“Following their critical and commercial breakthrough, 2009's Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective return with a dense and busy album that serves as the more anxious flipside to its blissed-out predecessor.”
“Midway through the 10th Animal Collective album, Josh "Deakin" Dibb shouts, "I get wide-eyed! Wide-eyed!" into infinity – like some kind of psychedelic drill sergeant leading a battalion of dream warriors into battle against the forces of droopylidded normalcy. It’s a fitting salvo: AC are the pre-eminent mystic seekers of the Brooklyn indie-rock demimonde – […]”
“With Centipede Hz, experimental music outfit Animal Collective is following its poppiest album, 2009's Merriweather Post Pavilion, with one of its most hectic.”
