Plants & Animals - Parc Avenue (CD)

PARC AVENUE is the hotly anticipated full-length debut from Montreal trio Plants and Animals, a sprawling opus that owes as much to the spirit of Nina Simone and Ali Farka Toure as it does to the epic sound of Montreal contemporaries Arcade Fire. Recorded entirely to analogue tape, from classic 70s guitar tones to folky ballads and sea shanties-turned-post-rock, Parc Avenue is a monumental release in the sense of rock and roll roots re-invented.