Stream: Spirit Animal, ‘Regular World’
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Since we last hit the “Party in the Back” with Spirit Animal, the NYC quartet has been signed to Wind-Up Records, completed work on a slew of new songs and … not … mellowed … one … bit. Dating to their 2010 debut “The Cost of Living,” the band’s brash, funk-infused songs come laced with humor and biting commentary, and on their new single “Regular World” frontman Steve Cooper again reveals his hip-hop influences, spitting couplets saluting the workaday life. “I take what I get / and make the most of it,” declares Cooper, a former Angeleno and D.C. native, wending his way toward a huge chorus. With Spirit Animal’s tight crew — guitarist Cal Stamp, bassist Paul Michel and drummer Ronen Evron — typically fierce, this one’s anything but a regular rock song. Spirit Animal’s “World War IV” will be out Oct. 30.
||| Stream: “Regular World”
||| Live: Spirit Animal opens for Say Lou Lou and Phoebe Ryan on Thursday at the Roxy. They also play Monday night at the Bootleg Theater.
||| Previously: “BST FRNDS,” “The Black Jack White”
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