Animal Collective s Isn t It Now? suggests both urgency and passivity, displaying some of their best attributes but also their self-circumscribed limits.
From the explosive maximalism of “Merriweather Post Pavilion” to the mind-bending one-of-a-kind acoustic sounds on “Sung Tongs,” Animal Collective has adeptly explored a wide spectrum of psychedelic sounds across its several studio projects. The band’s latest album, “Isn’t It Now?,” skirts closer to the reggae-influenced sounds of last year’s “Time Skiffs” than the freak folk.
Animal Collective waited six years between the release of their tenth album, Painting With, and their eleventh, last year’s Time Skiffs. The latter album was recorded remotely while the band’s four members – Dave Portner (Avey Tare), Noah Lennox (Panda Bear), Josh Dibb (Deakin) and Brian Weitz (Geologist) – waited out the Covid pandemic in […] The post Animal Collective on ‘Isn’t It Now?’, Their Second Album in Two Years – “We Were Just Really Psyched to Play Together Again” appeared first on Mu