ANIMALS AS LEADERS (DEW DROP & SKY BLUE VINYL) | VINYL RECORD (LP) E McNerney recalled the summers of

McNerney recalled the summers of his youth

different instruments are played at each pulse

and the masks we wear in this world

Distinguishing themselves from the swarm of everyone else with their 2010 opus a DETERMINISM OF MORALITY

ANIMALS AS LEADERS (DEW DROP & SKY BLUE VINYL) | VINYL RECORD (LP) E McNerney recalled the summers ofWhen Tosin Abasi released his self titled debut solo album under the moniker Animals as Leaders in 2009, few would have predicted the band's meteoric rise over the following years. Although Abasi earned acclaim as the lead guitarist in the Washington, D. C. based metalcore act Reflux, it was still a long shot that an instrumental album of progressive metal with jazz, electronic and ambient flourishes would develop anything more than a cult following.