Animal Collective
Album Title: Centipede Hz
Record Label: Domino
Review by John Noyd
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Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
The first official follow-up to the group’s electro-sensual masterpiece, “Meriwether Post Pavilion,” “Centipede,” worms its way to post-modern pleasure centers washed in carnival caramel consciousness; gooey loops from misfit kismet bounce, trounce, and ricochet, squishy transmissions past exhaustive mosh-pit squiggles, refracted distractions plastered in a hyperbolic collage, pelting mind-melting medleys against writhing tribal beats. Dense, intense and completely ingenious, the band returned to Baltimore to piece a feast of psychotropic kaleidoscopes harvested from crowded groove-powered pow-wows. Gurgling surges lurching in enthralling tropical squalor, AC teases mischievously cradling stray mosaics stitched from waterlogged jigsaws. Static-addled salads from radio-stoked rabble, the wonderful, woozy, “Centipede,” modulates and flutters in saturated clutter. All four original members reconvene to play Madison’s Orpheum October 16th.
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