Animal Collective: Oddsac | CD review

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 was widely held to be on the verge of killing the radio star and everyone from Devo to Olivia Newton-John had a go. Then they vanished. On a prosaic level, that was perhaps because the video album made music less utilitarian: you can't do anything else...

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