Informed in equal parts by acid-fried psychosis, crop-circle field recordings, and an elephants-on-the-loose circus thrash aesthetic, Animal Collective's fourth full-length album rests roughly at the meeting point between psychedelic, /p>
oise, and folk music. Here Comes the Indian begins gently enough with "Native Belle," a moody set piece that belies the album's clatter with 12 minutes of constrained rhythmic builds, drones, and squeaks. Things quickly explode with the searing "Hey Light," a lightning bolt of electrocuted brass and human wails that sends the album careening into psychoactive delirium. Since everything that follows -- from the shrieking brattle of "Two Sails on a Sound" to the enchanted tribal vocal exercises of "Slippi" to the slow-building celebratory scuttle of "Too Soon" -- feels similarly crazed, drug-induced, and apparitional, Here Comes the Indian makes for particularly lucid listening. Brash, crass, and texturally magnificent, this is well worth seeking out.
I'm in the middle of a fiery teenage debacle. You see, I'm reading The Picture of Dorian Gray for AP Brit Lit and, as Sam said, it's pretty much "blah blah blah blah YOUTH blah blah The Establishment sucks blah blah blah intellect doesn't matter blah Sibyl Vane is perfect."I guess I wonder sometimes whether or not Oscar Wilde was right - if intellect is more important than material objects, ta...
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I'm in the middle of a fiery teenage debacle. You see, I'm reading The Picture of Dorian Gray for AP Brit Lit and, as Sam said, it's pretty much "blah blah blah blah YOUTH blah blah The Establishment sucks blah blah blah intellect doesn't matter blah Sibyl Vane is perfect."I guess I wonder sometimes whether or not Oscar Wilde was right - if intellect is more important than material objects, ta...
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| 1 Native Belle |
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| 2 Hey Light |
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| 3 Infant Dressing Table |
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| 4 Panic |
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| 5 Two Sails on a Sound |
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| 6 Slippi |
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| 7 Too Soon |
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