Review: Animal Collective – Time Skiffs
While Time Skiffs breathes new life into Animal Collective, it doesn’t really excite.
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While Time Skiffs breathes new life into Animal Collective, it doesn’t really excite.
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Artifacts highlights both Condon’s maximalist, full-sounding folk side and his scaled-back electronic side, making it a great introduction to Beirut.
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The Vaccines’ fifth album Back in Love City expands their sound even further, doing so from the most unexpected of places.
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Modest Mouse’s seventh studio album The Golden Casket mashes the band’s radio-friendly and downright weird sides together, to say the least.
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You might not have even noticed they were gone, but Islands are back and better than ever on Islomania.
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Is 4 Lovers has the trappings of a new Death From Above 1979 to lead us into the 2020s, but spends most of its time recalling the band’s early intensity
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Serpentine Prison shows a new side of Matt Berninger, but it’s hard to imagine anyone other than existing fans of the National picking it up.
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Have We Met’s gloomy lyrics and pared-back instrumentation shouldn’t turn you off from what’s essentially a great release.
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Everything Else Has Gone Wrong is less a grand comeback album than a warm “welcome back” album.
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The synthpop of UR FUN make it the most accessible of Montreal in some time, though longer-term fans may be less easily impressed.
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Less original than its predecessor, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 2 works best when rocking hard.
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!!!’s eighth album packs a punch, but not a Wallop
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