Plants and Animals are a Canadian indie-rock band from Montreal, composed o… Read Full Bio ↴Plants and Animals are a Canadian indie-rock band from Montreal, composed of guitarist-vocalists Warren Spicer and Nic Basque, and drummer-vocalist Matthew 'the Woodman' Woodley. They are signed to Secret City Records.
The first seeds of the band were originally planted on Canada’s salty-aired East Coast in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Young Warren C. Spicer and Matthew ‘the Woodman’ Woodley had begun playing together in high-school bands. The sea winds eventually carried them through the vast plains of Quebec to Montreal (a journey they would come to know intimately as the years wore on). It was in the now hallowed halls of Concordia University’s music department that they would come upon Nicolas Basque, a strange francophone native that shared their musical inclinations (and a trappeur’s finely-tuned taste in cuisine). It wasn’t until then that the three boys became men, signified their union with a name, and that Plants and Animals emerged from the wildlife.
In 2003 they bat out an instrumental menagerie of song-like folk-beasts, and put some of them to tape in the form of a recording that local label Ships at Night would later release. By 2005 the three young men were taming the sprawling wilderness of their sound and sculpting real songs, as Spicer also lead the way to a (hitherto unheard of) vocal domination of their material—as if he had been possessed by the ghost of some recently departed soul singer. During this time Spicer and Woodley would occasionally stop by to care for some of the neighbours—Timber, Socalled, and Katie Moore—and play. All the while, the Halifax-born were jamming and pruning with Basque, harnessing the band and its songs like a wild horse. Some called it post-classic-rock. Some called it folk-prog. Those who knew better didn’t say anything at all.
In about the summer of 2005 they carried a 24-track Studer “bull” up the stairs of Spicer’s apartment and split their time between their new makeshift studio there (aka Le Carillon Tropical), and the Treatment Room. By fall 2006 the foundations of what would later become Parc Avenue were layed, the band was playing shows (and singing), and a relationship with Montreal label Secret City Records was formed. By summer 2007 the once-monster was complete, temporarily tamed, housed, and ready to be unleashed. While the band awaited the release of Parc Avenue, they kept busy touring in the US, Canada, and Iceland, working on their album art and recording with/avec EP that was released in Canada in October 2007.
Since Parc Avenue was released in early 2008 the band has played over 175 shows, circling the Western world more than once, including appearances at the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago, Primavera in Barcelona, Central Park Summer Stage with the National, and even one night in Columbus opening for Gnarls Barkley, after Danger Mouse discovered Parc Avenue and invited them out.
In January 2010 Plants and Animals announced their latest offering, La La Land, due out on April 20th on Secret City. The album was recorded at the band’s home-base studio in Montreal, The Treatment Room, and at Studio La Frette outside Paris, a brokedown old mansion filled with vintage gear and a killer board in the cellar instead of wine. Spicer says, “the Paris stuff is like a nice Bordeaux and the Montreal stuff is more like a baked potato. Sessions in Paris ended by 10pm, sessions in Montreal by 6am.” Rum and cokes supposedly inspired the initial Treatment Room sessions in late 2008. The album’s first track, “Tom Cruz,” eventually came out of these late nights. As the Woodman tells it, “it was December, pre-Christmas, so we fuelled the session with rum and cokes. They made us feel like Tom Cruise. It gave us killer smiles and made our enemies wither.”
The first seeds of the band were originally planted on Canada’s salty-aired East Coast in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Young Warren C. Spicer and Matthew ‘the Woodman’ Woodley had begun playing together in high-school bands. The sea winds eventually carried them through the vast plains of Quebec to Montreal (a journey they would come to know intimately as the years wore on). It was in the now hallowed halls of Concordia University’s music department that they would come upon Nicolas Basque, a strange francophone native that shared their musical inclinations (and a trappeur’s finely-tuned taste in cuisine). It wasn’t until then that the three boys became men, signified their union with a name, and that Plants and Animals emerged from the wildlife.
In 2003 they bat out an instrumental menagerie of song-like folk-beasts, and put some of them to tape in the form of a recording that local label Ships at Night would later release. By 2005 the three young men were taming the sprawling wilderness of their sound and sculpting real songs, as Spicer also lead the way to a (hitherto unheard of) vocal domination of their material—as if he had been possessed by the ghost of some recently departed soul singer. During this time Spicer and Woodley would occasionally stop by to care for some of the neighbours—Timber, Socalled, and Katie Moore—and play. All the while, the Halifax-born were jamming and pruning with Basque, harnessing the band and its songs like a wild horse. Some called it post-classic-rock. Some called it folk-prog. Those who knew better didn’t say anything at all.
In about the summer of 2005 they carried a 24-track Studer “bull” up the stairs of Spicer’s apartment and split their time between their new makeshift studio there (aka Le Carillon Tropical), and the Treatment Room. By fall 2006 the foundations of what would later become Parc Avenue were layed, the band was playing shows (and singing), and a relationship with Montreal label Secret City Records was formed. By summer 2007 the once-monster was complete, temporarily tamed, housed, and ready to be unleashed. While the band awaited the release of Parc Avenue, they kept busy touring in the US, Canada, and Iceland, working on their album art and recording with/avec EP that was released in Canada in October 2007.
