KISSED BY AN ANIMAL - s/t LP Blackened coils of scritching guitars break

coils of scritching guitars break apart and reform

"Illinois" ushers in trumpets on parade

Though understated

shot through with all the band's inimitable signposts and touchstones: huge unison riffage

They used a Roland space echo

KISSED BY AN ANIMAL - s/t LP Blackened coils of scritching guitars breakSitting squarely at the intersection of fuzzy lo fi pop and 8th wave slacker psych, Kissed by an Animals eponymous debut album is one of the best things to come out of the Brooklyn scene in recent memory. It gets started with Lemonade, the kind of track that gets instantly stuck in your head, and warrants play after play as you stumble home drunk after a show. It asks questions with no answers and paints a picture that is nonspecific, yet the song is