Sweet Unknown is Ceramic Animal's third album and the first one for Dan Auerbach's label Easy Eye Sound. The band come from Doylestown Pennsylvania and feature the three Regan brothers Chris, Erik and Elliott alongside Anthony Marchione and Dallas Hosey.
The album opens with the acoustic strum of Tangled a song full of begging and pleading for the love of his life to stay around a bit longer, this has a rather gently uplifting feel to it as he tries to figure it out and find a way for them to stay entwined.
I Can't Wait is a bit more urgent and is the sound of someone who just can't wait to be back in your loving arms once more, this has a dark college rock feel to it, as they spin a few promises and lines, to make the object of there desires jump into bed with them once more or for the first time, this is perfect for college kids to mime or sing along to as they try to get lucky at the college disco.
I Love A Stranger has a slinky disco rock feel as the lyrical seduction gets under way as he tries to convince you that he really does love you, even though he's never met you before, Ah we’ve all met this kind of lothario, he thinks he's god's gift and that you will melt to his very will, this song may help or it may make you run away from him.
Long Day is a languid plaintive indie soul song of lustful thoughts and careworn guitars and gentle drumming as they hope to get to stay up all night long with that special one.
Forever Song is rather reflective and is full of loss and pain and this could easily be a reflection of the fact that the Regan Brothers lost there father just before they recorded this album.
Sweet Unknown is slow reflective and full of sadness and a small glimmer of hope that they won't have to go through everything alone, with an almost nursery rhyme style piano part, as the sadness threatens to engulf them.
Up In Smoke is far more upbeat like they have taken a few deep bong hits of some Apple Fritter and are nicely up and ready to take on the world once more, as the countrified slide guitar weaves in and out of the acoustic guitar to make sure you feel he really can make it on his own.
Private Dancer has psyche ejaculations in the midst of reflective quieter parts as they hope that the Private Dancer in question will actually allow for some actual contact, they can really let go like the guitars do, as they hope they really will be allowed to touch as well as look.
I Don't Wanna Wait is laid back pleading for some love and redemption, time to let your differences fall away as you just let love in and find happiness, this is rather sweetly insistent.
The album closes with Valerie that isn't a cover of The Kooks/Drink The Winehouse Classic, but a good upbeat heartlands chugging rocker to convince Valerie that she really does need another song about her and that this one will win her over, even more than the last one did, as the guitars let rip and the organ helps drag her out onto the dancefloor in time to submit to all the pleading they are doing.
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