“The Beach Boys come up sometimes in discussions of Animal Collective, which would seem very strange if you caught the group on the wrong record. When they get noisy and decide to experiment, they're more Bryn Jones than Brian Wilson, but both this year's exceptional *Sung Tongs* and the less-heard 2003 live-in-the-woods document *Campfire Songs* had those familiar high-pitched and intertwined harm”
