The Invention Of Animals is sort of a "Best Of John Lurie" record, pulling original tracks written for Fishing With John. That show's a classic, and the genesis of the off-beat, meditative TV genre as far as I'm concerned. See also: How To with John Wilson and Chillin Island.
Shit, a line break. Dunno if those're allowed or not. Feels like a dangerous precedent to set, what with these only being a paragraph and all...Right, just this once. What I meant to say was, as per usual, John Lurie's soundtrack stands up on its own. I didn't even know it was conceived for Fishing With John until I looked the album up for this post. The lushest of the lush of his work, The Invention Of Animals makes you feel like you're the subject of your very own nature documentary, and that's cool.
