We loved Plants and Animals’ last album, “La La Land,” with its riffs and sonorities and connections to the Central Coast (specifically the Kon Tiki Inn in Pismo Beach).  Now comes their new album, “The End of That,” to be released next week.   Recorded in a French mansion, The End of That began with the band coming into the session with the material already written (as opposed to their former sprawling, in-the-studio songwriting process).  As a result of that or the mansion, we hear a more intimate sound with added piano and plenty of acoustic guitar, but with plenty of the band’s multi-part rockers.

The album is streaming over at Paste HERE.