Smooth but sonorous, All Violet’s single ‘Animals Home’ pulls you right into a vortex of emotion refracted like a prism, a kaleidoscope channelling echoes of Pavement, Badly Drawn Boy, and The Goo Goo Dolls, the place the jangly edges of 90s alt-indie collide unapologetically with Americana twang. It’s a sound that settles deep in your chest whilst its earworm burrows relentlessly deeper, decided to make its residence everlasting.
Penned as a battle cry towards the rising company tide, dulling our minds and chaining us to cubicles, Animals Home is bathed in venomous vitriol spat at promoting overlords and the sportification of politics, questioning the existential malaise that comes from clock-watching and sleepwalking by means of life. With a hook that laments, “Is that this all it means to be alive? Busy counting sheep till you die,” the tune confronts fashionable existence’s psychological confinement head-on, pleading defiantly for one thing extra tangible than neon-lit consumerist illusions.
Anchored by satisfyingly slick riffs and lyrics sharp sufficient to pierce the facade of business consolation, ‘Animals Home’ leaves a lingering mark—a salve for anybody who’s bruised themselves making an attempt to decode life’s absurdities. All Violet, fronted fiercely by the enigmatic BT, ensures their indie-rock revolt resonates loud sufficient to crack company cages vast open.
‘Animals Home’ is now out there to stream on all main platforms, together with Spotify.
Overview by Amelia Vandergast
