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CMU Approved
Approved: Strange Animals (SNAP Of The Day)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 8 October 2009
There’s plenty of promise in the collection of tracks on Strange Animals’ MySpace, ranging from the hypnotic, mainly instrumental repetitiveness of ‘The Fight’ to ‘A Good Songwriter’, which flips from hushed acoustic guitar to a slow paced electronic drum beat and looped electric guitar that’s been coarsely fed through an effects pedal. Imagine a singer-songwriter creating My Bloody Valentine songs, with the trick to many of the tracks lying in looping the same core sounds and gradually adding in other elements before fading out without any defined peak being reached. ‘I Don’t Think So!’ follows a similar construction, yet sounds far closer to American alt-rock band Pavement than the others, with the laid back vocal delivery and nodding rhythm abruptly ending the track. At times it can sound frustrating then, but there are too many good ideas afoot to get overly critical.
www.myspace.com/mystrangeanimals
