“With each new album it becomes clearer that [Animal Collective](https://pitchfork.com/artists/96-animal-collective/) will not stay still. You can see them on tour and get a preview of the album to come in their live show, but aside from that, it's difficult to tell which direction their music will go next. If you’d heard [Spirit They’re Gone](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/7940-spirit-theyre”
“Animal Collective specialize in shape-shifting songs that seem to wrench melodies out of the ether. Their third full-length album maintains a sense of childlike joy and free-flowing exploration while creating bizarro pastoral reveries out of primitivist tom-tom beats, guitar screeches and all kinds of overlapping vocals, which provide both human-scale atmosphere and hooks. The lead […]”
