Animals that Swim.....

1. Faded Glamour
2. Pink Carnations
3. The Longest Road
4. Roy
5. All Your Stars Are Out
6. Dirt
7. Smooth Steps
8. The Moon And The Mothership
9. East St. O'Neill
10. Madame Yevonde
11. 50 Dresses
12. Mackie's Wake
13. King Beer
14. 7 Days

Odd that "The Greenhouse" didn't make it onto the album, since it was a single (and a great one at that!).

If anyone can persuade Animals That Swim to reform and play in London, I am willing to buy them many, many pints.

If only I could join you in that effort. Only two albums (and a third if you collect their b-sides) but one of my all-time favorites. The horns - sometimes mournful, sometimes joyous - make this band sound so different. There's a Blue Aeroplanes vibe with the speak-sing delivery sometimes. I wish there was someone else operating in this territory. "7 Days", recounting the 10th, 20th, etc birthdays of one man never fails to bring a tear to my eye.

No wait! 3 albums - _Workshy_, their debut, was a used bin regular for years. _I Was The King_ came out in 97 and I thought that was the end but _Happiness From A Distant Star_ came out of nowhere 4 years later. If you can still find it, the best-of that came out a few years ago initially came with a bonus disc of non-lp stuff.

Anybody else remember?

They just shot right into my head. A blast from the past.

When I was all wrapped up in Yank knows best, all we in the UK was, Animals That Swim, MBV, lush, Wolfhounds , Swervedriver. And that was about it...

Animals that Swim have new material out in March 2011 - see animalsthatswim.wordpress.com

Good news. Hopefully

Holy crap, who knew they still existed?!

Finally hearing Happiness From A Distant Star, nice little album. New interview from a couple of weeks back:

http://finestkiss.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/back-from-their-distant-star-an-interview-with-animals-that-swim/

Still very surprised they're still active!

"Workshy" just got reissued with a bonus disc containing the demos of an aborted album and two b-sides including "Impossible", the flip of their debut single.

Thanks for mentioning that, I just ordered it and wouldn't have known about it otherwise.

The best of just sound-tracked an hour or so's Sunday afternoon ironing ... and sounded beautiful.

Right? They tap into some off-kilter beauty that is darkly joyous. Such a unique band.