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Uncut
Consistently inventive rather than merely quirky, it makes sincere effort to get to the emotional core of what they do. Print edition only
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Beats Per Minute
Emotional archeology, for beginners and experts alike, it resides among the group’s five best efforts
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Northern Transmissions
Whether you’re a long-time fan or a newcomer, this album is a must-listen, showcasing the band’s enduring creativity and their ability to capture the essence of the times in sound
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Pitchfork
On what feels like a companion to Time Skiffs, Animal Collective explore some surprisingly traditional psych-rock modes, but without abandoning their essential trickster spirit
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musicOMH
American experimentalists return with dreamy soundscapes, hypnotic rhythms and odd time shifts
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Exclaim
Albums like Feel, Strawberry Jam and Merriweather Post Pavilion are typically considered Animal Collective's best works, yet they all lack the sustained presence of Isn't It Now?
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The Line Of Best Fit
Animal Collective hit a rich creative peak on the disorientatingly sprawling yet fully focused Isn’t It Now?
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All Music
It finds them reveling in a state of joyful curiosity, but exploring with a knowing control earned through years of getting to know themselves and their singular sound inside out
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Loud And Quiet
Decadent in its polyphony, the closer is a fitting curtain call to this fine chapter in the Baltimore four-piece’s evolving story
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Clash
A distinctive, nigh-on unique listen, ‘Isn’t It Now?’ is a fine experimental broth for Autumn listens
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PopMatters
Animal Collective’s Isn’t It Now? suggests both urgency and passivity, displaying some of their best attributes but also their self-circumscribed limits
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The Arts Desk
Animal Collective have expanded on their signature sound with occasional hints of prog rock and dream pop
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The Observer
After years of remote collaboration and standins, the indie experimentalists are all back in the same room – and overburdened with ideas
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Mojo
To Bolero-riffed beat-pop, Soul Capturer beautifully exorcises today's digi-overload, while 22-minute Defeat finds hope in an entrancing oceanic ebb-and-flow, with all the child-like discovery of late'90s Mercury Rev. Print edition only
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Slant Magazine
Despite a newly chill methodology, the band still lapses into their past idiosyncrasies
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