Escort - Animal Nature (2015)
Label: Escort Records | MP3 320 kbps CBR | 95:30 min | 220 mb
Disco, Funk
Label: Escort Records | MP3 320 kbps CBR | 95:30 min | 220 mb
Disco, Funk
Four years on from their debut album (though the band had been pumping out classic disco pomp singles since 2006), Escort finally has a new LP on the horizon. And much like the genre they love and emulate, "Animal Nature" mimics the sound of disco well after the disco market crashed at the end of the 1970s.
Which is to say, Escort reflects the sound of disco as it mutated into something leaner and sleeker. The big band sound they used previously, hearkening back to the Salsoul Orchestra and Kid Creole and the Coconuts, is stripped back entirely. Now Escort lean on banks of synths and drum machines to make their grooves, rather than the live drummer, horn section, and strings that previously defined their work. Sure, it's historically accurate, but what makes "Animal Nature" work is how the band uses a cooler, "less than human" sound palette; it evokes neon, latex, and slick surfaces, actually warming Adeline Michele's voice by a few degrees. So when she sings about her "animal nature," it strikes the perfect balance between the increasingly mechanistic and the primal urge just under the skin.
Tracklist:
01. Body Talk (4:39)
02. Temptation (3:35)
03. Barbarians (3:15)
04. If You Say So (4:25)
05. Helium (4:48)
06. Animal Nature (4:29)
07. My Life (3:28)
08. Actor Out of Work (3:25)
09. Cabaret (3:17)
10. Dancer (6:20)
11. Barbarians (Tiger and Woods Remix) (7:12)
12. Helium (Escort Pressure Dub) (3:22)
13. Body Talk (Escort Dub) (6:38)
14. Animal Nature (Escort Edit) (4:24)
15. If You Say So (Morgan Geist Remix) (6:03)
16. Temptation (Darshan Jesrani Dub) (7:20)
17. My Life (Escort Edit) (4:38)
18. Cabaret (Little Boots Remix) (8:35)
19. Actor Out of Work (JKriv Remix) (5:37)