Animal Collective has been one of the biggest alternative hypes of the last years. Animal Collective sum up to an enormous knowledge of past music and once had the courage to invent entirely new approaches e.g. as regards structures of music. I was stunned by the first live performance I was lucky enough to witness in 2005 (Berlin Festival). What started as an animal (!) imitation only very slowly and magically turned into something musical. In 2009 though I had mixed feelings about the second performance I witnessed. The music did not always unfurl its inate substance and beauty. Also have I rarely seen such a disparate crowd - some wanted to dance their heads of, others to listen quietly, some wanted to talk, chat sing along others to contemplate. A lot of discussions on how to behave were going on during the concert.
One of the reasons for this ambiguities might be the focus on blurry sound promoted by Noah Lennox. Is that really a genius sound concept or is it just a hackneyed way to hide half-baked ideas within a wall of sound? A good part of the answer probably depends on the sound of your stereo or especially the mixer of a given live gig.
Anyway Lennox aka Panda Bear publishes his second solo album Tomboy soon. Already now it is
streamed on NPR first listen until April 12th. The comments on the site are, of course, ambiguous.
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