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Forward Motion Godyssey

by Post Animal

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vakira
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vakira simply changed my life Favorite track: How Do You Feel.
Austen Valentine
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Austen Valentine This album awakened an excitement for new music again. I wish more albums mixed musical vocabulary as much as this one. Favorite track: Fitness.
Vinny Nelson
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Vinny Nelson This is a banger of an album and shows an advancement in the bands musicianship. There are so many unique sounds and I genuinely smiled when In A Paradise sounded like a Black Sabbath song. Post Animal (the song) sounds like a classic driving down the highway song. All of these songs are diverse enough and itll bring you a smile.

Favorite Track: Too hard to pick but probably Post Animal
Mallory Graham
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Mallory Graham very glad this title track encompasses the band's sound. Killer Live show 👌🏻 Favorite track: Post Animal.
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1.
Overtime I’ve got a lot of friends it keeps growing Keeping me company when my hand’s glowing Setting it down is worse than not knowing Don’t give your whole life away That is all you have to do I don’t mind, really I just don’t like talking about that anymore Life’s been a lot of ‘tell your story’ ‘When did you meet and where’s it all going?’ Take your love away Would it ever be enough? Take your love away Would it ever be enough? Hold on tight There are a lot of things arriving at your door Try to engage and stick to the story You haven’t changed but now you’re less boring Don’t live your whole life away That is all I ask of you Life’s a lot of sleeping though I’ll get some problems resolved in my dreams Holding a gaze is hard while floating Where have you been and where are you going? Take your love away Would it ever be enough? Take your love away Would it ever be enough? Take your love away Would it ever be enough? Take your love away Would it ever be enough?
2.
Post Animal 04:03
Can’t you see Through this man He is not Good for them Are you Are you Are you Animal Are you Are you Are you Honest Right back to Where we’re from Animal Toting gun Are you Are you Are you Animal Are you Are you Are you Honest What we see Not a test Nothing to ignore Waiting with Bated breath One foot out the door Now it’s time Lead the way Give them shelter From the reign Are you Are you Are you Animal Are you Are you Are you Honest What we see Not a test Nothing to ignore Waiting with Bated breath One foot out the door Choose not to Say and do Nothing in return Lead them all Train them all So that we endure All that we can do See right through it all
3.
Schedule 04:14
Waking up, different from getting up, A plane to Chicago was proof enough, That I should just blindly trust within the universe, You showed me it is real. You made a change, I will never forget, Now I wish I could show you, everything it meant, Even if I would try, I don’t know where I’d begin, Whatever it is, I don’t understand. I’ll never know what you go through, But I’d do it all again with you, With a life that feels it's always on the go, I just wanted you to know, That's okay. Now it’s harder to enjoy the view, Feels like I stole it, all away from you, It makes me hate myself, and what I do, But deep inside I know that’s not quite true. Now I’m back all alone in the van, I’m crying ‘cause I know I’m doing all I can, Maybe its something else, something out of my hands, Whatever it is, I don’t understand. I’ll never know what you go through, But I’d do it all again with you, With a life that feels it's always on the go, I just wanted you to know, That's okay. Baby if you need me I can fit you in my schedule, Baby when I need you can you fit me in your schedule. It gets cold at night, cold at night, I just wanted you to know.
4.
Fitness 04:57
Run with me fitness is all I know Run with me fitness is all I know Run with me fitness is all I know Train my mind to hunger for playback and talk Follow closely these voices it’s better than thoughts Forward Motion God is the words of this song Don’t complete these words, just cut them Run with me fitness is all I know I’ve done a lot of mixing with my numbers You’ve made a lot of mistakes with my pride But if life is change and change is hard, will patience be what’s living? How much farther to go? I’m outpacing a feeling that someone can serve as a home Just focus on reaching the things that are under control, And do it alone Look down at the road Lift up your feet And convince them to never be slowed And we used to blame distance when something was wrong And it used to mean something when someone was gone And it used to be silence and now it’s a hum And it used to mean something when someone was gone Run with me fitness is all I know Run with me fitness is all I know Run with me fitness is all I know
