the zoo, by arlo brooks and molly spear

the zoo

by arlo brooks and molly spear

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denim loafer A beautiful album. Listening to it feels like it encapsulates the love between Arlo and Molly. A dive through an ocean of 80s samples that seem vaguely familiar. This album is equally rewarding as background music while surfing the net, painting, walking, or cleaning as well as deep listening as many transitions are intentional and the album has much to break apart. A beautiful collage of audio.

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1.	side a 11:40	buy track
2.	side b 11:56	buy track
3.	side c 10:03	buy track

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developed over the course of a year, THE ZOO is an intensely personal amalgamation of musical reference and forms. composed of samples and snippets of demented radio, warped records, (mostly) unidentifiable samples, frantic keyboard beats, fractured guitars and wordless vocals. conceived when arlo solicited a large batch of youtube links from molly's past. he went to work over the course of months creating a collage monster of snipped youtube bits, his altered guitar/vox, effect pedal driven beats, and molly's manipulation of records and radio. side a is a disorienting mishmash of unpredictable source material, referencing 80's TV commercials, steel magnolias, desperate living, clifford, pippi longstocking, re-animator, and god knows what else. the sheer volume of samples in side a may overwhelm or put the listener in a state of mistaken nostalgia. side b continues the sample driven assault into a beat-and-drone based slab of danceable, utterly unpredictable and ever shifting madness. side c dips more heavily into the distorted and noisy process of redialing old bits of our media to recalibrate to a new dawn.

"ass to ass bust to bust eat my toejam and drink my snot love ya like a sister foreverf! <3 homies 4 lyf big dawgz in the dawgg pound woof woof acorn paste jelly roll half inside and half over there chomp chomp"

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released January 29, 2018

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