Intuitive Music

Following 2004’s widely acclaimed ‘Sung Tongs’, Animal Collective return with a hugely anticipated new album – a truly stunning, inviting, often heart-warming experience. ‘Feels’ is the band’s 7th album to date and, as has come to be expected, sees them again kicking off from previous releases to explore further fresh territory. Where ‘Sung Tongs’ was largely acoustic-based and the product of just two members of the Collective (Avey Tare and Panda), ‘Feels’ is in contrast a full group effort (also including Geologist and Deakin). Moving further away from the suggestion of folkish affinities, it is electrified, rhythmically more urgent, and overall a considerably denser work. Those sweet melodies and BIG catchy hooks remain intact, and the songwriting is once again bold, brave and adventurous, as ever indelibly stamped with their own unique personality.