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Since the release of their debut album “Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished” in 2000, Animal Collective have invariably sought to challenge prevailing musical perceptions. With their eccentric fusion of psychedelia, pop, and indie rock, the band has achieved musical mastery on records such as the highly acclaimed “Strawberry Jam” and “Merriweather Post Pavilion.” Now, with the creation of “ODDSAC”, the band is attempting to diffuse their musical psychedelic experimentation into a visual...
...ODDSAC,” the new visual album by psychedelic pop band Animal Collective, is enough to make you feel as if your head has been transported from your body, as if you’re standing on the other side of the world, staring back at yourself in the distance. “ODDSAC” is 53 minutes of brilliant, yet quirky mayhem...
...visual album” is a relatively untapped medium, with low-profile releases by the Chemical Brothers and British band One eskimO providing two of the very few other examples. The album is a series of graphics and music which only together form one coherent body. The idea is not to have a recorded album put to images, nor a movie put to music—it is for the two mediums to feed together, or as Collective member Deakin put it, the two agents must “have a circular influence on each other...
...headliner of the bill and clearly the highest-profile act on display, but his equivocating performance failed to meet the pre-concert expectations. He was the undoubted musical highlight of the concert, but his performance failed to offer anything that could not have been experienced by listening to his album or mixtapes in the comfort of one’s own room. Cudi’s fast-paced beats did not translate well into conscripted, event-tent performance and, although the blinding light show impressively lit up the now-dark Yard, Cudi’s unenergetic body movement and overly...
...perfect example of how his set failed to move beyond his recorded output. For the first half he performed the well-known Crookers Remix of the song, which perfectly reproduced the ample dance beats of the original, and little else. Other than a few shout-outs to his first album, the majority of Cudi’s set consisted of underground songs that he cited from his pre-fame mix-tapes. And while these tracks deserve merit, they were not what the audience had been waiting for. It must be said that in general, Kid Cudi does not have...