By Scott Jeffrey
The Montréal-based band Plants and Animals, have come out with another sexy rock LP, this one entitled The End of That. These guys fall somewhere between a dirty rock jam band and indie rock champions. The new disc stacked up as follows:
2010, the opening track is not without its share of epic rock sound. It’s a really tight classic rock sound, heavy guitars that sound like they should be in a zeppelin song, and powerful vocals. It is a great track.
Were some of Plants and Animals, earlier releases featured a more pop sound was trying to come out this one seems to be all rock. It seems like they’ve finally captured their sound on this, their third record.
Song For Love, this has a really deep rock ballad feel to it and sounds partially like David Bowie and the wallflowers in one song. I think a lot of bowie sound comes from the harmony parts. Where is Jacob Dylan qualities shine through during the cleverly constructed verses.
The title track is sort of a roots rock. It’s a happy tune and it just bleeds of summer love and wrangler jeans. A country sounding guitar and female backing vocals give it a folky swoon.
A track that is getting a lot of talk is Crisis! Most of this I would say comes from the really cool blues riff that keeps on throughout the song. It’s rare to hear a song done in this style. It’s sort of an old spoken word blues. It’s dirty and it’s gritty a truly unique track on this album, and stacked up against some other stuff out there today.
I really enjoyed Lightshow. It reminded me quite a bit of Ben Harper and the relentless seven. Really bluesy guitar bridges, and great vocals on this track. I really like how they mixed it in so many layers as the track builds, you can tell that there is a lot of thought put into each part.
7.5/10
Take away thought: I was unsure of what to expect out of this. I was certainly not expecting such a rock/blues sound. These guys are actually really talented and definitely worth a look.
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