Animal Collective continues to be one of experimental rock's favorite science projects, and fans are eating up Strawberry Jam. Their latest oddysey, through which freak-folk - or psych folk - takes another phonetically modified step into its sonic evolution, leaving us discombobulated as to where such may lead. Or what their tracks may be doing to our collective id.
Their sound is not easy to pin down because the band members themselves struggle with the same task. Founding member Avey Tare admitted, "a lot of times when we’ve written a song and it takes so long to realize that we all had a different idea of what the rhythm or melody of the song was." Like sparkling fireworks spinning off in different directions, that eventually return to their original studio launching pad.
mp3 @ 20minutes.fr (winter wonder land - animal collective)
mp3 @ blogsr4dogs.com (fireworks - animal collective)
mp3 @ blogsr4dogs (safer - animal collective)
mp3 @ iguessimfloating.net (derek - animal collective)
mp3 @ littleradio.com (on a plain - animal collective)
mp3 @ movedigital.com (chores - animal collective)
mp3 @ movedigital.com (for reverend green - animal collective)
mp3 @ obscuresound.com (unsolved mysteries - animal collective)
mp3 @ themuso.co.za (peacebone - animal collective)
video @ youtube (peacebone)
video @ imeem (fireworks)
player @ myspace
label @ paw-tracks
