Songs in the Key of Animals Benji Hughes SKU: MRG551LP Barcode: 673855055114 17.00 £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Merge Released Date: 5th February 2016 Buying Format: 200g 1LP Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info North Carolina’s Benji Hughes fronted a rock band in the nineties. He’s written commercial jingle. He’s made music for film and television (Walk Hard, Eastbound & Down). He released 2008’s A Love Extreme, his excellent double-LP debut record. But these ventures aren’t different hats Hughes wears. They’re not different paths traveled. This is Hughes playing in different keys. Now, for his first full-length on Merge, Benji Hughes is playing Songs in the Key of Animals. Recorded over two years mostly at Frisbie studios in New York, the record is 41 minutes of pop-music exploration. The album has a summertime immediacy but an evergreen resonance (see “Longshot”). It’s clever but too deep for punchlines (check the excellent back and forth of “Picnic”). It is sincere (“Girls Love Shoes”) yet heartbreaking (“Song for Nancy”). It’s eccentric but never forced in its strangeness. It’s the kind of record that reminds us music can be fun without being empty. It’s an album full of peacocks and sharks and zebras and tigers, but ultimately, it’s about us. “People are animals,” Hughes says, “even if some people don’t want to admit it.” Songs in the Key of Animals taps into something beyond just intellect or trend or taste. It’s all about the feel, the connection between the player, the music, and the listener. Artist Benji Hughes Genre Rock And Pop Label Merge Buying Options 200g 1LP Includes Download Code Format 1LP , 200g , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings Peacockin’ Party Girls Love Shoes Shark Attack!!!!!!!!!! Zebra Fall Me in Love Sugartree Freaky Feedback Blues Magic Summertime Picnic Longshot Song for Nancy ? 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