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| Allmusic |
 Margot & the Nuclear So and So's signed with Epic Records in 2007, having made enough waves with The Dust of Retreat to climb aboard a major-label's roster. The big leagues aren't always accommodating to evolving bands, however, and the band soon clashed with Epic over which songs to include on their follow-up album. Two different records were ultimately released: the band's preferred version, Animal!, and the Epic-appeasing Not Animal, which featured those songs favored by the label. The latter record was the only one to receive a proper CD treatment, while Animal! was relegated to a vinyl/digital release....full text |
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| Billboard |
| Indiana indie-pop octet Margot & the Nuclear So and So's are going a unique route for a sophomore release with a pair of overlapping 12-track albums released simultaneously. "Animal!," the band's preferred version, will be available on vinyl, while "Not Animal," a label-sequenced compilation of five "Animal!" songs and seven others from the sessions, will street on CD and as a digital download. Both sets contain noteworthy songs (the seductively psychedelic "A Children's Crusade on Acid" and the spare, uplifting singalong "As Tall As Cliffs" stand out), but "Animal!" is easily the superior effort, bolstered by the nervy, string-driven "My Baby (Shoots Her Mouth Off)" and epic centerpiece duet "Mariel's Brazen Overture." Throughout the 19 tracks, the group comes across as confident and capable of charming in varying motifs across the rock spectrum. —Troy Carpenter...full text |
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| Blender |
| This Indianapolis collective creates clever chamber pop that stretches skyward with keyboards, harmonica and an occasional horn or string section. In keeping with that overstuffed spirit, their first major-label album has two versions: Not Animal, approved by Epic, and Animal!, which offers more adventurous material but not Not Animal’s five strongest songs. In either version, the album splits the difference between smart and smarty-pants: The articulate arrangements occasionally overdo the left-field instrumentation, and Richard Edwards’s empathetic short-story tales flirt with fussiness. In “A Children’s Crusade on Acid,” he moans over distant guitar feedback and dime-store percussion, “Sarah, settle down/Put your helmet on/Walk through streets of gold/With cigarettes you hand-rolled.” When they peel away the clutter, as on “German Motor Car,” the easygoing beauty makes simplicity sound like the smartest of all strategies....full text |
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