http://bmamag.com/articles/free-stuff/20120911-three-copies-animal-collectives-new-alb/THREE COPIES OF ANIMAL COLLECTIVE’S NEW ALBUM ‘CENTIPEDE HZ’ (CD)
Centipede Hz is the tenth full length Animal Collective album following the widely celebrated Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009) and also the first since Strawberry Jam (2007) to feature all four original band members: Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist and Deakin.
As the album’s opening bars of drum crashes and radio interference on Moonjock immediately make clear, having returned as a four piece, Animal Collective have made their most widescreen and fully realized music to date.
Part of the inspiration for Centipede Hz included the band’s memories of growing up listening to station announcements and commercials on the radio and imagining the afterlife of radio signals from the past, forgotten transmissions that are now lost in space and broadcasting music from other planets for other life forms. This is reflected in the sound of Centipede Hz, which features the white noise of radio interference and buried frequencies overlaid with the band’s peerless melodic sensibilities and compositional methods. The result is a panoramic set of songs that shimmer with the confidence and wonder of Animal Collective’s unique inner logic and the luminous warmth of their sound world.
If you’d like a copy, email
allan@bmamag.com and come up with a rationale for the album’s title: Centipede Hz.
Email the editor with your name, phone number and address to see if you can pick up yourself a one of these.
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