Review: We're led to believe that the gestation period of this, Animal Collective's tenth album to date, was briefer than their earlier work - not that one would notice, given that 'Painting With' displays a band capable of cramming more ideas into one song than most manage in an album. Indeed, the band have scarcely sounded this poppy, upbeat or ebullient, revelling in a collision of polyrhythmic invention, Beach-Boys-on-Venus harmonies, kaleidoscopic sampladelia and sugar-rush intensity. Moreover, for all that their trademark sound has helped shape much of the psychedelia of this century, this foursome are not disposed to rest on their laurels, and this is the sound of them harnessing their creativity as if there were no tomorrow.
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