Bend Sinister: Animals

    This is Bend Sinister's third full album, released March 11th, 2014 under the File Under Music record label, which I do not know a lot about. I believe this is their first to be put out by File Under Music, but they seem to be based in Vancouver, BC. I love the sound Bend Sinister is putting together, true to themselves and really upbeat most of the time. But, they also slow down a song really well and create dramatic and sweeping music too. The have a flare for the dramatic, one could say, though not necessarily in the same sense that fun. does. Maybe more in the sense of Muse, which is what their first song sounds like a lot, or Jukebox the Ghost. 

    Anyway, I love the first song on the album, "Best of You", and the second is also quite good, "Fancy Pants." "Seventeen" is rocking as well. I heard the first two, evidently the singles, on my go to radio station these days; WITR, 89.7 "The Pulse of Music". For something different, the second to last two tracks, "You Remind Me" and "Through the Week" are a little different speed. The first is slightly poppy and the second is a definite slow song. Thank you RIT! The whole album is feel good and electric, with classic rock sensibilities--guitar and electric piano organ style, even some grand piano thrown in there.

     Check out the song, "Best of You" over under the 'Monthly Sample Tracks' for your listening enjoyment, or better yet hear the entire album on Bandcamp, courtesy of File Under Music, here. Enjoy!