{"id":462,"date":"2009-03-23T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejoycollective.co.uk\/blog\/?p=462"},"modified":"2009-06-11T01:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T23:00:47","slug":"live-review-animal-collective-bristol-trinity-centre-sunday-march-22nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/review\/live-review-animal-collective-bristol-trinity-centre-sunday-march-22nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Collective : Bristol Trinity Centre : Sunday March 22nd"},"content":{"rendered":"
After a rise in profile following January\u2019s Merriweather Post Pavilion<\/strong>, Animal Collective\u2019s Trinity Centre return visit is long sold out. A new found fame which probably draws a lot of this largely static crowd (I know, I know, it is a Sunday night) out of curiosity rather than celebration.<\/p>\n

For a band who have a rich history of insularly ploughing their own furrow, from their early noise releases, through folk and electronica. It is inexplicable, by which I mean fucking life-affirming – AMAZING – that they\u2019ve hit such popularity, becoming a virtual genre of their own, \u2018sounds like Animal Collective\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Seemingly kicking older habits of using live tours as a showcase for new material, this current version of the band (guitarist Deakin dropping out for the moment) have hit a groove. Button pusher Geologist conducts the watery warm bass heavy electronica as backing to Panda Bear\u2019s luscious reverb-drenched Wilsonian harmonies and Avey Tare\u2019s tribal cymbal crashing, drum pounding and screaming. The sound suits this cavernous setting – hollowed out church (think The Point, elongated) – perfectly.<\/p>\n

Excusing the hiccup of the electrics cutting out just as set-opener Guy\u2019s Eyes<\/em> is hitting its stride, there is less meandering and more cutting-to-chase than my previous AC live experiences. It feels almost exclusively up-tempo tonight. It seems harder not<\/em> to dance to this (a task nevertheless taken up by the gawpers at the front). One new song is paraded, a relative slow-burner looping a vocal sample almost reminiscent of Massive Attack, you get the feeling this band have found plenty of common ground with Bristolian dub traditions.<\/p>\n

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Tonight\u2019s set leans heavily on their latest release, Here Comes The Indian<\/strong>\u2019s Slippi<\/em> being the solitary gesture to their more abrasive beginnings. Songs are spliced, stretched and fused without interruption, dotted with euphoric tidal build-ups and breaks. While day-glo Merriweather standouts My Girls<\/em> and Brother Sport<\/em> remain relatively faithful to their recorded counterparts. Strawberry Jam<\/strong>\u2019s Fireworks<\/em> is injected with a virtual Baltimore (AC\u2019s home-of-sorts) club tune, lifting more from the bliss-out of an early 90\u2019s rave and a mile away from the freak folk of 2004’s Sung Tongs<\/strong>, from which Leaf House<\/em> (or more truthfully, a version of) is plucked and given the full Merriweather digital treatment as an encore.<\/p>\n

I realise I\u2019m saying this with all the neutrality of a wide-eyed trembling obsessive, but really I can\u2019t think of anything else that sounds quite like this.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a rise in profile following January\u2019s Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective\u2019s Trinity Centre return visit is long sold out. A new found fame which probably draws a lot of this largely static crowd (I know, I know, it is a Sunday night) out of curiosity rather than celebration. For a band who have a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}