If you’ve visited the Secret City site at all in the past month or so, you know how excited we are about today and the release of Plants and Animals‘ La La Land. Well that’s today. The album is available on CD and LP format in stores across North America, or directly from us. And of course it’s also available at fine digital stores. The iTunes version in Canada and the USA also features a pretty slamming alternate version of “The Mama Papa”.
The band starts their massive North American tour tonight in Toronto with a free show at the Horseshoe. They’re hitting a ton of cities across the continent, but regardless of where you are you can tune in tonight at 10:30pm for a live stream of the the show courtresy of LiveStream. We’ll be embedding the show here, on plantsandanimals.ca, and you’ll be allow to integrate it with Twitter and Facebook as well.
Here are just a few things people are saying about La La Land:
“Psychedelic, amplified and momentous, songs are multifaceted, with a sense of Radiohead importance, Arcade Fire intensity and très cool dirty-basement rock and roll (“American Idol” gets my vote as the missing link between Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street).” – The Globe and Mail
“utterly thrilling while still retaining all the muted joy and gentle perfection of Parc Avenue … an album for the ages and Plants and Animals’ ultimate piece of work thus far” – Under the Radar
“rife with chiming bells, ebullient trumpet blasts, and whistled outros. It’s a bewitching record — a mix of soft-rock luster, classic-rock grit, and indie-rock dexterity — a sort of AM Gold for the dark-hearted.” – eMusic
“”By the time the amps stop ringing, you feel you’ve travelled through a cohesive, front-to-back, old-fashioned album, one that you probably wouldn’t be surprised to learn still got plenty of spins decades down the line.” – Blurt
