The Ritz,Manchester
Touches of the sublime that could be expected from the makers of Merriweather Post Pavilion are lost in this troubled performanceThe late Factory Records boss Tony Wilson once said that bands never turn in anything good after their fifth album. Baltimore’s Animal Collective proved him incorrect, producing their masterpiece with their eighth. Merriweather Post Pavilion in 2009 was a marvellous record, and in which the group turned collages of everything from jungle beats to wind chimes into moments of transcendent,childlike joy.
Seven years on, their hands aren’t fairly as steady at the wheel, or the revelation that they made portray With,their latest album, by hiring a baby pool, or dimming the lights and projecting images of dinosaurs on the walls,hardly dispels suspicions that joyful oddity has tipped into wilful wackiness.
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Source: theguardian.com