Tiny Animals

"Sweet Sweetness, from NYC-based Tiny Animals, was one of my favorite discoveries this month (and by “discovery,” I mean a band whose promo CD stood head and shoulders above the stacks piled upon an extremely unorganized desk)." - Performing Songwriter

"I can easily picture the track “Useless” being played nonstop on MTV some hot summer day back in 1995." - Innocent Words Magazine

"They make unapologetically hooky mainstream-friendly rock with lots of ear-grabbing riffs."
-Tony Sclafani - Washington Post

Hilarious interview:

http://www.zoom-in.com/blog/music/katie-camosy/these-questions-go-to-eleven-tiny-animals - Zoom In Online Blog

"'Avalanche' is a better-than-average ballad featuring angelic sibling harmonies and lush string accompaniment." - Amplifier Magazine

http://metro.us/us/article/2009/03/24/03/0119-80/index.xml - Metro NY (SXSW 2008)

amNew York
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Tiny Animals
"Sweet Sweetness"

Siblings Chris and Rita Maye Howerton join forces in rock on their debut. Subverting the indie world's natural predilection for melodic complexity and inconclusive, nuance-laden lyrics, this NYC-based threesome (bassist Anton Kreisl joins the family unit) play a strain of bright chorus-centric modern rock little heard outside the head of Rivers Cuomo. With the welcome wrinkle of shared harmonies, "Sweetness" is often miles better than anything Clear Channel has to push on a workday afternoon.
(Charles Devilbiss)

- amNew York

Our debut single, "Useless", is getting spins on 92.3 K-Rock, NYC's premier rock station.

http://www.923krock.com/pages/3278049.php

We have also been getting some love from Boston's rock station, WFNX. Check it out here:

http://wfnx.com/shows/newenglandproduct/archive/2009/01/11/new-england-product-playlist-1-11-09.aspx - K-Rock & WFNX

http://www.spinner.com/2009/06/14/tiny-animals-all-the-way-down-free-mp3-of-the-day/ - AOL Spinner

Throughout the course of rock history, there have always seemed to be bands that just can't make up their minds as to whether they're a pop band or a rock band. Or rather, they tip their pop/rock stylings so far towards sticky sweet melodies that they're a rock band only in name. Case in point, Tiny Animals and their 2009 effort, the appropriately titled Sweet Sweetness. While there are some passing musical similarities to Weezer and the Strokes throughout, Tiny Animals are all about penning melodies that stick in your noggin like a pitchfork that you just can't break free from. For the supersonic proof, the album opening "Youth Today" is a good place to start, as well as "Useless" and "Goodbye July." Tiny Animals make no bones about their desire to pen straight-ahead pop nuggets, as heard throughout Sweet Sweetness.

-Greg Prato - All Music Guide