Power Animal-Exorcism

If you took Radiohead and plopped them into American Exceptionalism-land, where from sea to shining sea under spacious skies and purple mountains majesty they harvested amber waves of grain by the sweat of their fiercely individual labor, retiring at night to the shining city upon a hill where they and their neighbors pitched hay, raised barns, and danced by lantern light, well, you might just get a better Radiohead. 

They'd still be as complex rhythmically, their striking electronic experiments channeling the raw passion of the barnyard stomp, but gone would be their annoying whininess, the reflexive pessimism that leaves them hunting for something else to complain about. No more printing out of the Universal Sigh. You might instead find an optimistic Radiohead, an American Radiohead, who exudes happiness in life and believe in their hearts that people are fundamentally good.

You might get Power Animal’s Exorcism.

This is a fun record, seamlessly weaving electronic experimentation with vocal warping. Lyrics hint at doing things better from here on out in-between rousing Banjo-picking. “Mold Spores” alone is enough to make anyone’s day better, as if the Holy Spirit itself were flying through the rafters and singing good news. 

The record is that it’s fairly short at six tracks, with the rest being devoted to remixes. I would have preferred a short EP with remixes on a seperate release since it's always weird hearing a remix soon after hearing a song for the first time, but it's a digital release on bandcamp.com so I just shunt the remixes to a "side two." 

Half of all proceeds goes towards Philabundance to help feed the unfortunate. Be a good guy or gal and pick this up, and at least more people won't go hungry in this land of amber waves of grain.