319055

$15.00

Animal Bodies - Kiss of the Fang

Format: LP
Label: Sweating Tapes SWT 007
Year: 2011
Origin: Vancouver, British Columbia
Genre: electronic
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Value of Original Title: $15.00
Make Inquiry/purchase: email ryder@robertwilliston.com
Release Type: Albums
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Playlist: Experimental & Electronic, 2010's, British Columbia

Tracks

Side 1

Track Name
Heavy Hands
Maiden's Boil
Jungle Cathedral

Side 2

Track Name
Venus Transit
Fata Morgana
Thought & Consequence

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Information/Write-up

The duo behind Animal Bodies’ latest album couldn’t have come into being anywhere other than Vancouver’s DTES: the six-song 12″ pervades with the semi-lucid noise of addicts and wanderers.

Kiss Of The Fang plays largely within the darkwave genre, mixing cold post-punk synths and cakey ‘80s drum machine repetition, but these tropes are only responsible for the base layer of each track.

Bleak field recordings mix up the colour palette by injecting the unfriendly kind of East Van sounds into each track — heavily distorted seagulls squawking, and a woman smoking crack in the rain are more thematic touches than musical ones, but add a much-needed dimension.

Even though much of the content is harsh, the delivery is usually spot-on enough to make it work. “Jungle Cathedral” combines a remarkably catchy, dirty bass line with ethereal, haunting chanting that scratches the inside of your head like a bad drug trip must do.

Some of the synth work, especially on the last three tracks, can get repetitive, but the chilly guitar riffs sprinkled throughout the album give a good Joy Division head-rush. If you already live on Hastings, this record might be a little much, but if you’ve never had it rough, these dirty songs might be a good way to grime yourself up.
-Discorder

Limited edition of 200 copies

Artwork by Joao Machado
Recorded and Mixed by Animal Bodies and Phil Western in Czech Republic.

buy the album here: http://sweatingtapes.bandcamp.com/album/animal-bodies-kiss-of-the-fang

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