Certain Animals

For their second full-length album, Certain Animals have delved even deeper into their quest for
what they consider to be good music. Drenched in a vast knowledge of their musical heroes from
the 60s and 70s like Electric Light Orchestra, Supertramp and of course The Beatles, the band takes
you on an eclectic and emotional musical journey through a pastoral past.

On Arts & Crafts the band displays their view of life without hesitations or pretentiousness, and are
open, honest and full of love about what that brings them. Love and hope, and their counterparts,
mourning and loss, are presented on this record with glowing musicality. Reinforced by even more
melodic polyphony than on their very well-received debut album Songs To Make You Move, and
with a more pronounced role for keys and hammond, Certain Animals propagates a message of
positivity, sometimes against better knowledge.

Certain Animals is more accessible than ever on Arts & Crafts without making concessions. The band feels free and effortlessly combines velvety seventies melodies with roaring Hammonds, AC/DC boogies with Beatle ballads and glam rock with a gentle touch.

As dutch tv and radio personality Leo Blokhuis puts it: 'If you have such a wonderful band as Certain Animals, you play it with lots of love.'

The band:
Thijs van Leeuwen – guitar, vocals
Niels-Jan van Dijk – bass, vocals
Quint Vullings – hammond/keys, vocals
Rick van de Voort – drums, vocals