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...
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Friday, 14 May 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Animals that Swim have new material out in March 2011 - see animalsthatswim.wordpress.com
― FadedGlamour, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Good news. Hopefully
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Holy crap, who knew they still existed?!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
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/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
Still very surprised they're still active!
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
"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.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 27 February 2017 22:52 (seven years ago) link
Thanks for mentioning that, I just ordered it and wouldn't have known about it otherwise.
― svend, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 01:44 (seven years ago) link
The best of just sound-tracked an hour or so's Sunday afternoon ironing ... and sounded beautiful.
― djh, Sunday, 10 February 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link
Right? They tap into some off-kilter beauty that is darkly joyous. Such a unique band.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 10 February 2019 19:24 (five years ago) link