Feels - Animal Collective

7.7	Listal rating

Manufacturer : Fat Cat
Release date : 18 October 2005
EAN : 0600116121127
UPC : 600116121127

Weird (1), Rock (1), Indie Rock (1), Vinyl (1), Folk (1), Psych (1), Experimental Rock (1), LP (1), Noise Rock (1), Psych Folk (1)

Description

Album DescriptionFeels is the band's seventh album to date - their sophmore effort for Fat Cat - and sees 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 Album Description
Feels is the band's seventh album to date - their sophmore effort for Fat Cat - and sees 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; it is electrified, rhythmically more urgent, and overall a considerable denser work. Those sweet melodies and big catchy hooks remain intact, and the songwriting is once again bold, brave and adventurous, as ever indeliby stamped with their own unique personality. Hugely inventive and tightly focused, Feels simply sounds like nothing else right now. Look for release of "Grass" EP domestically early 2006.

Feels is a big, daring collection with recurring themes of psychedelia, folk-rock, prog-rock, jazz, and modern classical composition. Above all the album is cohesive and tangible. This music spreads out ethereally, pulsates, and is ambitious and strange, punctuated by echoes of George Harrison, Brian Wilson, and Motown. Animal Collective seems more inspired by the elements within, rather than in an imitation of that music: There are bombastic drums that would be at home on Pet Sounds on the dynamically thrilling "Grass," and on "Flesh Canoe" there are guitar voicings taken from the pages of Harrison's All Things Must Pass. Perhaps the loveliest of domestic love songs exists in "Purple Bottle," a relaxed transitional ripple that has not one but three build-and-release crescendos. Lead by Avey Tare, AC can be gentle and engulfing, but then will just as easily bare its teeth, even on a beautiful washy song like "Bees" where fright mingles with an rusted autoharp, a spare confluence of harmonized voices, and tucked-in, dreamy synthesizers. On "Daffy Duck" AC tries on a late-'90s Aphex Twin mood, just without the metallic, chrome coldness, and that idea envelopes into an identifiable heart-on-sleeve yearning. Feels should restore faith in the idea that rock musicians can take time and create complete albums that are equally bold, inventive, and meaningful--a far cry from the current vogue of releasing a collection of disparate singles as an album. --Gabi Knight

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Performed by

Animal Collective

Track listing

1. Did You See The Words
2. Grass
3. Flesh Canoe
4. Purple Bottle
5. Bees
6. Banshee Beat
7. Daffy Duck
8. Lock Raven
9. Turn Into Something

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