After sharing the mini-album Weft in January, Blue Lake’s Jason Dungan has introduced his subsequent studio LP. Out October 3 by way of Tonal Union, The Animal is the Copenhagen-based musician’s correct follow-up to to 2023’s Sun Arcs and his first challenge recorded with a full band in a studio. The album was produced by Dungan and Aske Zidore and combined by War on Drugs collaborator Jeff Zeigler. Hear to guide single “Cut Paper” under.
“I’m fairly fascinated in fascinated about people extra as a part of the animal atmosphere and never as one thing that’s so separated right into a ‘human’ realm, or sitting on prime of a hierarchical pyramid,” Dungan mentioned of his new album’s title in a press assertion. “So the Animal can be me, or us—that we’re simply residing, current, in the identical approach as a chunk of moss or a sparrow or a cow.”
Dungan continued: “I don’t suppose it’s potential now to consider nature as a pure or remoted factor. Being round animals on this setting, I take into consideration how they impart with one another, forge relationships, and navigate the town, however all with out language. It’s not an expertise of nature which is bucolic and uncomplicated—it’s an expertise of nature and the animal world which is sure up in human exercise.”
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The Animal:
01 Circles
02 Minimize Paper
03 Berlin
04 Flowers for David
05 Seeds
06 Yarrow
07 Strand
08 The Animal
09 Vertical Maintain
10 To Learn
