Forever the gold standard in casual-sounding yet painstakingly crafted, whimsical yet resolutely badass genre-splicing head-trips. Paul’s Boutique and Odelay have long since passed into the eye-rollingly obvious canon by now, but their everything-happening-all-the-time production style makes both records thrilling and immersive on both the first listen and the 50th. Animal Collective just blew it out, slicked it up, hyperintensified it, a dizzying cut-and-paste torrent where at any given second you might be abruptly graced by a visit from The Enchanting Wizard of Rhythm.
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