{"id":91,"date":"2006-04-26T10:07:36","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T15:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/music\/2006\/04\/26\/animal-collective\/"},"modified":"2007-11-13T15:52:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T20:52:36","slug":"animal-collective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/music\/2006\/04\/26\/animal-collective\/","title":{"rendered":"~Animal Collective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/feels_front.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"353\" alt=\"Feels front\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/feels_inside.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"194\" alt=\"feels-inside\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Feels_CD.jpg\" width=\"357\" height=\"358\" alt=\"feels-CD\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>feels<\/em>, the second CD by the New York based Animal Collective,<br \/>\nis probably the most important alternative CD of 2005.  A real gem of an album,<br \/>\nit marches forward from where the Animal Collective left us in 2004,<br \/>\nwhen they released their legendary debut CD &#8211; <em>Sung Tongs <\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>feels<\/em> CD, like <em>Sung Tongs<\/em>,  continues the<br \/>\nAnimal Collective&#8217;s search for new sounds,  while at the same time being much<br \/>\nmore accessible.  In comparison to <em>Sung Tongs<\/em>,  <em>feels<\/em>,<br \/>\nhas a lot more lyrics, which help flesh out the meaning of the songs.<br \/>\nThis does not stop the group from using those lyrics as an abstract sound<br \/>\nelement in their quest to explore new sonic territory. Surprisingly all<br \/>\nthis experimentation does not result in self-indulgence.<br \/>\nThe new CD is as tight as <em>Sung Tongs<\/em> in its desire to create<br \/>\nnew musical paths towards emotive authenticity.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the sexiest experimental music we&#8217;ve ever heard . .<\/p>\n<p>IF artlovers had a soundtrack &#8211; this would be it !<\/p>\n<p>ANIMAL COLLECTIVE,  <em>feels<\/em>,  Fat Cat Records 2005<br \/>\nLayout by Rob Carmichael<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paw-tracks.com\">animal collective<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>feels, the second CD by the New York based Animal Collective, is probably the most important alternative CD of 2005. A real gem of an album, it marches forward from where the Animal Collective left us in 2004, when they released their legendary debut CD &#8211; Sung Tongs . The feels CD, like Sung Tongs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}