Announcing Smaller Animals' latest album, "17".

It is the 17th album and features the hits "Hills" and "Heavy Decibels" , as well as several as-of-yet unreleased gems that will have your and your whole family moving and grooving.

Time to wrap this album up. It's been in progress for far too long. The oldest song here, "Blue Demeanor", was finished in September 2021. And the latest, "Baloney", was finished last week.

I give you WIP.

(Work In Progress)

Bonus fact: six of the titles are puns related to the scale/mode use in that song. When there are no lyrics, what a song is about isn't always obvious, so titles don't mean much. Obviously, there's nothing about a Delorean in the instrumental "Delorian Dream", but it is in D Dorian. At one point, there was a concept to do all songs in modes of D (because D is really handy on a guitar neck).

At the time, I didn't know King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard used a similar concept for their fun 2022 album "Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava" - each song is in a different mode, and the first letter of each title identifies the mode.

This has been my project for the past month. The song took a week or so, and then the video took a solid two weeks in Blender, because Blender is a vast and puzzling and frustrating monster of an application that can do almost anything but doesn't give you any clue about how you can do anything so every step is a Google search.

Anyway.

[updated]

Please enjoy the salty grind of Smaller Animals' "Salt Lick":