“On their first studio album in six years, the legendary neo-psych group make peace with present-day anxieties while paying tribute to their past”
“After a prolific period of experimentation, Animal Collective return with an album that achieves a peaceful equilibrium between their immersive 3D soundscaping and innate melodic charms.”
“The last few Animal Collective records were so haywire that things regrettably got lost in the chaos. 2012’s ‘Centipede Hz’ was overloaded by digital cluster and red-raw shouting that it sounded like aliens had formed a garage band. Many songs on the weirder ‘Painting With’ (2016) sounded like those ETs had discovered ‘shrooms. The Baltimore group have a habit of leaning so heavily into their odd”
“Animal Collective remain ambitiously addictive on Time Skiffs”
“AnCo's first album as a quartet in nearly a decade is a mostly lovely return to form.”
“After a decade of ceaseless experimentation and genre hopping, Animal Collective finally struck gold with 2009’s Merriweather Post Pavilion. One of that decade’s finest albums, its dense, complex rhythms were overlaid with psychedelic textures and – crucially – inspired pop nous. But having delivered a masterpiece, they seemed not to know how to follow it: 2012’s Centipede Hz and 2016’s Painting W”
