Animal Collective: May 26th at the Fox Theater, Oakland, CA

by Angela Zimmerman • May 29, 2009

Animal Collective
May 26th at the Fox Theater, Oakland, CA

The white cloth-covered tables behind which members of Animals Collective stood hummed and pulsed in various ambient colors while psychedelic imagery and trippy visuals danced their way across a giant white orb erected above the stage. The images and thumping hues were transient and fleeting, yet the music emanating from the speakers was ghostly and seemingly endless, sounds looping through sounds, laced with vocals that soothed and melted, or drove lyrics into songs. This was Animal Collective at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Tuesday night, a spectacle of light, music, and mood.

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