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Plants and Animals - La La Land
From the title, you might expect that the latest album from these Montreal indie-rockers was inspired by Los Angeles glitz. And, with songs like “Tom Cruz” and “Game Shows,” you could be right. The group even names one number, the sexy, swaying “Kon Tiki,” after a California hotel where singer Warren Spicer and his bandmates “listen to the Gipsy Kings and watch the sun go down.” But then Warren offers up his vocal “la la la’s” on the infectious, sax-driven “American Idol” and the title’s real meaning becomes clear.
