Plants and Animals

Plants and Animals have been playing together for 10 years. They began as an instrumental group. They recorded a self-titled record in 2002 with 15-minute songs. They played around Montreal for years, no vocals, heavy on the improvising. Warren started singing with other people, and soon enough he just couldn’t contain himself. Silence became oooohs, oooohs became words.

In 2008, a project two years in the making became Parc Avenue and they stepped out onto the circuit for the first time. It had guitars and drums and vocals, and orchestration out the wazoo. It was nominated for one Polaris prize, two Junos and three GAMIQs. They opened for Grizzly Bear in Montreal, and did their first tour with Wolf Parade. Danger Mouse got his paws on it and invited them to open for Gnarls Barkley, and later Broken Bells. The National invited them to open for them in Central Park. They headlined stages across North America and Europe.

In 2010, they released La La Land, a heavier, darker departure from Parc Avenue that has become a veritable cult favourite. They played over 100 shows that year, including a long US tour with Frightened Rabbit. To the Pitchfork Festival appearance the summer before, they added to the list such notables as Primavera in Barcelona, Bumbershoot in Seattle, End of the Road in the English countryside, a marquee spot at the Montreal Jazz Festival, and many more.

They're currently putting the finishing touches on their third full-length, due sometime early 2012.

Plants and Animals announce additional tour dates with Bombay Bicycle Club

Hell-bent on conquering the US, the never road-weary Plants and Animals have added more dates to an already busy tour schedule in support of their new album, The End of That. The band will support Bombay Bicycle Club for a week on the East Coast in late July prior to their hometown performance at Montreal’s Osheaga Festival. Their US tour kicked off in March with a whirlwind, successful week at SXSW, where the band commanded several packed houses, from dive bars on 6th street to the quiet confines of St. David’s Historic Sanctuary, proving Plants and Animals have the chops to win over any audience, no matter what the setting. The band plays sold-out shows in New York tonight at Mercury Lounge, and in Toronto on Saturday at Lee’s Palace.

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Plants and Animals release new video for "The End of That"

Earlier today, NPR Music premiered a brand new video from Plants and Animals for “The End of That”, the title track from the band’s recently released third album.

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Quick Before It Melts Review for The End of That

You know what else sounds sexier than malware? The new Plants and Animals album, The End of That.

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The Ontarion review for The End of That

As one might expect from any band’s third album, Montreal indie outfit Plants and Animals’ latest offering, The End of That, is of a more mature sound than its predecessors.

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Interview with Spill Magazine

Back on September 24, 2011, Plants and Animals played an intimate show in the live room at the Breakglass studio in Montreal. The show was part of the Pop Montreal festival, which the band first played at a few years ago when touring for the album Parc Avenue.

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Interview with Quartier Libre

Le son de ce troisième album est épuré, moins dense que les deux précédents. Il comporte encore un peu d’expérimentation sonore, mais également beaucoup de compositions acoustiques sans artifice.

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Interview with Parisian blog Pinkushion

The End of That pourrait finalement faire écho à une autre célèbre trilogie, celle western du maestro Sergio Leone, autre obsédé d’Americana. Après tout, il s’agit toujours de la même histoire, celle de l’homme confronté à une époque qui se termine.

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Voir review for The End of That

The End of That a un coeur, une âme et une poigne.

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Plants and Animals kick off tour!

Plants and Animals kick of their long North American spring tour tonight in Ottawa, in support of their new album The End of That. They continue to Quebec City and then a sold-out hometown show in Montreal on Saturday, before heading to Austin Texas for South by Southwest, where they'll take part in Secret City's official showcase. The tour then resumes on Canada's West Coast and will see the band criss cross both countries through April. Full tour dates are below, with ticket information and and other details available at plantsandanimals.ca:

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Paste premieres Lightshow music video

To celebrate yesterday's release of The End of That, Paste is premiering the new official music video for Lightshow.

The video is a collaboration between producer Doug Karr and director Mitchell Hart who work on visual media together in New York. Hart explains the video as a commentary on contemporary media consumption: "There's so much information coming at us at any given moment ... as a result we're moving further away from appreciating the specifics of any given piece of media." Hart used the actual multi-track recordings to generate large data sets based on the audio files. Each track was analyzed through a series of code snippets and plugins to get what you see on screen. "A true combination of data visualization and cinematic production make this video unique."

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