''Parc Avenue'' is the first full-length album by
Canadian
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...
indie rock
Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produc ...
band
Plants and Animals
Plants and Animals are a Canadian indie-rock band from Montreal (featuring two members originally from Nova Scotia) which comprises guitarist-vocalists Warren Spicer and Nic Basque and drummer-vocalist Matthew Woody Woodley. The trio began playin ...
, released February 26, 2008 on
Secret City Records
Secret City Records is a Canadian independent record label based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The music label was founded in 2006 by Andrew Rose and Justin West, originally as sublabel of Justin Time Records. It became fully independent in late ...
.
The album was a nominee for the
2008 Polaris Music Prize
The 2008 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 30, 2008, at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto. The prize was won by Caribou for his album ''Andorra''.
Unlike in prior years, the Polaris Prize committee did ...
.
In 2018 the band released a 10th anniversary reissue of the album, featuring several unreleased early demo tracks as bonus features.
[Calum Slingerland]
"Plants and Animals Treat 'Parc Avenue' to Expanded 10th Anniversary Reissue"
'' Exclaim!'', February 14, 2018.
Track listing
# "Bye Bye Bye"
# "Good Friend"
# "Faerie Dance"
# "Feedback in the Field"
# "À l'orée des bois"
# "New Kind of Love"
# "Early in the Morning"
# "Mercy"
# "Sea Shanty"
# "Keep It Real"
# "Guru"
2018 reissue bonus tracks
# "EYB EYB EYB"
# "Bar frontière"
# "Garden Party"
# "Towels"
# "Wall of Pain"
# "Professor"
# "Facecloth"
# "Shitstorm"
References
2008 albums
Plants and Animals albums
Secret City Records albums
{{2000s-indie-rock-album-stub