Album Notes

A Decent Animal is a swaggering atmospheric rock trio from Charleston, SC recently relocated to San Francisco, CA. ADA was formed by long time band mates J.K.Nicholson and R.G.Weld. After and enlightening recording experience at Charlotte, NC's Sioux-Sioux Studio the duo added G.P.Baerreis and immediately began writing new material. The songs began telling longer stories with sophisticated instrumentation. Soon they would solidify their collaborative writing style, developing a genuinely unique sound. ADA has never felt like it belonged to a specific genre allowing them the freedom to write songs that are fiercely personal. With a well established sound in place ADA took to the highway touring extensively over the past year and sharing the stage with many great local and national acts like Band of Horses, Modest Mouse, Love as Laughter, Lake Trout, Lindsay Holler, Slowrunner and many more. Nicholson's vocals are rugged yet have a delicacy that when paired with Weld and Baerreis' harmonies create a powerfully haunting sound. Live, the three play as many as six instruments at a given time keeping their audience visually engaged with a contagious energy. Find a decent animal and love it.

Album Review from the Charleston City Paper:
"The mellow, six-song disc recently released by local band, A Decent Animal, makes apparent the notion that its not necessary for music to be complicated to be good. Richard Weld introduces the album with the bass line of Bird, and continues to implement the electric bass, along with Jonathan Nicholsons acoustic guitar, to create a nearly haunting effect throughout the remainder of The Rabbit Hole EP. Maintaining integrity with thoughtful, loosely substantial lyrics, Nicholson wails on songs like Adell where the demonstrated fusion of his and Welds voices is sometimes chilling. The sixth song and title track, Rabbit Hole, kicks it up a notch with a full drum kit and a jazzy baritone sax. Adopting similar concepts pioneered by the credible Tom Waits, a Decent Animal provides a unique layering of instruments and sounds that sometimes follow no specific rhyme or reason. Embracing such concepts, the music remains simple and slightly unpolished at times, spotted with dangling sounds and missed notes [that arguably add only to the appeal of the album]. Consequently, the EP exhibits the refreshing rawness and purity that render ADAs music, not merely decent, but lovely and unique."

Jamie Resch