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- Summary: The third full-length release for the San Francisco garage rock band was recorded to tape by Kelley Stoltz.
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- Record Label: Empty Cellar
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia, Garage Rock Revival
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Sep 13, 2016Cool Ghouls have a very thorough grasp of how psych should be repackaged for today. Animal Races offer harmony-laden 60s folk-rock with a slight slacker feel, not unlike Quilt.
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MojoSep 6, 2016A third LP of warm, retro pop jangle. [Oct 2016, p.100]
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Sep 12, 2016If you like drawling guitars and the springy thud of basslines, if you prefer sunny melodies dredged in fog and dissonance, Cool Ghouls is as good a bet as any.
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UncutAug 17, 2016Animal Races offers few departures, being exploratory and decidedly retro, but it's appealingly rendered. [Sep 2016, p.71]
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Oct 21, 2016It’s a record that, for its infrequent misfires, delivers on the band’s desires to resurrect the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll.
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Aug 26, 2016Ultimately it’s a response to sugary summer pop songs that won’t keep you warm then the sun goes down.
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Aug 17, 2016Animal Races is an homage to a bygone era, and a terrific one at that, so while it's far more influenced than it could ever be influential, it does have the potential to inspire sentimentality among those who lived through the era to which it devotes itself.
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