Animal Electricity

“There’s an imposter/singing/in the choir in my head. And I was waiting/for you to notice/that I have not been my best. And I needed your kindness.” Full of bittersweet lyrics and twinkling guitars, “Ghostwrite Your Alibi”, the newest release from the Denver-based Animal Electricity, finds singer Chris Carrington and company exploring disillusionment, hopefulness, and the passage of time with grace and style.

But for Carrington, writing and singing his own songs was never a part of the plan. After moving to Denver in 2005, he responded to a “musicians wanted” Craigslist ad, and the seeds of Animal Electricity were planted. When the original singer left the band, Carrington happened to be the guy left standing closest to the mic. Though at first he sang, as he recalls, “so quiet that no one could hear me,” songs and confidence eventually followed. Over the next two decades, the band (with various lineups and under multiple names) cut its teeth in Denver’s club scene, opening for artists like Nathaniel Rateliff (before he was that Nathaniel Rateliff), David Wax Museum, Cataldo, and Sarah Jaffe. In 2014, Carrington wrote music for the Colorado PBS documentary “Neal Cassady: The Denver Years,” an opportunity which even led him to play for some of Cassady’s surviving relatives at what had been Cassady and Kerouac's favorite Denver bar. In 2015, Animal Electricity was cemented as the band’s name, and their first release “Unfit for Man or Beast” was released.

Recorded over the course of a year in Denver, Colorado, “Ghostwrite Your Alibi” is Animal Electricity’s fifth full-length album. The band tapped veteran engineer Jeff Kanan (Liz Phair, The Swayback) to record and mix the album at The Keep Recording in Denver.