Informed in equal parts by acid-fried psychosis, crop-circle field recordings, and an elephants-on-the-loose circus thrash aesthetic, Animal Collective's fourth full-length album rests roughly at the meeting point between psychedelic, noise, and folk music.
Here Comes the Indian begins gently enough with "Native Belle," a moody set piece that belies the album's clatter with 12 minutes of constrained rhythmic builds, drones, and squeaks.
Things quickly explode with the searing "Hey Light," a lightning bolt of electrocuted brass and human wails that sends the album careening into psychoactive delirium.
Since everything that follows -- from the shrieking brattle of "Two Sails on a Sound" to the enchanted tribal vocal exercises of "Slippi" to the slow-building celebratory scuttle of "Too Soon" -- feels similarly crazed, drug-induced, and apparitional, Here Comes the Indian makes for particularly lucid listening.
Brash, crass, and texturally magnificent, this is well worth seeking out.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Native Belle | Animal Collective | Play | 03:52 | 8 MB | 20 MB |
| 2 | Hey Light | Animal Collective | Play | 05:41 | 13 MB | 31 MB |
| 3 | Infant Dressing Table | Animal Collective | Play | 08:35 | 19 MB | 54 MB |
| 4 | Panic | Animal Collective | Play | 04:48 | 11 MB | 28 MB |
| 5 | Two Sails on a Sound | Animal Collective | Play | 12:20 | 28 MB | 71 MB |
| 6 | Slippi | Animal Collective | Play | 02:49 | 6 MB | 17 MB |
| 7 | Too Soon | Animal Collective | Play | 06:27 | 14 MB | 40 MB |
| 44 mins | 102 MB | |||||
| 44 mins | 263 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Animal Collective | Primary Artist |
| 2 | Deacon | Member of Attributed Artist |
| 3 | Geologist | Member of Attributed Artist |
| 4 | Panda Bear | Member of Attributed Artist |
| 5 | Avey Tare | Member of Attributed Artist |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |