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<\/a><\/p>\nLabel: Domino \u252c\u00e1 | \u252c\u00e1 Released: 03.09.12.<\/p>\n
Animal Collective’s ninth EP, Centipede HZ<\/em>, sees the return of Josh “Deakin” Dibb, who was absent for their last endeavour, critically acclaimed Merriweather Post Pavillion<\/em> of 2009.\u252c\u00e1 Centipede HZ<\/em> is perhaps less accessible; it feels more frantic, almost schizophrenic in places.\u252c\u00e1 Each song is connected to the next by static and random samples, making the whole album a kind of colourful patchwork of techno.\u252c\u00e1 It’s like a selection of short stories, each requiring your full attention and preferably your eyes closed for full immersion into the richness of the soundscape.\u252c\u00e1 \u252c\u00e1Catchy tracks include fruit obsessed yodelling in Applesauce<\/em>, and Rosie Oh<\/em>‘s quirky, dove-like cooing synths.\u252c\u00e1 “I’m holding the choice as she grows life from its stem,” sings Deakin, over the drones and mesmerizing Indian rhythms of Wide Eyed<\/em>.\u252c\u00e1 The sincerity of the album’s vocals is striking; the unfiltered, natural voices seem to believe wholly their cryptic mumbo-jumbo.\u252c\u00e1 This, contrasted with aggressive sampling and time signature changes galore, makes Centipede HZ<\/em> a bizarrely beautiful creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"9\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[140,141,96],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-animal-collective","tag-centipede-hz","tag-quench"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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