January 8, 2012

Animals as Leaders (2009)


Truly an instrumental masterpiece, featuring some of the most amazing guitar work I've heard in a long time.

"Choosing a band name is like naming your child – it’s really hard. You can’t decide on anything and it’s super permanent and it molds the way people perceive your band. I was at the point where I was just like: ‘I’m going to call it something.’ I was reading this book called My Ishmael, which is the second book in a series by Daniel Quinn – it’s an anthropological cultural critique, and there are some concepts in there about the way we live on the planet versus the way primitive humans used to inhabit the earth. The name is loosely connotative of a lot of the ideas that are floating around in my head, but it’s not meant to be anything you’re supposed to pay too much attention to."