Notable Mention

The youth always generates buzz. In a generational effort to cite direct and local influences, West Palm's Surfer Blood has done just that in a generous shout-out to us. Well, us in a previous being known as Pygmy. Pygmy was the outfit we tried on in OUR youth and have since tailored it to what is now a tighter fitting Animal/Tropical plus various earmarked musings.

See the interview below as they chose Pygmy to be the reason they started playing music and accurately described the lead singer's diet of sugar and bacon.

Many thanks to Surfer Blood.

Best of Miami New Times 2010

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UPCOMING TOUR DATES

Dates announced for the nether regions of the Northeast.

June 29

Piano's

158 Ludlow Street

New York, NY

with

Afuche . Ice Cream . Hannah Fairchild

June 30

Kung Fu Necktie

1248 North Front Street

Philadelphia, PA

with

Afuche . Hermit Thrushes . Univox

July 1

Velvet Lounge

915 U Street NW

Washington, D.C.

with

Afuche . Animal Genital . Young & High

July 2

Spike Hill

184 & 186 Bedford Avenue

Brooklyn, NY

COMMITEDTOTHISCOMMITEDTOTHISCOMMITEDTOTHIS

NEW ALBUM. ARRIVING IN JULY. STAY TUNED, Literally...

Check out this great illustration reel made by Jennier Medina. More pictures in the link below.

The Sensualists

Ebon12 review via Sweat Stock

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More captures from Skeptical Operetta (courtesy of Jaime Salazar)

Manola y Black Magic City

"Manola" & "Black Magic City" By Animal Tropical Live at SweatStock 2010 from Jorge Rubiera on Vimeo.

Miami, bro blurbs on Cinema Sounds

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VOTE OR DIE

VOTE FOR ANIMAL/TROPICAL HERE!

Backtracking

This is a rough, rough demo from 2007

RECEPTIONIST

Discosoma Rex on Sweatstock Performance

A nice lil' blurb on our Sweatstock performance from Discosoma Rex

"Go Native" Live

"Go Native" By Animal Tropical Live at SweatStock 2010 from Jorge Rubiera on Vimeo.

Sweat Stock Live Performance Trailer

Animal Tropical Live at SweatStock 2010 Trailer from Jorge Rubiera on Vimeo.

SWEATSTOCKSLIDESHOW

Thanks to Ian Witlen and the Miami New Times for these fantastic photographs.

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Sweat Stock Interview

This is an interview conducted by Christine Borges to our resurrecting guitarist, Kris Pabon, who is descending upon Miami today to play with us at Sweat Stock. This interview is all about how our communal commute through the east coast is shared and a coastal Easter is reenacted when one of us rises from the dead for a few performances. Christine Borges, who probably felt like Jim Caviezel in Frequency, spoke with Pabon via technologies not worth mentioning. Read the full article below.

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NO AGE! SWEAT STOCK! THIS SATURDAY!

We go on around 6pm!

Doom Years

Here is a quickly spliced video we created a while back for an earlier live version of "Doom Years".

Edited by Jorge. Filmed by GisMo/Babyhead Jorge and a few other friends.

Download the album (in the top right corner) to hear the actual "Doom Years".

Compare & collect my friends!

The 405 reviews Animal/Tropical

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Headline News

no comment...

New Times reviews Cinema Sounds No. 6

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The Trailer for Skeptical Operetta

Even though the performance is over, here's the actual trailer for it, and for those who missed it here's an idea of what you missed.

Trailer 2 for The Skeptical Operetta By Animal Tropical from Jorge Rubiera on Vimeo.

THANK YOU

To everyone who came out on Saturday and those who supported us on stage.

Matt Preira . Jonathan Rose . Anita Bertolini . Edward Adames

Kristopher Alien Pabgone

Gonzalo Urrutia . Danielle Veit . Hewlester Samuel . Deryl Spielman

CINEMA SOUNDS TONIGHT!

see you there

Animal/Tropical

Backtracking

PITBULLS (2009)

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Here's an untouched track from last year. Hopefully, it will be touched soon.

2004 S/T EP

As the mid-millennium summer was closing on Miami and the leaves didn't change, five dandy musicians reunited and recited a new approach to their song-craft:

lending to the song as much as possible.

Recorded live in Jose's bedroom with a couple of microphones, this 2004 song cycle revolves around a sound that best suits the name with dark and vaguely straight forward emotions.

I Love you Both

Welcome to My Funeral

Secret Pain

A Death in the Family

Horsefly

B-sides

Mabry

Cornfield

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The World In A Paper Cup reviews Animal/Tropical

This is a review of a recent New York performance with our colleagues, Freelance Whales.

Semi-Trailer for The Skeptical Operetta

Trailer for The Skeptical Operetta By Animal Tropical from Jorge Rubiera on Vimeo.

SEE IT IN FULL ON APRIL 3RD AT THE TOWER THEATRE

1508 Southwest 8th Street Miami, FL 33135

Upcoming: 04/03/10 @ Tower Theatre

Through every barnyard, tennis court, backyard, apartment, garden and basement, we've dug through some interesting terrain to plug in gear and blast semi-audible tunes to college folks. This next show may be the most unique we've ever performed at. Four bands, all personally scoring film excerpts. Most probably choosing a film they favor or enjoy. We, however have decided to film our own excerpt. We'll show it in full and provide the soundtrack. In fact, we just finished filming it yesterday. Hopefully it'll come off as planned. Even if it doesn't, we tend to take comfort in uncomfortable situations.

There is one more very exciting factor involved in the show.

WE ARE RECRUITING VOICES TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE ANIMAL/TROPICAL CHOIR

So far just for this performance, but if it turns out well it might not be the last time we do this.

Please respond to this post or contact us on Facebook if you'd like to be a part of it. You don't need to be a good singer, just have a voice you're willing to share with some friends and strangers.

Stay tuned for The Skeptical Operetta...

NBC Miami briefly reviews Doom Years

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Backtracking

Scrooge McDuck aint got shit on us!

So, while he is diving into his vault of gold coins (and most likely hurting himself), we are drowning in lo-fi wavelengths and distorted microphones. Basically, we have a vault of our own.

It contains many a demo, early version and afterthought. In order to share with our dearest friends we've decided to feature different demos, old recording or maybe even live versions throughout the blog's lifespan from our catalog of 10+ years playing music together and separately.

Here's the first taste:

"CANDY" (2007)

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Negro en Bicicleta

This is our LP manufactured in 2006 under our previous moniker,

Down-Home Southernaires.

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Phrequency Blog reviews Doom Years

Phrequency Blog: What I'm listening to...

Knocks From The Underground reviews Doom Years

Checkin' in with Miami: Doom Years

3/05

Northeast Tour 2010

We have a great little set of dates coming up in the currently blistering Northeastern United States.

All over the world everyone has on their winter's best (and worst).

Come show off your new outfit for the decade to form ahead of us.

As we trade cotton, silk, cashmere and wool, we will also be exchanging strings, skins and diaphragms .

We will be joining the fantastically impressive Freelance Whales on a majority of the dates listed below.

PLEASE JOIN US AS WELL

January 19th

Great Scott

1222 Commonwealth Ave.

Allston, MA 02134

w/ Freelance Whales & Faces on Film

January 20th

Mercury Lounge

217 East Houston St.

New York, NY 10002-1021

w/ Freelance Whales

January 21st

Black Cat (BackStage)

1811 14th St NW

Washington, DC 20009

w/ Freelance Whales & Faces on Film

January 22nd

Kung Fu Necktie

1250 N. Front St.

Philidelphia, PA 19122

w/ Freelance Whales

There are more dates to post coming very soon.