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Animal Kingdom are a three piece comprising Richard Sauberlich (Vocals/Guitar/Piano), Hamish Crombie (Bass), Geoff Lea (Drums).  

Their debut album ‘Signs and Wonders’ was recorded by Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes/The Shins) in Seattle and released on Warner Brothers in 2009. The first single ‘Tin Man’ was Itunes ‘Single of the Week’ and Itunes named them ‘Best New Alternative Act’.  

Support tours with Vampire Weekend, Band of Horses, Snow Patrol and Silversun Pickups followed, as well as numerous festival appearances in the UK and Europe.  

Songs taken from the album were synched on various feature films and TV shows including ‘Never Let Me Go’ (staring Keira Knightly) and HBO’s ‘Big Love’.  

The NME has described them as:  

‘Achingly beautiful celestial indie…Will have Sigur Ros quivering with envy.’  

The Fly Magazine said:  

‘Their live presence is a resounding and cinematically cosmic experience…Their debut swells with spiritually melancholic masterpieces’  

XFM’s Jon Kennedy named ‘Chalk Stars’ his ‘Song of the Year’.  

And Radio 1’s Zane Lowe called ‘Chalk Stars’ ‘a stunning piece of music’.  

The band write and rehearse in an old church in North London. They’ve just completed their second album – with Bat For Lashes/Everything Everything producer David Kosten and are signed to Universal in Germany and BoomBox in the US. They are managed by QPrime for the World.  

The first single to be taken from their new album will be STRANGE ATTRACTOR.