Animal Collective - Feels (Fat Cat) album review

It's possible, if pushed, to plot a psyche/rock line from Pink Floyd and Roky Erickson, via The Soft Boys and Julian Cope, to The Flaming Lips and Olivia Tremor Control, onto Super Furry Animals and beyond. Animal Collective fit somewhere among that cranium-expanding group; Feels, their second full-length album, is a fuzzfolk dronefest of occasionally rewarding but ultimately frustratingly hard-going duration.

Charlie Ivens

originally appeared in The Fly magazine, October 2005 issue