"Classic, literate songwriting" (Performing Songwriter Magazine), with electronic and orchestral elements deftly blended with guitars and drums. Full of heart and humor, "unique and inspired." (All Music Guide) The electronic and orchestral textures that characterized Home By Now are still there, but the songwriting is much sharper and the musicianship tighter. The production, again by the Animators themselves, is more ambitious and assured. Mixing by Joe Chiccarelli (U2, Rufus Wainright, Cafe Tecuba) and mastering by Emily Lazar (David Bowie, the Shins, John Mayer) burnishes the Animators' characteristic sound to a professional sheen. And the lyrics have a determined quality to them that's hard to miss -- a hard-won optimism. "It's good to be here," Copley sings on the opening track. "It's good to be gone."

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