NME.COM - Reviews Blog — The release of Animal Collective's visual album 'ODDSAC' this week has given reviewers the breadth and length of these isles a chance to exercise their already VDU-atrophied eyes. Not just a film with soundtrack, watching it as a DVD is the only way ... more info

Guardian Music — It started out as a proposal for a tour doc, but 'visual album' follow-up to Merriweather Post Pavilion, ODDSAC, is more countercultural arthouse meets B-movie shlockNot that he'd admit it, but there must have been times when Josh Dibb has wondered i... more info

DrownedInSound — The 54th edition of This Week On DiS as a playlist, featuring Animal Collective, John Cooper Clarke, The White Stripes, These New Puritans, Yeasayer, Boredoms, Deerhunter and a few more for good measure! Read the full story on DrownedinSound.co... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — [photo via] There have been many great summer mixes this year, and even a fantastic website set up by Yewknee collecting over fifty of them (!). Without self-fellating the merits of our own blogging establishment, we firmly believe your summer won't... more info

Guardian Music — This freeform film collaboration could be a lot worse, says Alexis Petridis – it's just boring, not pretentiousA few years ago, you could happily have called the full-length video album a forgotten art. They were big in the early 80s, when video wa... more info

DrownedInSound — It's a frightening, surreal but compelling work that draws on the strengths of Animal Collective while also adding perspective to their failings, in this case allowing their sonic indulgences to dictate the direction. Read the full story on Dr... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — I've been on a ridiculously successful bandcamp treasure hunt over the last day or so, spurred at first by Blackbird Blackbird's tumblr. It's there I found the object of a new obsession: Jacksonville's unouomedude (pronounced "you know you owe me, d... more info

Guardian Music — After years in the shadow of Brooklyn bands, the British album is stronger than ever. Rosie Swash salutes a Mercury shortlist that reflects the boom in homegrown talentHas there ever been a more maligned award than the Mercury music prize? The annual... more info

Its Getting Boring By The Sea — So not too long ago I made a little playlist and it went down fairly well so I've had another go at it for the Summer season. There is no rhyme or reason to these songs, just a handfull of things that I think fit well together and should sound good a... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — Photo by Ben Saunders Head over to Australian dance-rock group Cut Copy's official website to download the first song released from their as-yet-untitled third album, which is due in January. In a recent interview with Pitchfork, singer Dan Whitfo... more info