HAVE YOU HEARD GOLDEN ANIMALS YET?
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 THE WORD IS JUST STARTING TO SPREAD - MOJO, BLENDER, UNCUT, VENUS ZINE, BEARDED, DROWNED IN SOUND, THE GUARDIAN, ALL AGREE THAT "FREE YOUR MIND AND WIN A PONY" IS A TIMELESS CLASSIC.
DONT BE THE LAST ON YOUR BLOCK TO FREE YOUR MIND...
GOLDEN ANIMALS UNLEASH THEIR DEBUT ON HAPPY PARTS RECORDINGS AUGUST 26TH, 2008
"When they rock out in the faux-blues readymade "The Steady Roller," you can practically inhale the pungent aroma of their pirate shirts. They're a marriage made in psychedelic desert-blues heaven." Blender"unpolished sound from ghostly echoes of 60's West Coast Psychedelia 50's rock and roll and swampy old blues. They have a nice, semi-chaotic way about them" Mojo
"Their ragged eclecticism is a winning one, taking detours into slide country, beat up folk and starry desert ballads" Uncut
"Eisner's voice is deep, dark, and moving, like Johnny Cash's gruffness meeting Devendra Banhart's serenade, while Beecroft's croon is soft, light, and sweet. Though different as night and day, the twocombined in harmony strike a balance that is beautiful and haunting." Venuszine
"Golden Animals truly does sound dust-blown, leather-tethered, and sun-washed ala 1960s love children. Tommy has the lax slur of a cowboy and a startling vocal similarity to JIm Morrison. Morrison lives? Relish it like a 1960s frolicking naked hippie for a day and it'll wash the pain away." RCRD LBL
GOLDEN ANIMALS's are Tommy Eisner and Linda Beecroft, and their brand of West Coast indie Rock is built on austere beats, slide guitars and fuzzed-up California harmonies, produced by CHRIS COADY (TV ON THE RADIO, YEAH YEAH YEAHS, ENTRANCE) and mixed by THOM MONAHAN (PERNICE BROTHERS, DEVENDRA BANHART, LAVANDER DIAMOND). It's the sound they were born to make - if you believe the fortune-teller whose mysterious predictions were the catalyst for the formation of the band back in the day when their worlds collided in a cozy European Cafe, one very rainy evening. The band's chief inspiration is the blues,be it the foundation blues artists of the '20s and 30's or the interpretations of the genre created by Blue Cheer, Cream, The Mamas & the Papas, and Buckingham Nicks." Those early blues recordings are the fountain," they say. "Even in 200 years, people will find completely new ways to create all within those rules and algorithms."
"Make no mistake: this is psychedelic pop-rock for the flower generation, still going strong in 2008. It is pure old style California: all guitar driven attitude and bluesy stomp. Free Your Mind and Win a Pony has got all the hip-slung fun and holler of alt scene favourites, The White Stripes, but presents itself without dark edges." Bearded.com
"Psychedelic blues-rock, long on reverb and chugga-lugga drum/guitar rhythms okayed by the light of a baritone moon" Independent on Sunday "Delicately crafted songs such as such as Follow Me Down are interspersed with chugging psychedelic blues and infectious, mescalin-around-the-campfire feel." The Guardian
"Transcends the limitations of their rudimentary set up. Album highlight "Queen Mary (The Flop) features multiple tempo changes and builds to an electrifying frenzy which must go down a storm in a live setting. "Ride Easy" begins as a tender country plodder, but undertakes several detours with satisfying results" DrownedInSound.com
"An intense blend of scratchy blues riffs, woozy psych, and Walloped drums" NME
"They know how to riff with atomic force" Dazed and Confused
"They do thrive on the blues and this album is also absolutely and purely informed by the 60's; the psychedelic end that enjoyably rattles with progressive rock 'n roll moments. Golden Animals have
gone for refinement where other acts may have just opted for a pleasurable clatter" Music-Dash.co.uk
"Who thought that dusty, fusty rock and roll would be one of the sounds of the brave new 2008?" Lipster.com
"Unreconstructed late '60s/early '70s bluesy folk, stripped of all pretensions towards folktronica, nu folk or the freakish edge Devendra Banhart likes to sharpen, they might as well have fallen through a
timewarp from thirty odd years ago." Musicom.com
"The twinning of Tommy Eisner's (USA) guitars and Linda Beecroft's (Sweden) drums roll out tunes that get stuck in your throat with the catchiness of a fish bone." PlanetNotion.com
"Golden Animals are one of the most exciting acts to emerge this year." Planet Notion
"Golden Animals: have unleashed eleven tracks filled with solid blues guitar work that resembles The Doors and Cream, as well as 60s-era pop melodies reminiscent of The Zombies and The Beatles. Heavy guitar-driven tracks like "The Steady Roller" and "Queen Mary (The Flop)" sound straight out of the golden age of rock and roll rather than their origin in today's era of increasingly mixed, sampled and electronic music." Anthem
"Their music evokes a blend of sun-drenched psychedelic, acid-tinged blues-rock that calls to mind an era of music when folk, country, blues, and rocknroll could blend together. " Venuszine
"A timeless collection of tracks rooted in those who have influenced Golden Animals the most - from the Doors and the Grateful Dead to Fred McDowell - "Balancing their psychedelic folk, popularized by fellow artists like Devendra Banhart through his similar atmospheric and naturalistic sound with a modern blues edge." Aquarian
"If you like your rock dusty and your song-length escapes surreal, give Golden Animals a chance or two" I Guess I'm Floating
"As an experimental mash of yesteryear's sonic signatures and today's technological upgrades, Golden Animals' smoky effort is a timeless pleasure" Metromix
GOLDEN ANIMALS LIVE IN LA
Aug 12 2008, 10:00PM - Bordello w/ Winter Flowers! LA, California RECORD RELEAES DATE: Aug 26 2008, 9:00PM - The Echo w/ The Donkeys LA, California
Golden Animals "Free Your Mind And Win A Pony"
Album released 26th August 2008 on HappyParts Recordings
1.The Steady Roller
2.Queen Mary (The Flop)
3.Ride Easy
4.Try On Me
5.My My My
6.Follow Me Down
7.Turn You Round (Don't Let Nobody)
8.My Friend Bill
9.I Want You To Come
10.Alice
11.Darkness & Light
MySpace.com - GOLDEN ANIMALS - Southern, California - Rock / Blues / Psychedelic - www.myspace.com/goldenanimals
Free Your Mind And Win A Pony
 OUT August 26th 2008 HappyParts Recordings
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