ANIMALS

The Pigs tunes are decent acoustic tracks beginning and ending the album. "Dogs" is great even though it runs a little long. "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" is surprisingly good considering there isn't a whole lot going on. "Sheep" is the shining moment on the album. Most concise and gets all of its ideas across best and maintains its own sense of direction best. The lyrical content of this album is great overall. There are a plethora of strange animal noises present, and they are oftentimes recorded or projected through voice boxes. The weirdest ones to me are the reciting of the Bible and the dog barking. That's where I just lose it. Also that verse of "Dogs (Three Different Ones)" where they start breathing in and out and in and out and then-HUHHHH. Nonetheless it's still all overall pretty great. All tracks here belong here with no filler. The only downfall is some of them are biting off more than they can chew. Shorten the lengths on these, and it'd probably be closer to 5 stars for me.

"A land of sheep, controlled by dogs, owned by pigs." -my black friend, 2014