Animal Collective review – joyful oddity becomes wilful wackiness

The Ritz, ManchesterTouches of the sublime that could be expected from the makers of Merriweather Post Pavilion are lost in this troubled performanceThe late Factory Records boss Tony Wilson once said that bands never turn in anything good after their fifth album. Baltimore’s Animal Collective proved him wrong, producing their masterpiece with their eighth. Merriweather Post Pavilion in 2009 was a marvellous record, in which the group turned collages of everything from jungle beats to wind chi...

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