Animal is an instinctively playful and curious beast, nuzzling its way through a variety of styles with a genuine sense of fun and adventure. A clever, wild and overwhelmingly adorable animal that thrives on the sheer joy of making music.
What makes Animal such a success is the devotion that Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay have put into the project.
Between its playful, retro-electro settings and the murky presentiments of Marling’s allusive lyrics, Animal paints outside the lines of LUMP’s debut carefully, never suffocating the intuitive strangeness at its heart.
Animal is a multifaceted, ambitious record that seems to be fascinated with the more violent, primal side to fame. Marling and Lindsey have clearly refined their sonic palette more than the self-titled predecessor, which has resulted in a beautiful, detailed mixture of electronic and acoustic elements.
There's a slight hollowness in its bones, a coldness under its skin, and the experimental splices are sometimes a bit too obvious, but Animal admirably slips standard musical taxonomy to take on a life of its own.
It's not exactly a shoo-in for the 6 Music playlist, and yet here's the odd thing about Animal: wherever you care to drop the needle or let the shuffle button take you, the essence of this collaboration and the velocity of its execution somehow hoovers you up and brings you along.
Even though Animal has some second-half fits and starts, the album’s opening salvo and last half highlights place the album squarely in the running for year-end best of lists.
Animal is a beast worthy of its own spotlight and attentions.
It’s a natural progression from that self-titled debut, but this time it feels like a more coherent record .... Animal is more of a fully formed album rather than a mood piece.
Across ‘Animal,’ something seems to be missing, as a whole it’s great, but parts don’t quite seem to grasp the same excitement their self-titled debut did.
Animal is a certain departure from their day jobs, revealing a psychoanalytical influenced, half sweet, half gothic offering.
LUMP is a strange, unusual product. Prior to its creation in June 2016, its two members, folk legend Laura Marling and producer Mike Lindsay of folktronica outfit Tunng, barely knew each other, yet it did not end up being a one-off sideshow and their 2018 self-titled debut album will not end up being their last either. Animal not only reaffirms that the two have undeniable chemistry, but also shows that there is more than one dimension to this pairing. When I learnt that LUMP were making a ... read more
I want Donda to be my 300th review.
This is amazing. But it's Laura so is anyone shocked?
'Paradise' is a wonderful song. Perfectly captures a whole essence of this album.
LUMP's sophomore effort realizes the potential of their hypnotizing debut and effectively creates THE most creative and colorful art-pop/folktronica record of the past decade. "Animal" somehow manages to be the magnum-opus in both of these incredibly respected artists' lengthy and impressive discographies.
LUMP is the collaboration between iconic singer-songwriter Laura Marling and pioneering producer well-known for his work for Tunng, Mike Lindsay. Laura Marling is fresh off the ... read more
O grupo é formado da união do produtor pouco conhecido Mike Lindsay, caracterizado por sua roupagem folktrônica, e da brilhante liricista e intérprete country Laura Marling. Apesar disso, quando combinados, o som que esses dois criam não é nada habitual ou ordinário para eles. LUMP é a extrapolação e a “deslimitação” da mente criativa de ambos os artistas; é, portanto, a mais pura liberdade de ... read more
laura’s voice has a uniquely comforting and hypnotic quality, which works so well in context of the gorgeous instrumentals they’ve built around it.
favourite tracks: animal, paradise, hair on the pillow, we cannot resist
1 | Bloom At Night 5:19 | 83 |
2 | Gamma Ray 5:26 | 82 |
3 | Animal 4:37 | 88 |
4 | Climb Every Wall 4:37 | 81 |
5 | Red Snakes 4:37 | 84 |
6 | Paradise 4:33 | 86 |
7 | Hair On the Pillow 1:40 | 76 |
8 | We Cannot Resist 4:45 | 86 |
9 | Oberon 2:09 | 79 |
10 | Phantom Limb 6:35 | 84 |
#10 | / | Under the Radar |
#15 | / | NBHAP |
#43 | / | Rough Trade (UK) |
#46 | / | Louder Than War |
#59 | / | God Is In The TV |