“Composed by Avey Tare, Geologist, and Deakin, AnCo’s second audiovisual album reckons abstractly with the environmental devastation and the potentially horrifying consequences yet to come.”
“Animal Collective’s best music has often sounded as though it were made underwater. “Loch Raven,” from 2005’s Feels, was like a secret choir emanating from a shallow pond; 2009’s “Brothersport” erupts and shakes with oceanic cacophony. “The Softest Voice,” from 2004’s Sung Tongs, even employed sounds resembling frog croaks as auxiliary percussion. (No frogs were harmed in the making of this freak-”
“Animal Collective's decision to release Tangerine Reef without its visual counterpart seems odd”
“Previous Animal Collective records were shapeless mush, but as least they were colourful mush. The kooky experimental band’s 11th album, ‘Tangerine Reef’, is only countless shades of grey. This is musical porridge, a thin gruel ladled over 13 tasteless tracks that you have to force down, one after the other, endlessly, until you’ve nearly forgotten that music is meant to be fun. This is not simply”
