On Wild Animals, Trampled by Turtles' seventh studio album, themes of impermanence run deep, both lyrically and sonically. The quintet's hybrid folk sound continues its evolution pushing the band further into the grey area between genres that defies pigeonholing. Trampled By Turtles formed in 2003 in Duluth, Minnesota. From their beginnings on the Midwestern festival circuit, they have reached new heights with each album. Wild Animals found Trampled by Turtles working with a producer for the first time in four studio records. The band placed themselves in the capable hands of longtime Duluth, MN compatriot Alan Sparhawk of the band Low and engineer B.J. Burton (Polica, Megafaun, Volcano Choir) who crafted a sonic landscape that was spatial and new at Cannon Falls, MN's Pachyderm Studio (Nirvana, the Jayhawks). Wild Animals is the sound of a band at the peak of their potential, strengthened from a decade together, winning some and losing some, but growing none-the-less. The album captures the intense nature that goes with being alive, melding the universal and the personal.