“At the break in “Winters Love,” from [Animal Collective](https://pitchfork.com/artists/96-animal-collective/)’s feral, sentimental *Sung Tongs*, when the guitar picks up and [Avey Tare](https://pitchfork.com/artists/4174-avey-tare/) and [Panda Bear](https://pitchfork.com/artists/3241-panda-bear/)’s voices flail like children who know they’ll never die, it occurs to me that youth isn’t always waste”
“In the realm of semipopular rock, there are indie rockers — who prize imperfection and irreverence — and there are jam bands, who are steeped in tradition and demand high technical standards. And never the twain shall meet. Until now, at least: Brooklyn’s Animal Collective make their songs cackle with soulful eccentricity while dazzling you […]”
