Animal Nature
{{Infobox album
| name = Animal Nature
| type = studio
| artist = Escort
| cover = Escort - Animal Nature.png
| alt =
| released = October 30, 2015
| genre = Nu-disco
| length = 41:41
| label = Escort
| producer =
- Dan Balis
- Eugene Cho{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/dance/6715368/escort-animal-nature-interview |first=Paley |last=Martin |title=Escort Talks Modern Disco, New York City & Experiencing Your Animal Nature |magazine=Billboard |date=October 23, 2015}}
| prev_title = Escort
| prev_year = 2011
| next_title = City Life
| next_year = 2019
}}
Animal Nature is the second album by an American nu-disco band Escort, released on October 30, 2015, through Escort Records. The album consists of ten new tracks along with "a handful of alternate edits and remixes of album cuts".{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/disco-funk-group-escort-detail-long-awaited-new-album-animal-nature-44371/ |title=Disco-Funk Group Escort Detail Long-Awaited New Album, Animal Nature |first=Jon |last=Blistein |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=August 4, 2015}}
Reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{Allmusic|class=album |id=mw0002868595 |first=Andy |last=Kellman |title=Escort – Animal Nature: Review |accessdate=March 20, 2021}}
| rev2 = Pitchfork
| rev2score = 6.8/10{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21273-animal-nature/ |first=Ilana |last=Kaplan |title=Animal Nature |website=Pitchfork |date=November 13, 2015 |accessdate=March 21, 2021}}
}}
In a review for Pitchfork, Ilana Kaplan says the album is a more polished production then the band's debut with a little less funk, moving from "funk disco into a late '70s disco/early '80s synth phase, blurring genre lines," and Escort has "hit a nostalgic sweet spot that will never grow old."
Andy Kellman of AllMusic states that "Animal Nature comes across more as the work of a band than of a studio project" and contains "references to specific disco and post-disco artists and bygone production touches less obvious, a little more concealed than they are on the 2011 album." The standout track is "Body Talk", which Kellman calls "a gleaming compound of early-'80s boogie and early-'90s house."
Andy Battaglia of NPR says the members of the band are "vintage dance-music precisionists" but their goal for Animal Nature "is more than just disco in a wide-eyed sound that peers out to stare down the many decades since." He also praises the album's production value, calling it "slick and stylish and light — clearly in thrall to the sound it revisits."{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2015/10/21/449201044/first-listen-escort-animal-nature |first=Andy |last=Battaglia |title=Review: Escort, Animal Nature |website=NPR |date=October 21, 2015 |accessdate=March 21, 2021}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
|headline = Animal Nature track listing
|total_length = 41:41
|title1 = Body Talk
|length1 = 4:39
|title2 = Temptation
|length2 = 3:35
|title3 = Barbarians
|length3 = 3:15
|title4 = If You Say So
|length4 = 4:25
|title5 = Helium
|length5 = 4:48
|title6 = Animal Nature
|length6 = 4:29
|title7 = My Life
|length7 = 3:28
|title8 = Actor Out of Work
|length8 = 3:25
|title9 = Cabaret
|length9 = 3:17
|title10 = Dancer
|length10 = 6:20
}}
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