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ANIMAL FLAG – ” LP “

Posted: October 28, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Boston indie rock band Animal Flag have two new releases this month an album titled  LP that’s a compilation of tracks from their 2014 and 2015 albums, fully remastered and resequenced, and a music video for “Jealous Lover,” one of the singles on the album.

Frontman Matt Politoski wrote “Jealous Lover” and directed the music video. It’s a neat 2 and a half minutes, most of it left to interpretation. It’s haunting, edgy, and oh so good. I’ll let Matt explain the rest:

“To me that song has a lot of layers and tackles a bunch of shit. It touches on family dynamics, jealousy as an instinct, feminization of God against the normally “he-centric” interpretation of Christian scripture. In my opinion it’s kind of a blur of all of that. So I wanted the video to be just as vague but still express some sort of tragedy. The relationship between the two characters is vague (parent/child, lovers, siblings?), the tragedy itself is vague (accidental death?), but the one thing that is clear is grief. I don’t wanna sway anyone into interpreting the song or video as ONE thing so I like to leave it open.”

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LP was released October 7th via Broken World Media.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAthlieLjRw

Animal Flag are:
Sai Boddupalli: Guitar
Billy Centenaro: Guitar
Jesse Denaro: Drums
Jeff Kinsey: Bass
Alex Pickert: Drums
Matthew Politoski: Guitar, keys, vocals
Zach Weeks: Bass
Paige Chaplin: Vocals
Avery Ballotta: Violin
Chris Gooch: Banjo
Collin Pastore: Pedal steel

ANIMAL FLAG – ” Sensation “

Posted: September 27, 2016 in MUSIC
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Boston band Animal Flag, who appear on a recent compilation we found, while listening to their contribution that they are maybe the best live band in Boston right now. Now, the guitar-rock quartet are backing up the reputation with another type of compilation, this time in the shape of their self-titled debut album, out October 7th through Pittsburgh’s Broken World Media. The new LP will feature songs previously released digitally as Animal Flag’s 2014 EP, and last year’s EP 2, remastered and resequenced, and released on various formats (12-inch vinyl, cassette, CD, and digitally).

In advance of the release, the band has shared a remastered version of “Sensation”, which you can hear via the Broken World Media Bandcamp site

Singer, guitarist, and songwriter Matt Politoski breaks it all down in the note below, and clues us in on what to expect now and in the future:

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The songs on EP and also EP 2 were primarily recorded over the course of one week in May 2014 and were initially intended to be released as a full-length album. The rest of it was completed in early 2015 with the current lineup of the band. Because of member changes, botched tours, and other various inconveniences, the record was split in half and the cohesive album as a whole wasn’t fully realized until now.

I wrote all of the songs on LP when I was between the ages of 17 and 21. These songs are snapshots of a version of myself that I am not entirely proud of and I view it as a deeply flawed work. It is a messy first sketch, sprinkled with some cringe-worthy lyrics, questionable musical choices, and a barrage of beliefs which I clung to helplessly as a child. I shed my former self throughout the process of writing this album. Through the mess, I hope some sort of beauty or truth came to exist in the form of these songs.

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The history of Animal Flag has been a confusing one. The first Animal Flag record was a drone album made on my parents’ desktop computer in 2007. The genre shifted to folk for a handful of releases around 2010 followed by an electronic pop album out of the left field in 2013 (re-released under the moniker Bad Dreams), among others with different lineups and collaborators. For us, what is presented here as LP is the pivot point.

This current incarnation of the band is the final form of Animal Flag. We have been working on a completely new record to be released in 2017 which I feel is the first real representation of what the band has grown into over the past year and a half. If you have ever given a shit about Animal Flag and our music at any point over the past ten or so years, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. It only goes up from here.