Guardian Music — With eight albums behind them, it was the dizzying charm of Animal Collective's ninth that won the Baltimore quartet the acclaim they so richly deserveWhich other albums made our critics' poll 2009 list?When Animal Collective's ninth album was releas... more info

Stereogum — Each year when Pitchfork posts their annual Top 100 Songs Of XXXX you can be sure to find a number of hip-hop and popular radio tracks filtered into the electronic and indie stuff. Makes sense: Those genres and/or sensibilities can result in great... more info

Allmusic Blog — Appropriately for the final year of the decade, 2009 seemed to be the 2000s in microcosm. Every trend of the past 10 years surfaced over the past 12 months: dance divas with irresistible singles mingled with the electro-pop and art-punk vanguard with... more info

Allmusic Blog — Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay Lily Allen - It’s Not Me, It’s You Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion Antipop Consortium - Fluorescent Black Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid Baroness - Blue Record Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue The Black Crowes - Befo... more info

411 Mania — Animal Collective somehow manage to match, if not top, the enormous success of Merriweather Post Pavilion. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — On this five-song EP mostly culled from “Merriweather Post Pavilion” outtakes, Animal Collective's eighth and most successful record from January of this year, David "Avey Tare" Portner, Noah "Panda Bear" Lennox and Brian "Geologist" Weit... more info

Addict Music — Merriweather Post Pavillion was lavished with so much praise it was hard to see beyond it’s glacial magnificence and envisage a follow-up that could match it’s achievements. Yet, not even twelve months on, the Baltimore come New York inhabitan... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Animal Collective's Fall Be Kind EP hits stores tomorrow, and along with an import Grizzly Bear vinyl single, While You Wait for the Others, will be my only new release purchase as I focus on completing my holiday gift... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Animal Collective's Fall Be Kind EP hits stores tomorrow, and along with an import Grizzly Bear vinyl single, While You Wait for the Others, will be my only new release purchase as I focus on completing my holiday gift... more info

Stereogum — Los Angeles' "Ambassador of Boogie Funk," DJ, and past Animal Collective shifter Dãm-Funk has put together a smooth, NyQuil-hued, Keytar-against-the-trees video for "Mirrors." The laid-back nighttime track's from his ambitious 5-LP debut Toeachizo... more info