Animal Collective Feels (Dlcd)

3 out of 5 stars - "...[M]aintains a sense of childlike joy and free-flowing exploration while creating bizarro pastoral reveries out of primitive tom-tom beats, guitar screeches and all kinds of overlapping vocals...."
Ranked #36 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2005" - "[With] falsetto singsong, light-hearted do-do-dos, war-play whoops. Drop your guard and it'll sound something like wisdom."
"...[B]reathlessly giddy and shamelessly trippy..." - Grade: A
"FEELS is layered as no other Collective album before it. Because of this, the instruments melt into a pure sound where melodies and bits of harmonic ideas are left to linger long after they've disappeared."
"[I]nclusive in its busy, cluttered sound, where everything seems to be happening at once and nothing is left out....[With an] emphasis on accessibility through melody and the conveyance of an almost childlike sense of wonder."
Included in The Wire's "2005 Rewind: 50 Records Of The Year."
Ranked #4 in Mojo's "Top Ten Underground Albums Of 2005."
4 stars out of 5 - "FEELS is every bit as chaotically charming as its predecessor....By turns playful and upbeat, subdued and drifting..."
Paste (magazine) - "The source of FEELS' greatest joys is its unorthodox, yet engrossing effects-laden guitar tuning -- set to an out-of-tune piano."