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ANIMALS THAT SWIM - WORKSHY NEW CD
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Item specifics
- Condition
- CD Grading
- Mint (M)
- Title
- WORKSHY
- eBay Category
- CDs > Pop
- UPC
- Does not apply
- Artist
- Animals That Swim
- Format
- CD
- Record Label
- One Little Indian
- Release Year
- 1995
- Release Title
- Workshy
- Genre
- Rock
About this product
Product Identifiers
Record Label
One Little Indian
UPC
5016958996468
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2321208816
Product Key Features
Artist
Animals That Swim
Format
CD
Release Year
1995
Release Title
Workshy
Genre
Rock
Additional Product Features
Distribution
Orchard (Distributor)
Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
USA
Additional information
WORKSHY was released in 1994 in the United Kingdom and Europe. Animals That Swim: Hank Starrs, Hugh Barker, Del Crabtree, Al Barker, Anthony Coote. Look at the back cover and you'd be forgiven for thinking this is fairly obvious indie rock from the early '90s. With the collage of photos from various sources (underground comics, random snapshots, bits of videos and TV broadcasts) and the handwritten song list, if anything, it resembles the artwork on Trumans Water albums (and indeed, Animals were English labelmates with that fine collective). Give it a listen, however, and there's something else going on here -- something just that much more elegant without being precious, something more nakedly emotional without being emo. The opening track, "How to Make a Chandelier," goes through about three tempo changes instead of math rock's vocals; the swaying punch feels more akin to a roughed-up Tindersticks or a gently arty Factory band from the early '80s. Similarly, the understated drive of "Smooth Steps," with a piano as prominent as the guitar chug, and the Orbison-tribute "Roy," with a spoken-sung verse descended from Lou Reed and Tom Waits, but accented in U.K. terms with more of a slightly bemused croon, defeat expectations. If connections are to be made, perhaps the contemporaneous Irish band Whipping Boy with less guitar heroics could be suggested, or a hint of Leonard Cohen with a softer touch but without any less of the questioning or pondering. The trumpet is bold throughout the album, further accentuating ATS's individuality in a rock world that had gone Nirvana-mad on the one hand and incipiently Britpop on the other. Some songs have a cryptic, strange violence to them, such as "St. Francis," while others, such as the beautiful and blue "King Beer," combine feeling with wry wit (as when a character asks the song's narrator "Didn't you get that from some old hippie song?") as an organ adds to the late-night feeling. ~ Ned Raggett
Reviews
NME (Magazine) (12/24-31/94, p.22) - Ranked #15 in NME's list of the `Top 50 Albums Of 1994' - "...proceeded down Singular St before offering up this inspired collection of bucolic whimsy. But WORKSHY's prodigious reserves of wit and emotional candour beg serious comparisons with bigger fish..."
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