Night Animals

‘Night Animals’ contains two dreamlike, wordless stories that transform everyday experiences into fantastic journeys to strange new worlds. In the first story, a coming-of-age tale called ‘Bad Friends’, Evens envisions a young girl’s transition into womanhood. Rather than awkward conversations or metaphors about flowers, however, ‘Bad Friends’ intentionally evokes the imagery of ‘Where the Wild Things Are’, but transforms it from a small boy’s power fantasy into a young woman’s realization of a very different sort of power — one that is exciting, sexual, and ultimately dangerous.

In the second story, ‘Blind Date’, we follow a man who dresses like a bunny for a date that ultimately never arrives, prompting him to take a lonely voyage down a toilet into a strange, underwater world. Brecht Evens' third album surprises with stories and images in which he continually seems to extend the limits of his capabilities.