$6.00
Hearts of Animals - Cave Lights
2008 ArtStorm Records #002
Hand silkscreen cover
CD
Track Listing:
Maybe Maybe Maybe
The Next Day
Pillow Fight
Sit Right Here
Sister Stories
Sad Dancing
Versus
Drain Me
"Cave Lights is the first full length release by Hearts of Animals since 2007's acclaimed Lemming Baby. Burned in the plastic are the things we've come to admire from Mlee Suprean – a sharp melodic sense, expressive vocal phrasing, singular arrangements, and her distinctive lyrical sensibility. Yet, whereas Lemming Baby was a thematically unified work, Cave Lights sets its sights toward a broader sense of experimentation without sacrificing the qualities that make Hearts of Animals unique. Abstract tone poems like The Next Day find themselves alongside the cheeky electro-trash of Pillow Fight and Cave Lights even employs the vocal talents of Joe Mathlete to great dramatic effect in Versus. Fans of her previous work will recognize the lyrical gift, gorgeous melodies, dense DIY arrangements of Sit Right Here and the stripped bare emotions of Drain Me which lays out a soft plaintive performance and sweet melody that exposes a broken heart that is as beautiful as it is weary. To simply rewrite her last album would have been easy but Cave Lights is an expansion of Mlee Suprean's already broad palate of melody, emotion, and aural seascapes that reflect an artist unafraid to take risks and unwilling to sit still."
- Ramon Medina