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Plants and Animals are a Canadian indie-rock band from Montreal, composed of guitarist-vocalists Warren Spicer and Nic Basque, and drummer-vocalist Matthew Woodley. They are signed to Secret City Records.
The first seeds of the band were originally planted on Canada’s salty-aired East Coast in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Young Warren C. Spicer and Matthew ‘the Woodman’ Woodley had begun playing together in high-school bands. The sea winds eventually carried them through the vast plains of Quebec to Montreal (a journey they would come to know intimately as the years wore on). It was in the now hallowed halls of Concordia University’s music department that they would come upon Nicolas Basque, a strange francophone native that shared their musical inclinations (and a trappeur’s finely-tuned taste in cuisine). It wasn’t until then that the three boys became men, signified their union with a name, and that Plants and Animals emerged from the wildlife.
In 2003 they bat out an instrumental menagerie of song-like folk-beasts, and put some of them to tape in the form of a recording that local label Ships at Night would later release. By 2005 the three young men were taming the sprawling wilderness of their sound and sculpting real songs, as Spicer also lead the way to a (hitherto unheard of) vocal domination of their material—as if he had been possessed by the ghost of some recently departed soul singer. During this time Spicer and Woodley would occasionally stop by to care for some of the neighbours—Timber, Socalled, and Katie Moore—and play. All the while, the Halifax-born were jamming and pruning with Basque, harnessing the band and its songs like a wild horse.
The first seeds of the band were originally planted on Canada’s salty-aired East Coast in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Young Warren C. Spicer and Matthew ‘the Woodman’ Woodley had begun playing together in high-school bands. The sea winds eventually carried them through the vast plains of Quebec to Montreal (a journey they would come to know intimately as the years wore on). It was in the now hallowed halls of Concordia University’s music department that they would come upon Nicolas Basque, a strange francophone native that shared their musical inclinations (and a trappeur’s finely-tuned taste in cuisine). It wasn’t until then that the three boys became men, signified their union with a name, and that Plants and Animals emerged from the wildlife.
In 2003 they bat out an instrumental menagerie of song-like folk-beasts, and put some of them to tape in the form of a recording that local label Ships at Night would later release. By 2005 the three young men were taming the sprawling wilderness of their sound and sculpting real songs, as Spicer also lead the way to a (hitherto unheard of) vocal domination of their material—as if he had been possessed by the ghost of some recently departed soul singer. During this time Spicer and Woodley would occasionally stop by to care for some of the neighbours—Timber, Socalled, and Katie Moore—and play. All the while, the Halifax-born were jamming and pruning with Basque, harnessing the band and its songs like a wild horse.
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Hayzi22 wrote:
Plants and Animals is my favorite.
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remmy77 wrote:
very nice music
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ar99 wrote:
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sper12 wrote:
Parc Avenue.It's a travesty that this album is not being lauded far and wide as the absolute masterpiece that it is. Breathtaking!
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soooz__ wrote:
incredible band, would love them to come to the UK :)
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lukeloseth wrote:
really really want to see these guys live
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Filosofem25 wrote:
woah! nice!
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kevinmt wrote:
everything this band touches is pure gold
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theanzie wrote:
YOU GUYS WERE AMAZING TONIGHT AT uOTTAWA!
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bronwyn_west wrote:
i was so close to these dudes at v-fest i almost got wacked with guitars a few times .. i think i caught sweat beads too.. it was pretty rad :P
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pensandonada wrote:
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elmocookies wrote:
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GumpyG wrote:
Saw them live w/ Patrick Watson the other day.. GREAT!
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rokara wrote:
rushing in rushing in rushing in
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Steph3nDedaluS wrote:
I heard "New Kind Of Love" through the Last.fm Recommended Radio and I just fell in love with those guys.
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http://www.myspace.com/diningwiththebolsheviksmusic
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FelipeHolguin wrote:
goooood
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porcelaingoo wrote:
me likey
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sponger01 wrote:
enjoyed em twice and primavera - great parc joan miro show
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