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What he’s presented us with, essentially, is the skeleton of Animal Collective’s fleeting creativity, stripped down to its roots, revealing that even at its rawest, purest form the music still has an instinctive grasp of sincere emotion and beauty.
10y
90
Sleep Cycle is an album about confronting those doubts, about climbing that mountain without dwelling on earlier difficulties, or timeliness, or imperfections. It’s about realizing what you want.
10y
85
One of the things that works so well on this six-song album is that it shaves away some of the psych rock of the parent band and lets the fragmentations remain.
10y
83
Unassuming and minimal in its execution with a whole that’s greater than the sum of its parts, Sleep Cycle establishes itself as a captivating journey inwards towards a destination that’s as comforting as it is reaffirming.
10y
80
Sleep Cycle represents, and unintentionally so, a creative rebirth that goes against Animal Collective’s increasingly evanescent creativity. It took long enough, but the investment was worth it.
10y
76
It’s a short album—six songs, 33 minutes—but a substantial one, a deeply personal work that takes us inside the mind of Animal Collective’s most mysterious member, while restoring some of the patience and mystique that’s been sucked out of that band’s recent, more spasmodic work.
10y
75
Organically composed and hovering in the astral, Sleep Cycle is an escape with the illusory contours of a dream.
9y
70
The short album feels fluid and fragile, but highly focused, letting decades' worth of energy and life experiences elegantly flow through, occasionally building up to a few supremely joyous moments.
9y
70
Animal Collective's Deakin drops his full-length debut.
8y
Dollarhorse April challenge-day 15
"It's tax day! listen to an album from an artist you'd trust to be your lawyer because you accidentally committed tax fraud by trusting @TaxesByTasha on instagram"
I don't know why this man came to mind for my taxes but he seems like he could do it.
Deakin seriously needs to make a new solo album. This album goes from incredibly dense, and frantic in instrumentation and vocals to relaxing and peaceful. This is pure neo-psychedelic ... read more
Deakin seriously needs to do more vocals on the next AnCo releases. This thing is just so beautiful throughout.
Probably my favourite solo project from an Animal Collective member I've heard so far.
The soundscapes are super dreamy, Deakin's vocals are very pleasant, and overall it feels like this album isn't trying too hard to be overly sophisticated - despite a few weird moments, it all feels very natural.
It's a bit too short and overall it's still far from AnCo's best work, but I definitely enjoyed it more than the pretentious shit that Panda Bear does on his solo projects.
This has a very strong argument for being the strongest post-2000s AnCo project out there. That last track... wow.
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE DEEP DIVE (SOLO DEAKIN) #22: SLEEP CYCLE
Shoutout to @IKnowILuvUBetta for helping me choose a solo project to begin with!!
HOW DOES THIS NOT HAVE A MUST HEAR???
Something I've always loved about Deakin is that his vocal style and songwriting have always felt more personal and grounded in reality than other AnCo members. Not saying that Panda and Avey aren't capable of those types of songs, quite the opposite actually. But the more layered yet calm sound on here ... read more
Deakin’s like that one shy friend who secretly has a huge cock like dude barely sings in core anco releases then he just casually drops one of the best albums of 2016.
For real tho, this is relaxing beyond belief & I just love how a lot of music related to the band gives this feeling of melting into a psychedelic soup, like there’s just so much reverb I feel like I’M becoming reverb myself.
I also love the intense & visceral track “Footy” that slams down in ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Golden Chords 6:29 | 91 |
| 2 | Just Am 8:08 | 88 |
| 3 | Shadow Mine 1:15 | 64 |
| 4 | Footy 7:19 | 86 |
| 5 | Seed Song 3:12 | 74 |
| 6 | Good House 7:05 | 93 |
Total Length: 33 minutes
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