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Sputnik Music (staff)
This is Animal Collective at their finest folks, inviting everyone in to see them at their peak and loving the freedom that comes with being on top of the world
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9.0
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musicOMH
As we crawl to the end of this Year Of The Animal Collective, this release can certainly be said to have further elevated their status
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8.9
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Pitchfork
They've honed their craft and become very good at what they do, but there still seems to be a desire to go to unfamiliar realms... There's still a sense of gamble with Animal Collective, nothing is fixed- and that's exactly what makes them an especially exciting band
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8.0
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Drowned In Sound
If Fall Be Kind is noticeably less hooky than Merriweather Post Pavilion, it sounds just as ravishing, and offers an equally cohesive whole.
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8.0
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Eye Weekly
...the EP’s greatest revelation is that Merriweather didn’t even feature arguably the best song Animal Collective produced during its recording sessions: “What Would I Want? Sky”
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8.0
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NME
Animal Collective come into their own - if you can ignore the chatter to listen with innocent ears, they surpass 'good' and remain bewildering
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8.0
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The Independent
An EP poised on the cusp of ambition and enervation, by a band trying to find inspiration without seeking it out too strenuously, and finding it in the spaces where daydreams overlap
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8.0
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Tiny Mix Tapes
Like MPP, it’s got the repetitive drones, dub-skin beats, cave-dweller echo, sample-driven glee, vocal-heavy projection, and any other hyphen-toting AC persuasion you can think of
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8.0
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PopMatters
Due to the band’s particular brand of alchemy, all five songs manage to form a cohesive whole that stands as Animal Collective’s strongest EP to date
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8.0
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God Is In The TV
...the only way their music seems to develop is in more experimental ways, with no sights set on selling records
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8.0
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State
Their exclusion from Merriweather Post Pavilion is owing instead to that album’s proud sampleless nature, rather than them emitting an ‘obvious b-side’ vibe
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8.0
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Under The Radar
If Animal Collective keep making this kind of positive, insanely catchy music, there's no limit to what they can accomplish
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8.0
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Under The Radar
If Animal Collective keep making this kind of positive, insanely catchy music, there's no limit to what they can accomplish
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8.0
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The List
An ephemeral, trippy treat
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7.0
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7.0 |
The Observer
Fans won over by Merriweather's hazy, tribal euphorics won't be disappointed. The five songs here continue to be beamed in from a less-defined place, one that beguiles and frustrates in equal measure
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7.0
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No Ripcord
Fall Be Kind shows the band on the path to becoming an even mellower band and nothing here is exceptionally energetic except for the last half of Graze
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7.0
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Spin
The haze returns on this five-track EP. Fortunately, Merriweather's hummable, techno-indebted delirium also returns
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6.0
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Rolling Stone
At their best, Animal Collective combine shapely pop hooks with mind-broadening sonic freakery. At their worst, the sonic freakery is mind-numbing
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6.0
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Blurt
...with albums as near-unanimously adored as the last three looming behind them, one patchy EP is naturally going to stick out so sorely and so ten-thumbed. Not one to have on a ten-lap repeat, but worth its half-hour's attention
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6.0
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The Quietus
The fact is, Animal Collective are highly educated young people from the richest nation on earth, wearing masks and pretending to be pandas while effectively pissing around in a sandpit. The patterns they make are often exquisite. But it's not enough
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