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Conquering Animal Sound - On Floating Bodies

Review by Christian Cottingham

On Floating Bodies doesn’t shift the template much but it does refine it, the song structures more pronounced and the rhythms less abstracted, more memorable but just as enigmatic: it's a striking illustration of how easily stunning artists can fall far below the radar, lost beneath the indieboy clamour and the bubbled-up hype and the frenzied scrums chasing whatever’s screaming loudest. »

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Conquering Animal Sound release their second album 'On Floating Bodies' through Chemikal Underground.
Poetic, illusive. Machine-like, organic. Mysterious, pop. Conquering Animal Sound emerged from a Glasgow recording studio back in 2011 clutching their debut album, and 'Kammerspiel' quickly went on to enchant anyone who encountered it. Not that anyone figured it out. A beautifully complex work, the album matches bizarre, off kilter electronics with a fluid sense of melody that seemed to glue the disparate elements together. Now the band have completed a follow up. A bit like Bjork singing along to a classic Gameboy soundtrack, there's a playfulness at work here which belies Conquering Animal Sound's ferociously intelligent nature.
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