Animal Boy
General
| Feb 2010
Reviews
Rachel Hamburg
Reviewed 2010-03-21
Reviewed 2010-03-21
Produced multi-instrumental, acoustic alt-pop. Matt the Electrician really is an electrician, but he also plays almost every instrument on this album, and he plays them very well. Male vox with occasional fem harmonies, acoustic guitar, glockenspiel, horns, harmonica. THIS IS LIKE CANDY– super, super sweet (occasionally too cute, like a kid’s album), and emotionally pretty simple, but if you are in the mood, this guy will try as hard as he possibly can to make you really, really happy. He made me really happy. Yay! (Quirky people, use this one to seduce each other.)
Try 2, 3, 5, 6, 9.
1. Horn, ukulele, glock. Sweet/cute tenor ballad. Epically sweet towards the end. 2. Super uplifting, upbeat, drum/electric guitar and humming. 3. Fun, plinky guitar love song. Whistling. 4. Merry anti-college anthem. Wow. So cute. Horrifyingly cute. 5. AHH, catchy falsetto, love song, lyrics all about MATH. Sounds different from the rest of the album but wonderful. 6. The guitar really sounds like rain. 7. Fun, slow guitar song about childhood eating habits. 8. Song about a women who helped him fix his car at Walmart. This one is maybe too cute. 9. Harmonica, acoustic guitar, piano, male and fem vox. Super catchy. 10. Marvelously merry picked guitar accompaniment to mid-tempo male vox with fem harmonies. 11. Horn, acoustic guitar. So catchy. Wonderful build. 12. Pulsing percussion at first. Uptempo, horn, fun fuzziness.
Try 2, 3, 5, 6, 9.
1. Horn, ukulele, glock. Sweet/cute tenor ballad. Epically sweet towards the end. 2. Super uplifting, upbeat, drum/electric guitar and humming. 3. Fun, plinky guitar love song. Whistling. 4. Merry anti-college anthem. Wow. So cute. Horrifyingly cute. 5. AHH, catchy falsetto, love song, lyrics all about MATH. Sounds different from the rest of the album but wonderful. 6. The guitar really sounds like rain. 7. Fun, slow guitar song about childhood eating habits. 8. Song about a women who helped him fix his car at Walmart. This one is maybe too cute. 9. Harmonica, acoustic guitar, piano, male and fem vox. Super catchy. 10. Marvelously merry picked guitar accompaniment to mid-tempo male vox with fem harmonies. 11. Horn, acoustic guitar. So catchy. Wonderful build. 12. Pulsing percussion at first. Uptempo, horn, fun fuzziness.
Recent airplay
Divided By 13
Music Casserole — Oct 12, 2013
Osaka In The Rain
Music Casserole [SSP edition] — Jun 10, 2010
Loma Prieta
Music Casserole — May 15, 2010
Osaka In The Rain
Time Traveler — May 07, 2010
Osaka In The Rain
Time Traveler — Apr 30, 2010
Divided By 13
Lyric Ballads/Spider Rave — Apr 21, 2010
Charting
2010-03-21 — 2010-05-23
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| May 16 | 1 |
| May 9 | 1 |
| May 2 | 1 |
| Apr 25 | 1 |
| Apr 18 | 2 |
| Apr 11 | 1 |
| Apr 4 | 3 |
| Mar 28 | 3 |
Track listing
| 1. | Faithfully | ||
| 2. | Bridge To Nowhere | ||
| 3. | Got Your Back | ||
| 4. | College | ||
| 5. | Divided By 13 | ||
| 6. | Osaka In The Rain | ||
| 7. | Animal Boy | ||
| 8. | For Angela | ||
| 9. | Keep It There | ||
| 10. | Loma Prieta | ||
| 11. | What's So Funny | ||
| 12. | Permanent Record |