Description

Animator, opens with Montuno, a 9-minute account of a hallucination about the repetition of days, the split seconds that define us, and the strangeness of the certainty of death.

Theres something almost supernatural to the feel of this album: Animator is supposed to be some weird resuscitation. The animators job is to create the semblance of movement in things that cannot move themselves. The musicians is to make us feel like something is happening with a sound, explains singer and multi-instrumentalist Jessie Stein.

Recorded and produced at the Treatment Room by band member and experimental brass player Pietro Amato, and mixed by Jace Lasek of The Besnard Lakes at his Breakglass Studios in the bands hometown of Montreal, Animator is a cathartic sophisticated collection of songs.

As melodically compelling as it is artistically rich, Animator is intuitive, seductive, moody and textural. It slowly unfolds its beauty and trusts the listener to stay with it.