Review of “Memory” - Tiny Mix Tapes

Discussing his latest album, Boston native Kevin Micka, a.k.a. Animal Hospital, seems well aware of music’s uncanny ability to engage the imagination, to interact with the listener’s individual life experience and memory. Primarily, Micka hopes the listener will develop a personal connection to his songs and will “project their own meanings into the music.” While… READ MORE

Review of “Memory” - Pitchfork

Boston’s Animal Hospital is a one-man band, with all the old-school connotations that term implies. When I saw Kevin Micka play last summer in D.C., he was surrounded by a drum kit, guitars, and a table full of effects, multi-tasking on them not unlike a street-corner showman with a bass drum strapped to his back and a… READ MORE

A One-Man Band Becomes an Orchestra - blurredvisionary

Kevin Micka has long been Boston’s most modest, capable and prolific sonic architect. Those of us who have followed his work know he’s rarely one to hype up his own. Whether it be recording and mixing some of the city’s best rock records, building microphones, repairing instruments, touring with friends’ bands, or performing… READ MORE

An Experiment in Surround Sound - Boston Globe

The surround sound you hear at a concert is ultimately technological trickery – the woofers in the back of a venue, the speakers hanging from the rafters. Sunday’s performance by Animal Hospital Ensemble at the Massachusetts College of Art, meanwhile, was authentically immersive. The crowd of over 200 filed into the Pozen Center… READ MORE