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Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
Released: 03/09/2012
Domino
After the stratospheric success of 2009's Merriweather Post Pavilion (cementing their status as titans of experimental pop) Animal Collective return with a tenth album that features all four members together for the first time in five years. Unusually, the group wrote and recorded the album together in Baltimore, resulting in a raw sound reminiscent of their early records.
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70 %
Drowned In Sound“There are some sloggy songs and some slaggy moments...” It’s not a major album, but are Animal Collective obliged to make major albums? I might draw parallels with Radiohead’s The King of Limbs, another low key, late career record that got lambasted for not being earth shatteringly brilliant...
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74 %
Pitchfork“Feels like someone throwing a burrito on your windshield...” It becomes increasingly apparent that Centipede Hz's over-caffeinated energy comes at the expense of what, for all their restless creativity, has always been Animal Collective's greatest virtue-- their patience...
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70 %
allmusic“Another strange and oozing collection of experiments...” An album of numerous skittering layers, replacing the ambient pop elements of previous albums with slight Brazilian touches, fuzzy electronic bashing, and even more unrecognizable gurgling samples than usual...
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80 %
BBC“It will infect you, quite deliciously, for the foreseeable...” Dense and detailed, invigorating and intoxicating. It requires a musical aperitif prior to experiencing, or else the listener risks being overwhelmed by the sensory rush...
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80 %
NME“Where ‘Merriweather…’ was serene, ‘Centipede Hz’ is schizophrenic” A flawed and imperfect jumble of garish colours and disconnected sensations, the work of what is technically a rock band, albeit one operating far outside the usual conventions. It’s chaotic and confounding...
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80 %
The Independent“The most and the least pop record of the autumn...” The experimental psychedelicists' ninth album feels akin to hearing a Smile-era Beach Boys song in your sleep while roadwork drills pound outside your window, and your brain re-editing the sounds into new dream-logic shapes...
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60%
Guardian“Harsher, busier, more hectic and blustering...” Once you adjust to the new method and peer through the layers of detail and clustered production, these are often quite conventional – if meandering – indie-rock songs...
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90%
Clash Music“They’ve created something that’s out of this world...” Centepede Hz’ is somehow both futuristically innovative and welcomingly accessible. Amid the obscurantism caused by white noise and radio interference are strong choruses likely to get any form of life dancing...
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60%
The Observer“There is rarely a pause to draw breath...” Probably brings AnCo another molecule's width closer to the mainstream; retaining all the dislocation and unevenness that their fans treasure but remapping it on to more recognisable instruments...
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