Blog: Stereogum

Looks like it. Sounds like it, too, if you spent your holiday with Animal Collective's latest on repeat like most everybody with torrent expertise. The album's out tomorrow but a couple reviews are already in, and they are glowing. SPIN went four-star style in a review from Andy Beta : From [opening thumper "In The Flowers"] forward, these stalwart innovators ... elude all experimental-noise, freak-folk, and indie-rock tags, and create a startling, pounding, effulgent sonic template.... Call it searching for the perfect peak. Merriweather plays like the summation of a long, strange trip, combining [...]