Though it never escapes the shadow of its elder sibling, Centipede Hz is, in true black-sheep fashion, undeniably entertaining.
Centipede Hz is dense and unforgivingly full-throttle ... and home to some of the band’s best and most involved lyrics to date.
‘Centepede Hz’ is somehow both futuristically innovative and welcomingly accessible. Amid the obscurantism caused by white noise and radio interference are strong choruses likely to get any form of life dancing.
A magical album that takes the listener on a wondrous journey into a party where love is found, lost, and ultimately sublimated into an unsurpassable catharsis.
With Centipede Hz, it's not just the case that they've done it again, it's that they've been doing it since the turn of the century, and no-one's going to stop them having fun anytime soon.
Centipede Hz stretches them out of their traditional organic structures and into a slightly unknown world.
Centipede Hz feels celebratory.
Centipede Hz is an album that’ll get a hold on you as all its arms grab on and don’t let go.
Centipede Hz is upfront about its intentions of difficulty, announcing them with a tone equal parts self-aware and challenging.
As it stands, it’s a portrait of growing up that is wonderfully vivid but a tad unfulfilling, a collection of tracks boasting some remarkable tunes and a complex theme, and an album that is bound to satisfy both hardcore and casual fans.
If it's not yet clear, Centipede does retain much of the band's earnest, knowing naiveté.
It’s chaotic and confounding. It will frustrate as much as it delights. And no, not everything they throw at the wall manages to stick.
Centipede Hz, by comparison, feels like someone throwing a burrito on your windshield: The songs hit with a jolt, instantly splaying all their ingredients before you.
It’s not a major album, but are Animal Collective obliged to make major albums?
Centipede Hz is an album that both gazes up into the cosmos, and stares down into the dirt – and perhaps that’s not so weird.
What gives Centipede Hz its relatable gravity is that, this time out, Animal Collective sound more like creatures who put their skinny jeans on one hoof at a time.
There's a higher percentage of anxiety and queasiness mixed in amid the moments of pop bliss, and though fans of the glassy perfection of MPP may be initially disappointed, Centipede Hz sounds like another logical step in the band's evolution.
Centipede Hz sets them up well for the future, without always managing to satisfy in the present.
With Centipede Hz, experimental music outfit Animal Collective is following its poppiest album, 2009's Merriweather Post Pavilion, with one of its most hectic.
Centipede Hz evokes nothing so much as diner placemats or knockoff dollar store beach pails.
It’s like a manic transmission that’s only being half picked up, leaving the receiver the task of attempting to reconstruct the message from incomplete information.
Oversaturated with obtrusive vocal effects and muddy synth textures, these songs are forcefully suffocated by untamed jumbles of sonic detritus.
The problem with Centipede Hz is that there’s just no room for the listener’s own imagination, rendering it a difficult album to connect with.
Centipede Hz may have a lot of interesting elements floating around, and it may be held together by the same strong songcraft that has always sustained Animal Collective, but it's all too murky and familiar, less profoundly complex than inaccessibly complicated.
While there's some interesting moments to be found here, for the most part Centipede Hz is a fatiguing experience.
𝗔𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲'𝘀 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆: 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗲 𝗛𝘇
The best way I can describe this album is just: it makes sense. Centipede Hz is an Animal Collective album that makes total sense, in terms of its sound, its release, its themes, and really everything about it. This is a bit weird because, in the case of AnCo, none of their previous albums have ever really done that. Each new album ... read more
Even though it's a change in direction from the beloved Merriweather Post Pavillion, it's still a great album. I've enjoyed it more with each listen.
Why is the user score only 73?
Continuing the long streak of amazing albums, Animal Collective takes a different direction with this album. It’s more electronic-sounding, but it doesn’t shy away from the psychedelic sound they’ve always been doing.
They take the catchiness of Strawberry Jam and Merriweather Post Pavilion and morph it into what Danse Manatee should have been. Like they’ve been consistently doing since 2004, they make a beautiful sense of melody, with ... read more
'Today's Supernatural' is such an amazing song. 'Wide Eyed' feels like it could have been produced by The Olivia Tremor Control. As a matter of fact, it's very likely that The Olivia Tremor Control inspired this record. This one connected to me more because it feels like there's just more vocals than what's usually on an Animal Collective album, it just feels more personal.
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Moonjock • Today's Supernatural • Rosie Oh • Wide Eyed • New Town Burnout • Mercury ... read more
多產的動物集合到後來稍嫌顧人怨的主要原因在於,除了明顯嗑過頭外,漫無章法的曲式讓人感覺就是大家jam一jam先錄再說反正這樣也是一張的概念,然後裡頭塞個一兩首稍微正常一點的就可以交代過去了。無奈的是粉絲,還是一樣,會買單.......
like alot (if not most) Animal Collective fans out there, I was offput by Centipede Hz when I first listened to the album. The sound just didn't connect with me, the the vocals felt too all over the place, the melodies and harmonies were scrambled and washed out, and the overall voice of the record was just muddled to me. But coming back to it years later, seeing this album as just a fun and new ANCO album is so fun and refreshing. It's one of the most catchy and head bouncing Lp's the ... read more
1 | Moonjock 5:05 | 84 |
2 | Today's Supernatural 4:14 | 86 |
3 | Rosie Oh 2:55 | 81 |
4 | Applesauce 5:34 | 85 |
5 | Wide Eyed 5:00 | 79 |
6 | Father Time 4:34 | 73 |
7 | New Town Burnout 6:01 | 76 |
8 | Monkey Riches 6:45 | 82 |
9 | Mercury Man 4:18 | 77 |
10 | Pulleys 3:30 | 75 |
11 | Amanita 5:36 | 86 |
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