Like Animals Again

This is one of the most interesting Vancouver bands right now. Their style is kind of progressive and reminds me a lot of the seventies, their melodies are both fun and energetic. Sometimes I even think of Zappa while listening to them, and when I saw them live I thought of Black Mountain. It shows these guys are well trained in music and they look comfortable toying with different genres.

Yes, I must admit I was impressed by their LIVE performance, they definetely sound better live than in the CD, maybe because you can enjoy more the instruments and their music is meant to be heard loud. The CD sounds more moody and melodic, the live performance is more psychedelic, loud and eclectic. There is jazz there, there is experimentation. But overall Like Animals Again is a really fun band to see playing LIVE. Their album is called Comfortable Dungeon, I have played it on The Morning After Show, the song Our Gods Repent with good results. I highly recommend it to the lovers of progressive music.

They use two vocalists, two keyboards and add a trumpet to the mix along with the guitar, bass and drums.

This is what we found in the internet:

Like Animals Again is a six-piece group based out of Vancouver, BC. Loosely categorized as “barock” (baroque/rock) The ensemble manages to tread new territory with each tune, from a dusty officers club in 1942, to the Grand Ole Opry filled with cowboys on psychedelics, and sensitive metal-heads.

*Comfortable Dungeon LP now available at cdbaby.com, Red Cat Records (4307 Main St. Vancouver, BC. 604-708-9422.) and Ark Clothing (2549 Main St. 604-872-1144)* Sounds Like A stampede of all sorts of animals coming at you at an astonishing fast speed.

Members Adam H: Songwriting, vocals, keys, and synth. Chris E: Bass. Daniel R: Drum kit. Matt L: Guitar. Lana P: Synth, vocal harmonies and percussion. Michelle F: Trumpet, vocal harmonies.

Like Animals Again breaks down social constructs as it does musical genre boundaries. In an almost seamless manner the band will mutate a baroque form until it thrashes unintelligibly like a feral rodent escaping the jaws of a predator. Like a child raised a fundamentalist christian in the doldrums of the suburbs; L.A.A. obsesses with deprogramming dated perspectives and rebuilds them with bizarre and colourful tapestries of organized sound, both consonant and dissonant. Thrashing Latin punk beats, swirling effects ridden synth melodies, Morricone-esque guitars (and trumpets) and baroque 3 part male/female vocal harmonies outline the distinct profile of Like Animals Again.

L.A.A. has played everywhere from the graveyard to Sled Island Festival, from the forest of the endowment lands of UBC, to the ‘ol stomping grounds of the Railway. After a playfully arduous 2 year effort, L.A.A. introduces their second release “Comfortable Dungeon.”

The album was presented along with Apollo Ghosts and Language Arts at Funky Winkerbeans.

Like Animals Again