Animal Collective Strawberry Jam (2-LPs)

3 stars out of 5 -- "[Those pure, keening melodies are evident...but you can also hear the pop faith that underlies them -- the belief that a bright, catchy melody is a sacrament for us all."
4 stars out of 5 -- "[The] songs are fabulous hybrids of lo-fi psychedelia and ecstatic drone-pop..."
4 stars out of 5 -- "It makes them sound like The Beach Boys beset by a sudden, and very poignant, revelation."
4 stars out of 5 -- "The freakiest freak-folk is rarely as freakish as the more disorienting triumphs of STRAWBERRY JAM..."
"Avey's crawling, traumatic 'Unsolved Mysteries' is the best ballad he's written yet, and the chants of Panda's 'Derek' is a stroke of gentleness the group rarely achieve."
Paste (magazine) - "[I]t's one of the group's most immediate albums -- often disorienting or working in ephemeral bursts, but undeniably memorable nevertheless."