TITLE Omne Animal Triste
META Description Information on and downloads of Leonard Richardson's fifth album

<img alt="Omne Animal Triste front cover" src="front.png"><img
alt="Omne Animal Triste back cover" src="back.png">

<p>Omne Animal Triste is my first full album in over five years. Home
recording technology has made huge strides since 2001, and I'm also a better guitarist, so this album
sounds a little better than the previous ones. I used <a
href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/">Audacity</a> for multitrack
recording and <a href="http://www.hydrogen-music.org/">Hydrogen</a> as
a drum machine. Here are the tracks:

<ol>

<li><a href="lyrics.html#butter">Butter with Bulletproof Wings</a>:
The song I wanted to write eleven years ago, but I didn't know how. <a
href="ogg/Butter%20With%20Bulletproof%20Wings.ogg">(OGG)</a></li>

<li><a href="lyrics.html#mattress">Mattress King</a>: Jake Berendes
and I wrote this song by trading off and writing two lines at a
time. <a href="ogg/Mattress%20King.ogg">(OGG)</a></li>

<li><a href="lyrics.html#numbers">Gods and Numbers</a>: A
love song. <a href="ogg/Gods%20and%20Numbers.ogg">(OGG)</a></li>

<li><a href="lyrics.html#around">Get Around</a>: An "I Will Survive"
style jilted-woman anthem. Also, the jilted woman is Godzilla. <a
href="ogg/Get%20Around.ogg">(OGG)</a></li>

<li><a href="lyrics.html#terrestrial">Terrestrial Minds</a>: The song
that explains why space aliens prefer rural landing sites. <a
href="ogg/Terrestrial%20Minds.ogg">(OGG)</a></li>

<li><a href="lyrics.html#reality">Reality Does Not Meet My Needs</a>:
An antilove song. <a
href="ogg/Reality%20Does%20Not%20Meet%20My%20Needs.ogg">(OGG)</a></li>

<li><a href="lyrics.html#pollination">Polllination Techniques</a>: If
eusocial insects could write sappy songs you'd get something like
this. <a href="ogg/Pollination%20Techniques.ogg">(OGG)</a></li>

<li><a href="lyrics.html#tomorrow">Tomorrow</a>: A song about what
happens after things stop happening. <a
href="ogg/Tomorrow.ogg">(OGG)</a> This song is a sequel of sorts to <a
href="/music/nst/mp3/40-Malibu.mp3">"Malibu"</a> off of <i>Nowhere
Standard Time</i>.

</li> 

<li><a href="lyrics.html#lowbrow">Sweet &amp; Lowbrow</a>: A song
about growing up. Probably the best song on the album. <a
href="ogg/Sweet%20&%20Lowbrow.ogg">(OGG)</a></li>

</ol>

<p>Or just <a href="ogg/">grab all the OGGs</a> or <a
href="mp3/">MP3s</a>.

<p><i>[Note: although the music and lyrics are licensed as CC-BY-SA,
the cover images are taken from sources not licensed for commercial
use.]