Plants and Animals: Parc Avenue

As the cover might suggest, Plants and Animals' full-length debut is ambitious to say the least. The songs on Parc Avenue are giant, complex productions that bear immense rewards without demanding too much from the listener. The album is like a Broadway rock opera unfolding spontaneously in a forest, staged by strangers that have little in common except a cooperative disposition and a love for Canadian indie rock. Such lofty goals are rarely as fully realized by anyone, let alone by such relative newcomers as Plants and Animals