Animal Collective - "someone in my dictionary's up to no good, i never find the very special words I should"

So much has been said and written on the Animal Collective that I don’t feel the need to contribute with another review. What I would like to do though is to tell you how I got to know their music and how my daily life changed since that day (for the worse of for the better I cannot tell…).

When I first listed to the Animal Collective my first reaction has been “mmmm, weird….” and while the song was still playing I switched to some more familiar and reassuring Fleet Foxes.
Then I went to see them live and I had an epiphany. Despite the fact that I knew almost no songs, I was in trance for the all length of the show. My body kept moving while my mind was busy trying to elaborate the music, the lights and the movements of those three strange guys on stage.

From that day onwards, the Animal Collective took over and monopolized my daily soundtrack. The more you listen to their music the more you like them. The higher the volume the happier your brain gets. The whole process I have been through closely resembles the beginning of a drug addiction and, probably, that’s why they still sound soooo good.