Since Parc Avenue was released in early 2008 the band has played over 175 shows, circling the Western world more than once, including appearances at the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago, Primavera in Barcelona, Central Park Summer Stage with the National, and even one night in Columbus opening for Gnarls Barkley, after Danger Mouse discovered Parc Avenue and invited them out.
In January 2010 Plants and Animals announced their latest offering, La La Land, due out on April 20th on Secret City. The album was recorded at the band’s home-base studio in Montreal, The Treatment Room, and at Studio La Frette outside Paris, a brokedown old mansion filled with vintage gear and a killer board in the cellar instead of wine. Spicer says, “the Paris stuff is like a nice Bordeaux and the Montreal stuff is more like a baked potato. Sessions in Paris ended by 10pm, sessions in Montreal by 6am.” Rum and cokes supposedly inspired the initial Treatment Room sessions in late 2008. The album’s first track, “Tom Cruz,” eventually came out of these late nights. As the Woodman tells it, “it was December, pre-Christmas, so we fuelled the session with rum and cokes. They made us feel like Tom Cruise. It gave us killer smiles and made our enemies wither.”
Lightshow
Plants and Animals Lyrics
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We have lyrics for these tracks by Plants and Animals:
2010 Разводит время по углам: Минута паузы — и в бой...…
Before Love me now and leave me in spring The sun done…
Bye Bye Bye What's gonna happen to you? You have woke up too soon And…
Cowboy Kill for food Cannibals in business suits When you wipe off …
Early In The Morning Early in the morning Before the kids have woken up We list…
Faerie Dance I thought I would know what to do when the…
Feedback in the Field (Whistling) I can feel the planets at work I can feel th…
Flowers Met a dancer who was high in a field from…
Game Shows Riding on that high, buzzing and talking loud All night lon…
Good Friend I wanna give I wanna give everything up for grabs I wann…
Guru My leader told me to jump in the river The river…
Jeans Jeans Jeans Out in the night Oh when I was young Holes in my…
Keep It Real Every week, oh no (Oh no!) They were whistling a tune,…
Kon Tiki California Hotel Somewhere down the Coast Kon Tiki In the…
Love That Boy And endless crowds of people, they walk upon this stone Wher…
Mercy See, I was on the east coast Attending the wedding of…
New Kind of Love On a day a lot like this I was wandering, I…
No Idea Do you fear loneliness? Do you fear getting left behind? A…
Runaways Once again I've been in trouble No I ain't no perfect…
Sea Shanty Seven days we leave the shore so I will learn to…
Song for Love Searchin', searchin' for my baby, yes I am Searchin', search…
Stay Stay with me I don't know if ill be ok Im stuck…
The End of That I tried your cocaine Just to know what it could do I…
The Mama Papa It was the first time. they only did it to…
The Moon Lay Down I feel it comin' Oh, that fancy lovin' I don't feel the…
Trials & Tribulations We all end where we are most comfortable We've seen it…
Undone Melody Twenty four Don't let it slip through your hands Anymore …
We Were One say hello (oh oh oh oh) we're already home say hello (oh…
Why & Why Speculation Borrowed time What's left unsaid Pulls out my sp…
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megan roberson
I was cut
Open on the way down
Reeling
from the blow
And you were there
On the other line
In between
the tears and the light show
What a disappointment
I thought there'd be so much more
But all this talking
Is driving me insane
And I was told
If I was to sing along
Forget about myself
We're all the same
Well maybe I should change my point of view
Dizzy in the morning
And I'm shaking in the afternoon
There's never no warning
When it's gonna hit
And I'm like an earthquake
When I get thinking too much
Everything's falling and shaking and falling
Through my hands
Well maybe I should change my point of view
All this time we have together...yeah
It's desperation
For everybody
It's wish-ful thinking
For the whole human race (or whoever)
I always enjoy the lyrics in the comments so I thought I would do it ... Im a few years late on this one but oh well.
Jerek Smiley
8th grade was pretty lit when this came out. Still sounds great in 2018 too lmao.
Shivam Patel
@Jared Sabovitch wtf
Shivam Patel
@Jared Sabovitch lmao all i said was wtf. man getting pressed for no reason and telling me to relax.
Jared Sabovitch
@Shivam Patel lol wtf???????
Plants and Animals
This is now 10 years old! Thanks for listening everyone
M Mac
End of That is a banger !!!!! Love it
Jay-Sae
Thank you brothers ❤ from MTL with love. I have kept coming back to this song for the last few years and it always gets me through the hard times.
thiskidkills
Always makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand-up - 'nuff said.
Avalon Archer
I discovered this song due to that particular scene in the Lifeguard. It sounds and feels like the heartbeats of two people in love and on an adrenaline rush.
Icanseeformiles
same, i found out about lifegaurd on ph lol