Animal Collective
Who Could Win a Rabbit/Baby DayTaken from Animal Collective's gloriously weird Sung Tongs album released earlier this year, Who Could Win a Rabbit sounds like a peyote inspired mountain stomp, with scratchy acoustic guitar and swirling, mad vocals. It's strange that something so downright bizarre can sound like indigenous music (although I'd be pretty afraid of any tribe that made sounds like that). As usual for the collective, there is some kind of real song trying to fight its way out of the bands members' collective psychosis, but thankfully things stay weird and unpredictable. It's catchy but you would never be able to remember the tune after one listen. In fact the more you try to recall what happened, the more indistinct it becomes, like a dream you are trying to desperately to piece together, only for it to slip away into some inaccessible part of your subconscious. Their songs were conceived in dreams. Baby Day is incredibly hypnotic, and sounds like what The Beta Band should be doing these days. Forest nymphs wail lugubriously around a fire and the local wildlife seems to join in. The nocturnal ritual burrows forward and gradually you start to dance.
