Former Animals Album Release Party

Former Animals have resurfaced and released a four-track EP on April Fool’s Day, breaking a 10-year gap since their last release.

The math rock band’s album DUCKBEAROTTER is filled with entrancing tapping sections, lush bass lines and energetic grooves that could only be achieved when making music with close friends. Despite not making music together for a decade, the group says it wasn’t difficult to get the creative juices going. “We have a really natural sense of creating music together,” Lopez observed.

And it shows in their newest release. The songs were tracked with Ira Skinner at Alley Avenue Studios and then mixed by Sacramento mixing engineer Patrick Hills of Earthtone Studios.

“He is a Sacramento legend,” Lopez noted of Hills. “Everyone who’s ever worked with him knows it. All hail to Patrick, Earthtone Studios.”

And Hills is impressed by Former Animals. “They have an extensive color palette of sounds,” Hills said of them. “Lots of pedal use transported me back to 2004, when guitar players were getting more experimental and trying to get the instrument to almost sound like anything other than guitar.”

Former Animals (Sac mathrock + hotassbeatclaps)
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https://www.facebook.com/thespeedofsoundinseawater/
https://tsosis.bandcamp.com/album/second-nature

Please. Please. (San Fran indie sweethearts)
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https://pleasepleasesf.bandcamp.com/

Gentlemen Surfer (Sac psychic riff puzzle wizards)
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