Album Info

Rabbit Habits

Alternative - 2008

Known for their deliriously wild live shows, this Philadelphia five-piece has slowly gained an audience appreciative of their particular brand... more

Tracklist

1

Mister Jung Stuffed

2:27 min
2

Hurly / Burly

3:51 min
3

The Ballad of Butter Beans

4:28 min
4

Big Trouble

5:05 min
5

Mysteries of the Universe Unraveled

0:08 min
6

Doo Right

1:38 min
7

Easy Eats or Dirty Doctor Galapagos

2:24 min
8

Harpoon Fever (Queequeg's Playhouse)

3:19 min
9

El Azteca

1:43 min
10

Rabbit Habits

2:48 min
11

Top Drawer

3:26 min
12

Poor Jackie

8:23 min
13

Whalebones

7:14 min

About Rabbit Habits

Known for their deliriously wild live shows, this Philadelphia five-piece has slowly gained an audience appreciative of their particular brand of sonic adventure, and Rabbit Habits take a small (but necessary) step in a more accessible direction. Known prog rockers like Zappa and Beefheart are inevitable touchstones, but so are more current, globally influenced artists such as Devotchka and the now defunct 3 Mustaphas 3. Squalling sousaphone, inebriated marimbas, screeching guitars and two-stepping drums (and more drums) provide the color for vocalist Honus Honus’ Tom Wait-ish growl, the music swaggering from one soundtrack to another: a dingy, eastern European punk rock club (“Mister Jung,” “Easy Eats,” “Top Drawer”), a New Orleans funeral (“Big Trouble”), a late-night piano bar (“Doo Right”), a Raymond Scott cartoon score (“The Ballad of Butter Beans”). The zig-zagging post-rock of “Hurly Burly” and the multi-flavored mayhem of “Harpoon Fever” are fairly intoxicating, but the somber, poetic telling of “Poor Jackie” and “Whalebones” will sober you right up (there’s a novel in those songs, waiting to get out). Impressive, from both a musical and lyrical standpoint, and definitely new.