palabras Rob Perez

Electronica/Techno fans are used to hearing their favorite artists play music that features ultra hot beats to party to. Music they can get their dance on. Who listens to words when you’re in the middle of a trance, totally immersed in the energy coming from the speakers? Well, The Pinker Tones are one of the few electronica/techno bands that defy the norms of their genre. Yes, they create beautiful, organic, cutting edge music that you can get your dance on to, probably better than anyone. But the Pinker Tones make you listen to their lyrics, which are introspective, current, real, nostalgic, melancholy, and optimistic. On Wild Animals, they defy expectations again by recording an album that does a complete 360 from their previous album, The Million Colours Revolution. Million Colours was about what the future could hold, Wild Animals is about the real world, the world we live in. It’s not always a great place, but it’s our world, and it’s up to us to make the most of it!

Featuring world music artists Jimmy Lindsay, Amparo, and hosts of other musical cameos, Wild Animals sounds nothing like The Pinker Tones previous release. Where The Million Colours Revolution, and the remix follow-up More Colours, focused more on the music, creating stellar, synthetic sounds, Wild Animals is more lyrical but the music is hot. In fact, the first track, Hold On, sounds like it could be a lost track originally scheduled for the previous album, having that same energetic beat that was present in More Colours. But it’s totally new Pinker Tones music, as is "S.E.X.Y.R.O.B.OT.", which makes you feel like you’re about to take off into the future!

Nostalgia definitely takes center stage with "On Se Promenait," which has a very old-school Spanish style vibe to it. Literally meaning “They went for a walk,” it sounds as though you are the one talking a walk through the Spanish countryside. "The Whistling Song" shows the Pinker Tones as serious musical artists who don’t take themselves seriously but instead like having fun with their music. To round out the album, "Working Bees" has the Pinker Tones giving us soul 70’s style with a musical beat that would fit in nicely to any cheesy, 70’s Blaxploitation flick! The Pinker Tones have outdone themselves once again. You almost always expect that from this dynamic duo.