Old sounds meet animalistic rock evolution in The Animal Beat's hook-driven debut E.P. Prepare to grow thumbs.

6 MP3 Songs in this album (28:17) !
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During the winter time, wild beasts know to hibernate by nature. Thus, the beginnings of Richmond, Virginia-based The Animal Beat are not unlike the annual cycles of the great black bear or the North American gila monster. In November of 2008, Travis Tucker and Jeff Linka began writing and practicing songs in a suitable cave overlooking one of Richmond's most populas floras. The following March, after weeks of living off of only gathered and stored acoustic guitars and pianos, it was finally time to emerge and set out on a path with others who shared only one distinct uniformity: nonuniformity.

Bassist Andrew Saunders, pianist David Graham, and drummer Paul Howard soon joined the pack, adding their own howls and claw prints to a set of songs that would eventually make up The Animal Beat's debut EP, Ambient Jungle Noise. Though these songs were born on mere guitars, they morphed into grand arrangements with the depth of Marianas Trench and more hooks than the sea lampreys that inhabit it. The five wild beasts eventually realized that the real animals might just be the songs themselves. Ambient Jungle Noise: For animals. By Animals.