{"id":70073,"date":"2018-10-01T17:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=70073"},"modified":"2018-09-29T13:47:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T12:47:43","slug":"review-ttng-animals-acoustic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-ttng-animals-acoustic\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: TTNG – Animals Acoustic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A sense of dread creeps over you when a band says they\u2019re going to “reimagine” their catalogue. Maybe they\u2019re out of ideas? A record deal to fulfil? Bills to pay? For TTNG,<\/strong> it\u2019s to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of their well-received debut. So why does \u2018Animals Acoustic<\/em>\u2019, a stripped back reinterpretation of the whole album, feel so uninspired?<\/p>\n

\u2018Animals<\/em>\u2019 was always a light-fingered, delicate record. There are no layers of distortion to wade through to find each song\u2019s soul. Hence, the acoustic treatment hardly shifts the overall sound. Dirty production means \u2018Animals Acoustic<\/em>\u2019 isn\u2019t even as beautiful as the original.<\/p>\n

If this is a “reimagining”, what\u2019s to stop the songs being more interesting, or more accessible? Why isn\u2019t the disappointingly muted call\/response section of \u2018Lemur<\/em>\u2019 presented as a bigger hook? Shackled to the originals, these songs can\u2019t be something new, but could<\/em> have avoided becoming so lacklustre. Recording took just two weeks, given a chance to breathe it might not have felt so rushed.<\/p>\n