Monday, October 29, 2007
Animal Collective - St. George's Church
So called as their number is more a carousel of contributors than a fixed line-up, ‘Animal Collective’ have long reigned as one of the hottest tickets in experimental music. God only knows what Sunday night’s congregation would have made of their performance in St. George’s Church on Monday for it was pretty far removed from a conventional live show.
But the hallowed setting suited their sprawling, euphoric sound and as on record, their harmonised vocals evoked the redemptive, hymnal qualities of prime-time Brian Wilson. Beneath this, three of their personnel set about deconstructing their repertoire by way of banks of electronics and each song was reproduced as a spectre of its recorded cousin - crushed into a millions of tiny pieces and re-assembled on the fly as flickering, pulsating loops.
It was an intense and disorientating experience but as soon as I stopped thinking about how it was made, or what it all meant, one that I was more than happy to surrender myself to.
posted by: Jim Brackpool @ 10:33 PM
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