Home By Now by The Animators

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Quirky | Acoustic

11 tracks | 50 minutes

Released Jun 2003
on Angelhouse East

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The Animators blend acoustic instruments and vocal harmonies with electronic textures and beats, creating modern pop songs that work like short stories.

Editorial review

The debut record from Brooklyn-based indie rockers the Animators is an impressive one: Devon Copley and Alex Wong, though only a duo, achieve a rich, multi-layered sound that covers an impressive breadth of sonic and emotional range. At heart they are a power pop band, whimsical and a touch precious, and Home By Now marries these instincts to smart writing and pristine production. "Perfect World," which could easily be mistaken for a Toad the Wet Sprocket album track, exemplifies the latter with its marvelous arrangement, the song being massaged rather than overladen. "Medicine" stands out as well, capturing perfectly the feel of 1981 power pop, and "Girl #3" offers a poetic oversight of an alienating and alienated relationship in its use of astronomy as a metaphor for emotional distance. But the whimsicality fails on the self-deprecating "Better Not Say" and the borderline-condescending "Simple," which isn't the term of endearment its authors want it to be. Copley and Wang make excellent choices throughout the album in their instrumentation and production, sprinkling in unexpected elements like Gil Evans-inspired horns on "If Only" and a downright pugnacious vocal on the intelligently aggressive "Rearrange." The Animators offer a unique and inspired approach with Home By Now, evoking the Shins as filtered through Toad the Wet Sprocket's rock ambitions, and certainly worth citing as one of the better indie pop albums of the early 2000s. ~ Joseph McCombs, All Music Guide

Bio / Background

"Truly Great" -- Filter Magazine

Combining the craft of singer-songwriters like Peter Gabriel with the skills and modern sensibilities of production wizards like the Neptunes, the Animators create a wide variety of consistently engaging pop songs. Together only since November of 2001, the bi-coastal duo has already staked out a musical landscape all their own.

The Animators bring life to their songs in two very different ways. In the studio their goal is to find each song's "natural habitat," employing everything from urban-style rhythm tracks to muted trombones to overdriven Fenders. But the live show strips the same songs down to two vocals, acoustic guitar and accordion, with textures and beats supplied by an iBook. The Animators deliver the goods in both settings, a testiment to their strong songwriting.