Animal Collective- Love On the Big Screen / Buddies On the Blackboard

Animal Collective’s “Love On The Big Screen” captures the summer scorch and old-fashioned weirdness that has long defined their sound, zig-zagging through crystalized drum patterns and free-radical synthesizer tones like a laboratory experiment that’s broken out of Drop of Sun Studio. Back at it with their signature blend of exhilaration and brain-itching innovation, the band delivers an anthemic melody that’s thrillingly unpredictable, reaffirming their kink for making pop specimens that shimmer and unsettle in equal measure.