Animals that Swim.....

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.