Mythwits
Wild Manimals
S3 • E29 Aug 8, 2016
The Manimals marry party rock with poetry to produce raucous anthems and inspire sing-alongs and dancing wherever they go. A female-fronted, genre-bending five-piece, The Manimals bring to mind hints of David Bowie, Joan Jett, The New York Dolls, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Blondie. Their ecstatic, cathartic live show is a throwback to the wild thrills of early punk rock, but with lyrical intensity and melodic heights rarely found in its modern iterations. Their vibrant and aggressive debut album, Born Strange, was released in 2012. SEVEN, a geeky glam-rock concept album lovingly based on George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, was released in April 2016. Like the source material, it's searingly emotional and seriously epic.
