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...Anyone with the ability to count could have predicted the Final Four. In fact, Kelly Evans ’10 did just that, and picked the higher seed in every single game. She’s currently in third place out of 115 entries in the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective??s pool. (This puts her 24 places ahead of yours truly. Ever the non-conformist, I spiced up my bracket with a two seed, Duke, and a three seed, Louisville. So much for originality...
...leave you breathless by the end, “#1” gives in entirely to electronic elements, and album-closer “Derek” revisits the band’s early obsession with acoustic folk. At the core of all this schizophrenic songwriting, however, is Animal Collective??s strongest diptych yet—two songs, thirteen minutes all together, and the closest thing to a mission statement by the band. They’ve always been aware that song pairs can unlock synergistic power—see 2004’s “Sung...
...SUVs rushing on the other side. Everything seems to move faster nowadays: letters gave way BlackBerrys, caravels to Airbuses, and courting seasons to one-night-stands. A sort of immaterial internal combustion engine must have changed the world faster than time changed Borges. History—personal and collective??has sped up, and the battle for how the past is remembered has intensified. A historian might fight it for the dismembered British Empire, Christians for their often misinterpreted savior, and a bored girlfriend for the idyllic first date. But that old cliché about controlling the past only...
...packed concerts featuring student bands. “The Collective has been a place for exciting free shows... Low-lights, small room, a stage with a band, a keg, friends—everything but a smoke machine,” says J.P. Sharp ’07, the Collective??s coordinator. “The bands love it, and trust me, if you come, you’ll love it as a spectator...
Animal Collective brings “Feels” full circle with “Turn Into Something,” a hook-laden pop melody that could have ended the Collective??s Brooklyn brethren Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s album if they too had gotten lost in the woods. With this appropriately titled ending, you’re forced to wonder, just what is Animal Collective becoming...