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A note from Golden Animals:

"Hi! We are Golden Animals -A gold-sparkled, new millennium, twosome rock band from... People ask us where we're from, we say, "All over". This is easier than saying "Linda grew up in Northern Sweden and Tommy in Baltimore, Maryland. They met in Brooklyn, formed a band and are now stationed in Joshua Tree, California."

We recorded an EP in Brooklyn in 2006 and then moved out to the desert in California in 2007 to write our first full-length album and escape the trials of city life. Not knowing where we'd end up, we found a posting on the magical internet for a house sitter by the Salton Sea, just after arriving West.

We had no idea where this was, but replied to the ad and agreed to take the job as long as we could play rock & roll music as loud as possible whenever we wanted. Since it was the hottest part of the desert and we arrived for the summer months, every sane person who could leave the area had left, avoiding temperatures that can exceed 120°.

Five months went by and many mind blowing things happened to us out there. We saw boiling rivers, rainbow mountains, screaming red sunsets, holes in the ground puking up mud- all that naturally transpires when nature thinks no one is looking. Also, the man we happened to be house-sitting for had written a book called Children Of The Sun, which we think everyone should read. It explains the history of natural living before it became pop in the 60's.

Well, all the while we were working on this new album, we felt very free, society felt (and was) very far away. We made a record and called it "Free Your Mind and Win a Pony."

Produced by Chris Coady (TV on The Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs). Mixed By Thom Monahan (Pernice Brothers, Devendra Banhart).

Global Music Press:

"When they rock out in the faux-blues readymade "The Steady Roller," you can practically inhale the pungent aroma of their pirate shirts. They're a marriage made in psychedelic desert-blues heaven." Blender

"Unpolished sound from ghostly echoes of 60's West Coast Psychedelia 50's rock and roll and swampy old blues. They have a nice, semi-chaotic way about them" Mojo

"Their ragged eclecticism is a winning one, taking detours into slide country, beat up folk and starry desert ballads" Uncut

"Transcends the limitations of their rudimentary set up. Album highlight "Queen Mary (The Flop) features multiple tempo changes and builds to an electrifying frenzy which must go down a storm in a live setting. "Ride Easy" begins as a tender country plodder, but undertakes several detours with satisfying results" DrownedInSound.com

"An intense blend of scratchy blues riffs, woozy psych, and walloped drums" NME

"They know how to riff with atomic force" Dazed and Confused