Unessential Oils is the new project from Warren Spicer, singer of the Montreal band Plants and Animals. The project draws inspiration from jazz, folk, Tropicália, Jorge Ben, Daniel Lanois, Miles Davis, and more. The music was conceived in a bathtub. Very open and malleable, it has been compared to Alabaster DePlume, Connan Mockasin, Hermanos Gutiérrez, and Devendra Banhart.