Animal Collective - People
[FatCat]

People fuses the best aspects of Animal Collectives work to date, the rollicking good spaz-pop of Feels with the watery wailings of the Prospect Hummer EP.

In title track People, chiming progressive drones slide out into a plethora crashing cymbals and spanked up power-pop, overflowing with signature Animal Collective sounds.

Tikwid has the rolling progressions of Fickle Cycle, swapping the screeching breakdown for a sunshine-filled bridge, an aggressive neon attack of fluctuating simplicity and fractious candy-coloured melody.

The barely two-minutes of My Favorite Colors swims with liquid vocal swellings, drifting and ebbing before receding behind a horizon of echoes and daft piano tinklings, its surrealism testament to Animal Collective's more experimental side.

It seems that Animal Collective can only go from strength to strength, with each release building on the last, moving the sound on a step, growing into itself, cementing them as a stand-alone group who stoically resist any pigeon-holing or comparisons.

Track Listing:

1. People
2. Tikwid
3. My Favorite Colors
4. People (Live)