• 1.1. peacockin' party
  • 1.2. girls love shoes
  • 1.3. shark attack!!!!!!!!!!
  • 1.4. zebra
  • 1.5. fall me in love
  • 1.6. sugartree
  • 1.7. freaky feedback blues
  • 2.1. magic summertime
  • 2.2. picnic
  • 2.3. longshot
  • 2.4. song for nancy
  • 2.5. ? take you home
05. Februar 2016
Label: MERGE
Genre: Indie

hughes, benji

songs in the key of animals

SONGS IN THE KEY OF ANIMALS

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SONGS IN THE KEY OF ANIMALS

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North Carolina's Benji Hughes fronted a rock band in the nineties. He's written commercial jingle. He's made music for film and television (Walk Hard, Eastbound & Down). He released 2008's A Love Extreme, his excellent double-LP debut record. But these ventures aren't different hats Hughes wears. They're not different paths traveled. This is Hughes playing in different keys. Now, for his first full-length on Merge, Benji Hughes is playing Songs in the Key of Animals. Recorded over two years mostly at Frisbie studios in New York, the record is 41 minutes of pop-music exploration. The album has a summertime immediacy but an evergreen resonance (see "Longshot"). It's clever but too deep for punchlines (check the excellent back and forth of "Picnic"). It ... read more