New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Today, Montreal�s Plants and Animals premiere a live video for their single "Stay" via FLOOD Magazine.
The video was captured at Mixart studios and was directed by Joe Yarmush from the Montreal based-band Suuns. "Playing this song is like a bull ride or getting a new puppy and trying to play it cool while it drags you around like a moth on a hot lightbulb, knocking over people�s drinks and children," Matthew Woodley told FLOOD Magazine. "You�ve got el mariachi guitar guy hyper strumming, the drummer on the other side of the time-space continuum playing a dub reggae beat, and the other guitar playing the part of Hephaestus, son of Zeus and Hera, making laser hammers in his volcano shop. The singer becomes unbound�reenacting the emotional journey of the bull before, during and after the rodeo. The backup singer is the graceful ego to his raging id. The bass is the true bond. It�s an aircraft carrier. An oil rig pumping unrefined love from the core of the Earth and shooting it into the sky in an infinite explosion of blood reds, supernova yellows and neon night blues. That�s more or less how it feels from the drum throne."
Eight years after their debut album Parc Avenue (2008), Montreal based and Polaris-Prize nominated artist Plants and Animals� newest evolution, Waltzed in from the Rumbling, is set for release April 29 on Secret City Records. Similarly recorded to tape, the new album embodies the raw musicianship characteristic of the group, while injecting symphonic crescendos, lyrical balladry, and metamorphic song developments. This is Plants and Animals' most soulful and inventive collection of music yet. Eleven soundtracks fit to accompany leaps taken, ships sailed, dark water and pink skies.
Previously, the band premiered their single "No Worries Gonna Find Us" with KEXP, who called the song "as enjoyable and unhurried of an anthem you�re likely to find in 2016." Watch the official video for "Stay" via Brooklyn Vegan.
Since their most recent LP, The End of That (2012), the members of Plants and Animals have begun families and took the time to slow down. Intentionally removing time constraints from their process, the group sought to reconnect with the honesty and autonomy of music created without pressure. "It was more like an art studio than a recording studio," says lead vocalist Warren Spicer. "A mess, pieces of songs all over the place. We had this big canvas and were constantly filling in corners here, erasing there, repainting that part, standing back and looking at the whole picture to see what we had." The time taken to write the album is reflected in climactic progressions within each song. Rather than a single frame, they give you the length of the horizon. Rather than a glimpse�they give you a vision.
The influences of the new LP are far and wide: the broken soul of Van Morrison; the off-kilter geometry of J Dilla; the dark, French funk of Serge Gainsbourg; the fire of John Coltrane's quartet; Messiaen's synaesthesia; the quirk of
Angelo Badalamenti. The result is pure Plants and Animals, wide open with room to move.
Plants and Animals are a Montreal-based trio that began playing together as kids, emerged on the international scene in 2008 and have developed a varied cult following ever since; built on the shoulders of their self-produced records, their intense live show, or both�depending on who you ask. They have been nominated for big awards. They have appeared on major radio and television programs. They have opened for household names and headlined many tours of their own around North
America and Europe.
WALTZED IN FROM THE RUMBLING TRACKLIST
1. We Were One
2. No Worries Gonna Find Us
3. Fata Morgana
4. Stay
5. All Of The Time
6. So Many Nights
7. Flowers
8. Je voulais te dire
9. Off The Water
10 Johnny Is A Drummer
11. Pure Heart
TOUR DATES:
5/6: Winooski, VT - Waking Windows
Music & Arts Festival
5/10: Washington, DC - DC9
5/11: Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda�s
5/13: Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade
5/14: Boston, MA - Great Scott
5/17: Pittsburgh, PA - Club Cafe
5/18: Louisville, KY - Zanzabar
5/19: Columbus, OH - The Basement
5/31: London, UK - The Hoxton
6/2: Paris, FR - Espace B
6/5: Toronto, ON - Field Trip
6/8: Chicago, IL - Schubas
6/9: Minneapolis, MN - 7th St. Entry
6/10: Winnipeg, MB - The Good Will Social Club
6/11: Saskatoon, SK - Amigo�s
6/13: Edmonton, AB - Starlite Room
6/14: Calgary, AB - Marquee Room
6/15: Nelson, BC - Spiritbar at the Hume Hotel
6/16: Vancouver, BC - The Imperial Theatre
6/17: Victoria, BC - Sugar Nightclub
6/18: Seattle, WA - Sunset Tavern
6/21: Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
6/23: San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
6/24: Los Angeles, CA - Bootleg Theater