5.
Give me something to help me pass the time A shallow effort to wade through what seems eternity, i don’t mind... Giving up if it means i can unwind To find out i am trapped inside who i shouldn’t be I’ll give you something if you return in kind, A subtle dose of nothing more than complacency, you may find... I see an Eagle in a tailored suit There’s nothing quite like its point of view It’s like a mirror looking through my eyes, A life, unlived, shadowed by disguise We are all just waiting in a line Forming thoughts we think would never occur to them But we could never fully satisfy Our endless need to know what doesn’t occur to us Eagle in a paradise, it comes, it goes, it already knows, Your life, has it passed you by? It came, it went, now you’re in a hole
6.
The Whole 02:04
7.
When you look with your eyes widened, And your mouth opened, And you breathe so deeply. You’ve been acting shy lately, Can’t say what’s on your mind lately, And you breathe so deeply. How do you feel? How do you feel? Up until the sun rises, Just to use our time wisely, And you breathe so deeply. You’ve said you’ve seen signs happening, But you can’t even look at me, And you breathe so deeply. How do you feel? How do you feel? Like an echo from the past, Here for long but not quite here to last, You do some wrong then log the feedback, And gather dust along the way. Bet I do, Always think of you, Don’t regret what I do, Just finish what you choose, Its so hard, this I know, In the end it's space to grow, not just distance. How do you feel? How do you feel?
8.
Safe or Not 04:11
Are you safe or not Saying something new Are you in a lie Doing what you do We can get it right Believing in the light Are you safe or not Happens all the time Happens all the time How did I know that You wouldn’t notice Everything in focus Everything in focus We can get it right Believing in the light Are you safe or not Happens all the time Happens all the time Are you safe or not Stopped you but you just knew Are you in a lie The action was overdue We can get it right Believing in the light Are you safe or not Happens all the time Happens all the time Tell me what to do Always seem to lose Tell me what to say Always in the way Tell me what to do Always seem to lose Tell me what to say I’m always in the way
9.
Me and my private shield, You can't see a single thing, But we can you! Fear my private shield, You haven't any idea, What we can do. Just like a vine, you shall crawl, you shall snap, you shall seek, mindlessly, just like a vine stuck in dirt. What you dig, whats your deed, ordinary, so naive, shall remain, secret screen, secret world inside, just for me. Me and my private shield, You can't see a single thing, But we can you! Fear my private shield, You haven't any idea, What we can do. Just like a dog, Heed and beg, tempered dog, Time to move along, get along, Chase and sniff your way on. Oh simple mind, sob and moan, if you like, Don’t bark at what you couldn’t climb, couldn’t find, Tug your leash, to pretend you would bite at Me and my private shield, You can't see a single thing, But we can you! Fear my private shield, You haven't any idea, What we can do. I’m stepping in between two worlds, shifting, like a ghost. Time is a play, a good game, I can relate to that. Left behind, you didn’t know, you couldn’t think, had to take a score so low, High enough to line it up, and sigh, and size it up and blow some smoke for Me and my private shield, You can't see a single thing, But we can you! Fear my private shield, You haven't any idea, What we can do.
10.
There’s thrill in the danger Of having “it” all It’s not like “it” made you But “it’s” not your call Have you ever felt “it” “It” lives without a name “It’s” more like a feeling If feeling felt the same Now you’ll start to worry And worry’s no good For “it” shows no mercy If misunderstood A detrimental concept to inflict upon oneself I’d offer my condolences if you’d put the words to rest Now that’s “it’s” made you Are you really whole? Now that you’ve got something Is thrill just fear disguised? Although you deserve “it” You’ll try to no avail To find out “its” purpose Is forever veiled An interesting concept to attribute reason for Impenetrable fortresses always have hidden doors A detrimental concept to inflict upon oneself I’d offer words of wisdom if i had the words to tell We are stuck inside a home unsettled What good is it if you can’t give it back I like, you like, we like nothing But we pretend that we’re happy There is nothing left to (give)
11.
Sifting 03:49
We shall get down to kneel, Gathering for the big reveal. We shall be prepped to pay, Practicing to look the other way. Progress is killing our home, We're pretending to the throne. If something's out there, know it's rare, That I would ask and you'd reply, Offer what you can this time.
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about

