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	John Parish How Animals Move Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock Starting with the aching, forlorn solo violin of Clare Mactaggart on "Absolute Beauty Is an Absolute Curse" and winding its way slowly through 13 songs, How Animals Move is filled with melodies that are by turns childlike ... more » « less
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All Artists: John Parish
Title: How Animals Move
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Thrill Jockey
Release Date: 9/10/2002
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Style: Indie & Lo-Fi
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 790377011029, 766481876328

Synopsis

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Starting with the aching, forlorn solo violin of Clare Mactaggart on "Absolute Beauty Is an Absolute Curse" and winding its way slowly through 13 songs, How Animals Move is filled with melodies that are by turns childlike and melancholy. Tunes move at a languid pace, interspersed periodically with monotone vocals (Does De Wolf on "Shrunken Man") and narrations (David Donahue on "Bernadette") that add emotional blankness and resignation. The title cut lurches about as if played by a slightly drunken but stately mariachi band, while "Florida Recount" ends with a high-pitched, dissonant wail over somber guitar chords. The final selection, a bawdy "Airplane Blues" sung with ripe fervor by PJ Harvey, stands in stark contrast to the other music on the disc. Her passionate delivery, sung with tongue held lustily in cheek, virtually explodes with life-affirming emotions. --Wally Shoup

CD Reviews

Great Album

Edtron | Washington, DC | 11/19/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"The album is one of my favorites. I compare it to like a loose mogwai and kinda in the vein of godspeed you black emperor, only I think it survived the death of that slow swelling post-rock genre. It's great on so many levels, for one it's more of a grouping of several songs which are largely experiments with loose song structure and uncommon instrument arrangements/sampling, save a few of the more concrete songs. How Animals Move (and the solo violin version) being one of the more concrete songs, is an amazing and well composed swelling/emotional/moving song. The low fi recording style/sound is very interesting and amazing in itself (over-reverbed violin solo song and sampling on several songs). This is a very unconventional album and definitely worth a listen!"