Animal Nature
Studio album by
Escort
ReleasedOctober 30, 2015
GenreNu-disco
Length41:41
LabelEscort
Producer
  • Dan Balis
  • Eugene Cho[1]
Escort chronology
Escort
(2011)		 Animal Nature
(2015)		 City Life
(2019)

Animal Nature is the second album by an American nu-disco band Escort, released on October 30, 2015, through Escort Records. The album consists of ten new tracks along with "a handful of alternate edits and remixes of album cuts".[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Pitchfork6.8/10[4]

In a review for Pitchfork, Ilana Kaplan says the album is a more polished production then the band's debut with a little less funk, moving from "funk disco into a late '70s disco/early '80s synth phase, blurring genre lines," and Escort has "hit a nostalgic sweet spot that will never grow old."[4]

Andy Kellman of AllMusic states that "Animal Nature comes across more as the work of a band than of a studio project" and contains "references to specific disco and post-disco artists and bygone production touches less obvious, a little more concealed than they are on the 2011 album." The standout track is "Body Talk", which Kellman calls "a gleaming compound of early-'80s boogie and early-'90s house."[3]

Andy Battaglia of NPR says the members of the band are "vintage dance-music precisionists" but their goal for Animal Nature "is more than just disco in a wide-eyed sound that peers out to stare down the many decades since." He also praises the album's production value, calling it "slick and stylish and light — clearly in thrall to the sound it revisits."[5]

Track listing

Animal Nature track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Body Talk"4:39
2."Temptation"3:35
3."Barbarians"3:15
4."If You Say So"4:25
5."Helium"4:48
6."Animal Nature"4:29
7."My Life"3:28
8."Actor Out of Work"3:25
9."Cabaret"3:17
10."Dancer"6:20
Total length:41:41

References

  1. ↑ Martin, Paley (October 23, 2015). "Escort Talks Modern Disco, New York City & Experiencing Your Animal Nature". Billboard.
  2. ↑ Blistein, Jon (August 4, 2015). "Disco-Funk Group Escort Detail Long-Awaited New Album, Animal Nature". Rolling Stone.
  3. 1 2 Kellman, Andy. Escort – Animal Nature: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
  4. 1 2 Kaplan, Ilana (November 13, 2015). "Animal Nature". Pitchfork. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
  5. ↑ Battaglia, Andy (October 21, 2015). "Review: Escort, Animal Nature". NPR. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
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