After the release of their ‘with/avec’ EP last summer, Montreal based trio Plants and Animals return this year with their debut UK album, ‘La La Land’. Their second studio album (debut LP ‘Parc Avenue’ was only available in North America), ‘La La Land’ will be released in the UK on September 13^th through Secret City. Having already pricked up the ears of North America’s most discerning critics, ‘The Mama Papa’ is the first single to be taken from the record.

With a penchant for recording on analogue tape, Plants and Animals’ records sound like they could have been made in 1972, but for all their warmth, it’s also impossible to deny how raw and recent the songs sound. New single ‘The Mama Papa’, released through Secret City on 2^nd August, is a case in point. With a nod to the motorik inspired rhythms of Remain in Light-era Talking Heads, the sound is undeniably that of a guitar band, but the tautness of the rhythms that drive the song nod as much to the band’s own love of afro beat as ruby in the dust, AM 70s rock.

The band received thunderous applause worldwide for their debut album Parc Avenue in 2008, which was nominated for Canada’s prestigious Polaris Prize and garnered praise from everyone from Pitchfork to Danger Mouse, who invited them to open for Gnarls Barkley.

Plants and Animals are Warren C. Spicer, Matthew ‘the Woodman’ Woodley and Nicolas Basque, two boyhood friends from Canada’s East Coast and a weird francophone native. As their name suggests, the band have been a creature of evolution from the start.

And here’s the video!

The Mama Papa by Plants and Animals from Secret City Records on Vimeo.

UK live dates:
August 5^th – The Lexington, London (w/ El Guincho)

August 7th – Standon Calling Festival, Hertfordshire