Orange Animal - Place for Me [EP]

Orange Animal, the Cleveland–Akron motel-folk/rock band, recently released their first single, “Place for Me,” creating their break-out moment with high praise from SPIN Magazine, Now Hear This: June 2026.

This is the title track from The Place for Me EP (June 26, 2026) that is Orange Animal’s first release since signing with London/Brooklyn based record label, Paper Garden Records in March. The single released with a brooding music video following two people near each other but letting go. “It’s really just an imperfect plea to be remembered by someone you love.”

SPIN writer, Ron Hart, calls it “Dark, gothic country balladry in the spirit of The Boatman’s Call-era Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.”

Compared with Orange Animal’s 2024 album, Still Frames, and 2025 single, Sweet Heartache, The Place for Me EP is a new chapter. It’s intentionally stripped back and reflective. “By and large, the songs are quiet and slow. The whole EP is kind of sad,” John Ramsey, Orange Animal’s frontman explains. “But it ends with a stubborn conviction to simply hold on.”

Orange Animal recorded these songs at Suma Recording Studio– “The studio is out in the woods. We lived there, spent the night there, fully immersed in the process.” Ramsey said.

Ramsey’s writing is instinctive. “It’s less of an inspired venture. It’s not that fancy. I just hear something and put it down. But once I hear it, it becomes a compulsion. And sometimes, like with these songs, it scrapes off large parts of me.”

But Ramsey quickly emphasizes that Orange Animal is his family and these songs don’t exist without his bandmates. “Bill (bass) and Adam (drums) have been with me from the beginning. For nearly a decade they’ve been willing to go with me on every adventure.”