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What we say
 This record left our Phil feeling ecstatic.
The crazies that are Animal Collective have a new album out on Fat
Cat on dbl vinyl LP or limited 2CD job avec a bonus disc featuring yet more
crazyness.... only LIVE. So their new album is a lot different to the last one.
It sounds sounds fuller and hazier yet more lo fi and less dynamic than Sung
Tongs (which I totally adored). 'Feels' features a lady playing piano (or pianos
as there may have been more than one...) from Icelandic wonderkins Mum
and Eivind Kang who plays violin for all kinds of fun-folk like The
Sun City Girls, John Zorn etc.... It's very different from Sung Tongs but
give it a few spins and you'll see where it's going and what they're trying to
do. It reminds me of when I used to listen to Sun City Girls and Thinking
Fellers years ago.... ah them were the days.... So all in all it's a
reasonably logical progression forwards and extremely entertaining. Hazaar!
What the label says:
Tracklisting:
SIDE A
Did You See The Words
Grass
Flesh Canoe
SIDE B
The Purple Bottle
Bees
Direct Metal Mastering uses the most advanced technology in vinyl manufacturing.
The groove is cut directly in copper metal. Transient response is greatly improved. DMM yields better detail resolution and a lower noise ratio. remastered direct from the original master and pressed on heavy weight 180g vinyl audiophile discs. This release is strictly limited to 1000 copies and housed in a plastic wallet. Mastered at Abbey road studios and pressed by portal space records. This is your chance to pick up classic Fatcat records albums in the most lavish vinyl format available.
Presented for the first time in heavyweight DMM vinyl, ‘Feels’ is Animal Collective’s classic seventh album and, as had come to be expected, saw them again kicking off from their previous release to explore another different direction. 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 (they always sat in their own space, came at things from a different angle), 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. Punchy, infectious, immensely rich and varied, ‘Feels’ is both hugely inventive and tightly focussed and sounded like little else around at the time. Always evolving and astonishing, there is quite simply no other group around quite like them.
• Making it in many of the top ten albums list of 2005, this album is labeled by critics as a classic
• Once out of stock, copies of the original vinyl were changing hands for over £40 on Ebay
• With a new album out on Domino in Jan 09, a full and lengthy press and radio campaign will run alongside the DMM reissues
• With three other classic Animal Collective albums also coming out on DMM 180g vinyl, this will be even more collectable
• This album picked up an 8 page Wire Magazine feature, and other features at I-D, NME (+ 8/10 review), Guardian Guide, Time Out, Good For Nothing, Plan B, Disorder, Stool pigeon, Dazed & Confused and others. It was also supported by national BBC and XFM sessions. Reviews were strong and across the board. Proceeding albums have done even better, and features on the band continue to appear.
"An excellent record." 9/10 Pitchfork
"their music sits somewhere between a kaleidoscopic, diluted Beach Boys, and a folksier, surrealist psych version of My Bloody Valentine." 9/10 - Drowned in Sound
"What makes AC's music so special are the sweet and simple songs at it's heart - pop jewels with more than a touch of Brian Wilson and Syd Barrett beneath the layers, their melodies cast against weird noise and washes of sound from somewhere uniquely off-centre." 4/5 Mojo
"Animal Collective are indisputably one of the most fascinating acts to have crawled out of the primordial New York soup in the last decade." 8/10 NME
"Animal Collective are not just a group, but the epicenter of a phenomenon." Wire
"Recalling at times the compositions of Brian Wilson and The Flaming Lips at their most far-flung..." 4/5 Q
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