Halfway through Jonah Weiner’s interminably boring retro on the interminably boring website Slate about the interminably boring Animal Collective, I gave up.
It seeme dto be going on for bloody decades (though AC have only been together six years). How can three albums be such a straight drag to read about.
If you’re having trouble going to sleep try reading this paragraph: “Animal Collective’s basic mission, however, remains the same. The band doesn’t want to tear down the architecture of pop music so much as Escher up the place, to let the dissolving logic of dreams unmoor traditional expectations of song craft, and to occasion happy epiphanies in us by cultivating an atmosphere of disorientation and surprise.”
Even if I liked Animal Collective, I’d dislike em on principal now. I might think Jim Derogatis is a dick for his VE review but at least the man can write taunt not rambling.