‘Time Skiffs’ review: Animal Collective conveys a story that yet has to find its ending

If you want to feel old, keep in mind that Animal Collective is coming near their third decade together as a band. And six years later (almost to the day), they have finally returned with a completely rejuvenated sound created…

“Bride To Quiet” A Quarantine-Inspired Experimental EP from Animal Collective

Bridge to Quiet, the quarantine EP created by Animal Collective, is pure experimentation. They take a ton of twang, echo in hypnotic droning, and stretch sound through a synthesizer in every which way to create a psychedelic-jam-band aesthetic to be…

Album Review: Animal Collective – Tangerine Reef

To celebrate the 2018 International Year of the Reef, in conjunction with the Miami-based art/science duo Coral Morphologic, Animal Collective decided to make an audiovisual experience all about coral reefs and the importance of nature preservation. A bit of a…

Music Review: “Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper” – The Most Beautiful of Deaths

  Lacking any large, distinctive black patches around his eyes, over his ears, or across his body, this panda bear is very different from your bamboo eating friend. Noah Benjamin Lennox, the experimental musician and founding member of the band…

Review: Daft Punk’s ‘Random Access Memories’

In the “distant future,” there were these two radical french dudes who made some tasty jams, and they descended onto earth in the late 1990’s and changed music for a generation. They revolutionized the sounds and the possibilities of synthesizers…