Plants and Animals – Parc Avenue
admin on Mar 4th 2008
Having grabbed Plants and Animals’ new album the second I saw it, last year’s With/Avec EP is starting to feel like a discovery that’s still paying off. Where ‘Faerie Dance’ was the standout track on the latter release, their full-length debut sees the band raising their game substantially, ensuring that such quality is matched throughout Parc Avenue.
With a refreshing lack of ‘buzz’ surrounding them, Plants and Animals make for a pleasant surprise, their songs breeze by with each one turning out insightful observations wrapped in warm, easy-going melodies. And bless them, being from Montreal, they’re unlikely to escape the Arcade Fire comparisons but at the same time, there is enough here for evalautions through contrast not to be of any concern for them. Arguably the defining characteristic of Plants and Animals’ sound, Spicer’s vocals are far too gentle to get bogged down in overwrought bedroom melodrama; instead the songs’ subtle, impressively guided arrangements race away, unfettered, not waiting for anyone to follow.
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