Mr Jenkins, by Sound Animal

Mr Jenkins

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1.	Or What 03:59	info	buy track
2.	The Underwater 03:42	info	buy track
3.	Storm Cellar 05:02	info	buy track
4.	Attack Wails 01:42	info	buy track
5.	Swift 03:08	info	buy track
6.	Dangerous 01:50	info	buy track
7.	Don't Mess With Us 05:45	info	buy track
8.	Can't Trust Jenkins 05:02	info	buy track
9.	Lava Days 06:41	info	buy track
10.	Rumble Ready 03:10	info	buy track
11.	Breathless 05:52	info	buy track

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You can't trust Mr Jenkins to stay who he says he is. He's a little slippery, sometimes a Captain, sometimes a Lieutenant, sometimes a Mr. You can never be quite sure what he looks like, as his suspicious appearance seems to conveniently morph as well.

While jamming, which is the the original foundation of this instrumental Experimental Psych Rock album XAW and SA traded off the drum kit and guitar.

XAW's distinctive confident ambient drone guitar commits itself fully to the flow of psychedelia. SA's teases apart hypnotizingly slow simple melodic riff motifs.

XAW's drumming wiggles the songs into the psych rock category though unquestionably the album's Rock is Experimental, with Noise Rock and Drone elements. SA's drumming is more primal, reminiscent of early Swans.

Then, when producing the album, SA added layers with various instruments and committed strange sound design upon it. Why doesn't it sound like keyboards? Because those are played on a MIDI controller, which can be made to sound like anything, including guitar.

All these instrumental pieces portray being tough, navigating a tough, tumultuous world. SA put the album together during the endless storm period in the transition between 2022 and 2023. Layering stems for each piece such as silver flute, melodica, and the synth giving it its kosmische feel, then doing the sound design to give it a sense of gritty unfamiliarity to maneuver, she turned the theme into a story of messy survival.

Not only making it out alive physically but also self-protection from too much vulnerability in interacting with personalities that may have damaging aspects. The shady side of humanity, and individuals close to us, is what ultimately underlies this album. That's not a joke. Hide in the darkness from the darkness.

But sometimes, playing with the darkness and forming risky alliances or isolating are the best ways to for fighters to bond. To fight against the others by having each other's backs, to fight the surrounding darkness with play, to protect against the horrors of each other and of oneself through goofing around or hitting the drums like madmen.

There's a storm motif in the album, such as in "Storm Cellar," evoking a group of somewhat militaristic people heading for a storm cellar or something playing a twisted role of that den of safety. Listening to the song, one can't help but imagine the shaky hierarchies that are established and enforced against the chaos of the place as the storm continues on and on, making the above-ground uninhabitable.

Being rough and ready on the streets once its dry enough, the characters maintain their intimidating factor, though the sabotagingly cartoonish art undercuts it. When we look at their images, the fighters ("Rumble Ready") and swaggerers ("Don't Mess with US") are hard to take too seriously, just like XAW don't take always carry the sinister persona or take the album overly seriously.

Mr Jenkins is meant to be Captain Beefheart raw and crazy and sometimes even venture uncomfortably into harsh noise like "Swift." Meant to be Ty Segall and Caspar Brotzman Massaker noise rock, Earth drone, Meg White blasting formal training, while also offering psych rock vibes along with echoes of marches, powwows, and dirt.

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released June 8, 2023

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XAW drums, guitar
SA drums, guitar, keyboards, flute, melodica, keyboards, voice, slide whistles, khaen, Greek double shepherd's flute, penny whistle, bass, pungi, harmonica, production

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Sound Animal Berkeley, California

Ranges feral beyond traditional human constraints.

Many non-genres. Khaen, pungi, bass, guitar, flutes, melodica, harmonica, bodhran, cajon...

SA produces; most is solo. Collaborators: Igor Iofe, Steve Gilmartin, XAW, A.J. Kaufmann, Infinite Wimshurst, Psychedic Mayhem, The Fall of Saigon, Tom McCarthy, Chris Nolte.

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