Listen to Animals As Leaders – “Tooth and Claw”

by | Feb 18, 2014

We’ll never forget the time we interviewed Animals As Leaders and the loudest car horn we ever heard went off (you can find here at 6:50).  Is that really necessary on Sunset Blvd? Pretty sure we peed our pants a little.

We don’t have an obnoxious horn to catch you off guard, but perhaps a new Animals As Leaders song will. Their new album The Joy of Motion comes out next month, and the first single from it got put out today. It’s called “Tooth and Claw.”

Next week the band will kick off their US tour with After The Burial, Navene-K, and CHON. The Joy of Motion will be released on March 25th.

Is it us, or does this remind you of Veil of Maya?

Animals As Leaders tour dates w/ After The Burial, Navene-K, & CHON:

Feb 24 Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum
Feb 25 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
Feb 26 Greensboro, NC @ Greene Street Club
Feb 27 Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live
Feb 28 Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero
Mar 02 New York City, NY @ Irving Plaza
Mar 03 Boston, MA @ House of Blues
Mar 04 Montreal, QC @ La Tulipe
Mar 05 Toronto, ON @ Opera House
Mar 06 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews
Mar 07 Joliet, IL @ Mojoes
Mar 08 Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
Mar 09 Minneapolis, MN @ Skyway Theatre
Mar 10 Des Moines, IA @ Wooly’s
Mar 11 St. Louis, MO @ Pop’s
Mar 13 Houston, TX @ Fitzgeralds’
Mar 18 Denver, CO @ The Summit Music Hall
Mar 19 Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue
Mar 21 Calgary, AB @ Republik
Mar 22 Edmonton, AB @ Starlite Room
Mar 24 Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
Mar 25 Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
Mar 26 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne
Mar 27 Sacramento, CA @ Assembly
Mar 28 San Francisco, CA @ Regency
Mar 29 Las Vegas, NV @ Extreme Thing (AAL ONLY)
Mar 30 Los Angeles, CA @ Roxy

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