Feels

Animal Collective

Feels is the band's seventh album to date - their sophmore effort for Fat Cat - and sees them again kicking off from their previous release to explore another different direction. Where Sung Tongs was largely acoustic-based and the product of just two members of the Collective (Avey Tare and Panda), Feels is in contrast a full group effort (also including Geologist and Deakin). Moving further away from the suggestion of folkish affinities; it is electrified, rhythmically more urgent, and overall a considerable denser work. Those sweet melodies and big catchy hooks remain intact, and the songwriting is once again bold, brave and adventurous, as ever indeliby stamped with their own unique personality. Hugely inventive and tightly focused, Feels simply sounds like nothing else right now. Look for release of "Grass" EP domestically early 2006.

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