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...Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished,” Animal Collective??s debut album, stands as a testament to the band’s penchant for wild, digital tones, both stretched thin as paper and heaped on each other to bombard the listener with an impenetrable wall of sound...
...Feels” is still marked by the serendipitous noises that adorn all of the Collective??s albums, but they are invariably the icing on a tortuous pop cake. “Did You See the Words” starts the album with energized guitar riffs, driving drum rhythms, and a twinkling piano that surge into place like watch gears...
Even Avey Tare’s distinctive crooning, accompanied by the obligatory yelps and squeals, has attained a veteran pop sensibility that masks the Collective??s previously amorphous noise tendencies. “Grass” and “The Purple Bottle” continue this energetic romp through pop’s playground, as if to prove that this new tendency for foot-tapping hooks and beats is here to stay...
...scene. But the market for trippy harmonics that the Georgian collective once served has been cornered for the moment by even weirder psychedelic varietals, and the mantle that rests on Barnes’ shoulders comes now with slightly dimmed rainbow-watercolor sheen and a koan-like paradox. With the collective??s founders dispersed to side projects and Powerpuff soundtracks—or, in Jeff Mangum’s case, last sighted piloting a transatlantic aeroplane somewhere near Amelia Earhart’s—does Elephant 6 still matter...
...sung and strummed by a slightly stoned campfire. Need a hint? The band is named after a large, hibernatory forest dweller. Those who paid close attention to 2004’s underground hype would probably buzz in within picoseconds. “This is obviously another spinoff from Animal Collective??the critically-acclaimed two-piece that dominated the ’04 with long-player Sung Tongs and a solo debut from member Panda Bear. Next question, please...