(MOM AND POP RECORDS; 2012)
The lead single to the new Animal Kingdom album, “Get Away With It,” suckered me in and, as I’d read nice things about the band, I thought… “Why Not?” Well… hows’bout I am not a little girl or an old woman or an emotionally fragile 20-something in need of a hug?
The album’s lead track, “The Wave,” actually had me thinking that I was in for a real treat! With “Get Away With It” (and how apt a title that proved to be) up next, I was really starting to get into THE LOOKING AWAY! Song number three, “Strange Attractor,” had a freaky, cloying vibe – kinda like that annoying Bruno Mars song (pick one, they all pretty much fit the bill). Still, it was only one song out of three, right? But “Straw Man” was worse! However, I was bound and determined to stick this thing out and find the good hiding amongst the goo! “Skipping Disc” and “Glass House” had me checking to make sure someone hadn’t slipped me a mickey in the form of that twit, the Bieb. “No,” I thought, “That can’t be it. Even the Bieb has more balls than this!” I’m fairly certain that somewhere toward the middle of “Glass House,” I started to lactate. I managed to make it through “The Art of Tuning Out,” something which I became adept at early on in the tune.
Even if I was concerned about looking hip and “with it,” there is absolutely no way on earth that I would ever sink low enough to listen to THE LOOKING AWAY again! Besides, I thought the government outlawed this kind of torture.