Plants and Animals - Parc AvenueRelease Date: 25/03/08
Label: Secret City Records
http://www.myspace.com/plantsandanimals
http://www.plantsandanimals.ca
I love it when an album comes along and blind sides you, which is exactly what happened when I first listened to Parc Avenue. In fact, I haven’t quite got over the initial impact, it has totally dominated my music playlist for over a week now, I just can’t stop listening to it. As you may have already gathered, I like this album, I like it a lot. End of the gush-fest.
Fundamentally Plants and Animals are a Canadian Jam Band made up of three core members. But, don’t let the words Jam Band put you off, they are more than that - They offer a hybrid of rock, folk, a pinch of jazz and a dollop of well crafted pop. They even roll out into an “Extra Golden afro-beat riddim” on closing track “Guru”. What makes them unique to most jam bands is there songs are not aimless or drawn out for the sake of it and they maintain the all important pop staple of the verse into chorus hooks.
"...the beauty of the earth and all the wonders that inhabits it..."
The album opens with the gospel sounding line “What’s gonna happen to you / you have woke up too soon / and found the world rearranged / and now your feelings have changed / say good bye to before / you‘re not welcome anymore…” could this be a comment on Religion or the lack of belief in this Apocalyptic era? Maybe? But, they go on to express that “we are all apart of one another…” and we should appreciate the beauty of the earth and all the wonders that inhabits it, before it’s too late. I agree.
These guys know how to have fun and their lyrics are mainly tongue ‘n cheek comments. At one point they can’t contain there laughter as they build up into a repetition of an increasingly funny pronunciation of the God fearing word “Mercy”. What’s wrong in taking the piss out of life, if anything, that’s how everyone should live, right? You get the sense that they really enjoy what they do and if that’s all that’s left, then, so be it.
Parc Avenue is a very pleasurable listen - Smiles guaranteed.
Sample Tracks:
Feedback in the Field
Faerie Dance
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