The sophomore full-length from Post Animal, Forward Motion Godyssey unfolds with a frenetic momentum, mercurial and unhinged and gloriously volatile. In a bold leap forward both artistically and sonically, the Chicago-based alt-prog band sets their existential questioning to a wildly kinetic sound, mining inspiration from genres as divergent as electronic and psych-rock and—at one particularly sublime point—achieving both stoner-metal brutishness and dreamy R&B elegance in the very same instant. At turns rhapsodic and unsettling, meditative and chaotic, the result is anything but subtle: a body of work that beckons deep involvement from the listener, a richly layered experience primed to leave its audience indelibly transported.

With its maximalist arrangements and larger-than-life scale, Forward Motion Godyssey came to life in a fittingly majestic location: a mountain-adjacent home in Big Sky, Montana, lent to the band by a friend of Reyes. Holing up in the house for eight days—after spending 36 hours stranded in Fargo due to a devastating snowstorm—Post Animal took full advantage of the splendor of their environment. “We recorded one of the songs around sunset, and set up everything so we could look out over the mountains as this crazy pink sun-glow fell over them,” Hirshland recalls. “The whole place was just a really inspiring space to play around in.”

Throughout the recording of Forward Motion Godyssey, Allison joined forces with longtime Post Animal collaborator Adam Thein to handle production duties, shaping a sonic landscape that’s unpredictable but never wayward. “Making this record, we wanted to go extreme in a lot of different directions—we wanted to be as poppy as we’ve ever been, as over-the-top as we’ve ever been, as grandiose and heavy and dramatic as we’ve ever been,” Toledo notes.

To that end, Forward Motion Godyssey encompasses such moods as the dance-ready radiance of “Safe or Not,” a song about “feeling like you can’t be yourself” according to Reyes. There’s also the disquieting intensity of “Fitness,” a sprawling exploration of what Hirshland refers to as “persistence in the face of loss.” The groove-driven “How Do You Feel” channels both confused longing and irrepressible hope in its soulful overtones, while the synth-heavy “Schedule” embodies an undeniable pop appeal. And on “Sifting,” Forward Motion Godyssey closes out on a moment of otherworldly beauty that the band traces back to the song’s conceptualization. “We really wanted ‘Sifting’ to sound like you’re floating through space on an asteroid,” says Williams. “It’s meant to capture that experience of feeling so small compared to the massiveness of something else, and how that can be kind of haunting but incredibly calming at the same time.”

Despite its endless shapeshifting, Forward Motion Godyssey bears a cohesive grace, a factor undoubtedly tied to Post Animal’s ever-growing connection as creative partners. With their origins lying in a near-lifelong friendship between Allison and Williams, the band formed in 2015 and got their start as a six-piece also featuring guitarist Joe Keery, then released their debut album When I Think of You in a Castle in 2018. (Though Keery has since taken a key role on “Stranger Things” and left the lineup, he continues to collaborate with his former bandmates in various side projects as time permits.) Over the years, Post Animal have achieved a profound closeness that Hirshland likens to communicating in their own language. “When one of us goes through something, everyone else goes through it too—to the point where I can listen to a song that Dalton or Matt penned the lyrics for, and feel like it was written about me,” he says.

In the making of Forward Motion Godyssey, that sense of unity emboldened the band as they shared their most emotionally revealing lyrics to date, with much of the album touching on what Allison describes as “the ways that your work or your passion drives you, sometimes to the detriment of yourself and of others.” And through that relentless self-examination—as well as the album’s deeply immersive complexity—Post Animal ultimately inspire a similar introspection within the listener. “I feel like almost everyone can relate to the things we were going through on this record, even if their circumstances are different,” says Allison. “One of the things we want most for the album is for people to think about their own lives and their own journey, and maybe try to live in a more purposeful or mindful way.”

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released February 14, 2020

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Post Animal Chicago, Illinois

Post Animal is a Rock & Roll band from Chicago

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