August 1983
The Animals
Ark
1.75 out of 5
The Animals
Ark
1.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Just Can’t Get Enough
Gotta Get Back to You
Just Can’t Get Enough
Gotta Get Back to You
Opening with the garbage track “Loose Change” (which fails in its attempt to be cute and sardonic (and apes “Love Hurts” by J. Geils a bit too much for me), this collection of musical notes out together in some order to present a facsimile of “songs” is the last album by The Animals and I, for one, couldn’t be more fine with that. This is cut rate New Wave Rolling Stones bar band is exhausting.
“The Night” is an example of what’s wrong with this album. Lyrically, it’s not terrible. Construction-wise, it can work, but those big, echoey drums and synths (!!!!) drag it so hard they weigh on the song (and others) like an artificial gravity pulling this reckless mess into its own singularity and when Burden scream/wails on tracks like “Trying to Get to You” I can hear a collective “NO!” from every deceased bluesman standing at the gates of Blues Hell or Heaven when asked if Eric should be allowed in.
“The Night” is an example of what’s wrong with this album. Lyrically, it’s not terrible. Construction-wise, it can work, but those big, echoey drums and synths (!!!!) drag it so hard they weigh on the song (and others) like an artificial gravity pulling this reckless mess into its own singularity and when Burden scream/wails on tracks like “Trying to Get to You” I can hear a collective “NO!” from every deceased bluesman standing at the gates of Blues Hell or Heaven when asked if Eric should be allowed in.
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