Animal Collective Time Skiffs [Slipcase] *

3 stars out of 5 -- "While they love blending squiggly drums and discomfiting noises in ever spacier ways, their home base has always been those extremely Beach Boys-esque vocal harmonies, the human calm in their electrical storm."
"The first AC album in a decade to involve all four members, it peels back the queasy synths and overcompressed arrangements to reveal a harmonious inspiration missing from their recent work."
"[T]he lush grooves of Time Skiffs -- the first proper album from them in six years -- is a welcome surprise for die-hard fans and casual observers alike. These nine songs are the most inviting Animal Collective have sounded in more than a decade."
4 stars out of 5 -- "'Dragon Slayer' introduces the album's mellower makeup, with cymbal taps, cascading pan pipe-FX synths and twittering harmonies that herald a fresh dawn."
Paste (magazine) - "[T]he album radiates with the contagious joy of all four bandmates finally coming together again and bringing years' worth of fine-tuning to the record. And it may well turn out to age into one of the band's most enduring works."
Clash (Magazine) - "The iconic neo-psych group once again utilise the album as a cathartic process, fruitfully combining, and in-turn expelling their experience of day-to-day life into a captivating body of work."