Fall Be Kind

Fall Be Kind

The members of Animal Collective started 2009 with the first album of the year worth your buck (Merriweather Post Pavilion) and ended it with an EP that proves once again they’re one mighty trippy bunch. Like the rest of the Brooklyn band’s best work, Fall Be Kind lets us fantasize about the music Brian Wilson might have made in the late 1960s and beyond if the drugs he favored had been even harder and Mike Love’s prohibitively straight-laced influence on the Beach Boys had been softer. The sounds and the images they evoke speed from point to point without warning, taking you on “Graze” from a beautiful rise-and-shine morning at home to what could be either a funhouse or a madhouse, depending on your mood. Fall is inarguably all over the place—but sooner or later, it’ll pass through an area where you want to be. –David Styburski

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