Warren Spicer
Plants and Animals look forward to the spring
“What’s gonna happen to you,” Plants and Animals singer Warren C. Spicer asked first thing, melodically and with worry. “You have woke up too soon, and found the world rearranged. And now your feelings have changed.” The last time I saw the Montreal indie-rockers they had closed their show with ... Read more »
Plants and Animals' 'The End of That' Video Is Perfect Homage to Engelbert Humperdink
The vintage-themed clip features the devastatingly handsome frontman Warren Spicer as he sings on live television. With perfectly curled locks, pancake makeup skin and dazzling mutton chops, the singer is a dead ringer for Engelbert Humperdink. Director Joe Cobden sprinkled this ... Read more »
Rewriting the ending The Uniter: Winnipeg’s Weekly Urban Journal
“We lived in rundown apartments so we didn’t need nine to five jobs to pay the rent,” singer-guitarist Warren Spicer says of the band’s formative years in Montreal. “We could focus on making the music we wanted.” by Supplied Montreal’s indie rock band Plants and Animals is currently on ... Read more »
The Daily Bruin :: Soundbite: Plants and Animals
The album starts out smoothly with “Before,” opening with a solo acoustic guitar before vocalist Warren Spicer’s throaty voice joins in, singing “Love me now and leave me in the Spring / The sun don’t come to change everything / What looked good in the winter don’t look good no more / ... Read more »
Plants and Animals, Live Session #105
Those jammy experimental tunes where electric guitars are the focus are offset by ballads like “No Idea” where Warren Spicer’s vocals are center stage and the electric guitar and piano serve as a backdrop. Plants and Animals have played together for a decade and that experience shows in ... Read more »
Canadian indie rockers Plants and Animals evolve from weird for weird's sake to appropriately idiosy...
"The learning's in the losing, and you're better off just burning some bridges," sings Plants and Animals singer-guitarist Warren Spicer in "Song for Love. " More condolence than advocacy, it's the signature song on the Canadian trio's new third album, The End of That. As you've ... Read more »
Wonderful Bubble
Woodley, multi-instrumentalist Warren Spicer and lead guitarist Nicolas Basque did that for five years, recording two EPs before putting together their debut album, Parc Avenue, and going out into the world as a touring band. Woodley describes the band's instrumental period as ... Read more »
Plants and Animals Has Got a Beat, and You Can Dance to It
Plants and Animals Has Got a Beat, and You Can Dance to It âMake a tricky record,â Warren Spicer once said, âand then spend the next year learning how to play it live.â He co-founded Plants and Animals, a Montreal indie trio, and, yes, their music is tricky. They spent two years ... Read more »
A Wink and a Grain of Salt
Whether most listeners will be able to really dig in, however, will hinge on their relationship with singer Warren Spicer, who finds himself at the very front of the mix. Spicer doesn't so much play for spotlight as appear naked beneath it. Everything is bared. The diary is open... Read more »
Plants and Animals – The End of That {album review}
Lead Plant, Warren Spicer had this to say, “On this record, our gear that we play is the gear we play live. It has a more cohesive feeling to it.” On every prior Plants and Animals LP since I was bowled over my their with/avec LP; I have been underwhelmed on the first couple of spins. ... Read more »
Plants and Animals – The End of That {album review}
Lead Plant, Warren Spicer had this to say, “On this record, our gear that we play is the gear we play live. It has a more cohesive feeling to it.” On every prior Plants and Animals LP since I was bowled over my their with/avec LP; I have been underwhelmed on the first couple of spins. ... Read more »
Live Review: Plants and Animals at The EARL, June 5
They’ve surely tightened up: they began as an improvisational instrumental band until vocalist Warren Spicer joined a band where he contributed harmony vocals. With this taste for vocals, he went on to write more concise organized songs with words. This amalgam of free-improvisation with ... Read more »
Coral Egan The Year He Drove Me Crazy (2012) Free Downloads
... Tim Gowdyshe began a series of collaborative sessions with a group of Montreal musicians that included drummer Robbie Kuster and bassist Mishka Stein of Patrick Watson's bandpianist Jon Daybeatboxer Jason Levineas well as a guest appearance from guitarist Warren Spicer of Plants and Animals... Read more »
Plants and Animals underwhelm with tame show at Red Palace
Guitar player Warren Spicer offered some redemption for these songs with well-placed reedy and minimalist guitar riffs that carried the rest of the band. To their mostly older fans, Plants and Animals seemed to deliver just what they were looking for. But for anybody else, Plants and ... Read more »
Best New Music Releases (Week of Feb. 28) – PT Walkley, Memoryhouse, Geographer, Plants and
Next, the lead single, “Lightshow,” from Montreal indie rock band Plants and Animals‘ new album, The End of That, creates a sombre mood, driven predominantly by spirited, mostly acoustic guitar riffs, spunky drum beat rhythms and the somewhat discordant folksy vocals of Warren Spicer. ... Read more »
Daniel Isaiah
Laid to tape at the esteemed Treatment Room, his first solo adventure finds him joined by guests such as Warren Spicer (Plants and Animals), Joe Grass, Mike O’Brien, cellist Claude Lamothe and Sea Oleena. Isaiah’s Cohenesque tongue, Dylanesque twang and Beatlesque melodies roll a vibrant ... Read more »
