I’m not much of an Animal Collective fan anymore. There was a phase when I get together with friends and we’d indulge on hallucinogens while listening to Strawberry Jam. It’s a phase long gone now, just like the classic rock phase. It was good at the time, and played a large role in shaping my music tastes.
There’s been a lot of bands basing their sound off of Animal Collective lately. They take that wavy, dream, overly happy highly original sound and rehash it with out adding anything original to it (and if they do it’s no good). Then there is Man Man. Call them Animal Collectives evil brother.
Six Demon Bag is a stomper. It sounds like straight up Viking/Eastern European/Gypsy/Circus music all combined into one violent mess. It’s like a drunken Beirut on a coke binge singing war songs. It’s an album for steampunks. What I really enjoy about the album is how all the instruments that you will rarely ever hear anywhere else play such a huge role in the sound. Hell, I don’t even think there’s any guitar at all on the album. There’s a great sense of variety as well. You’d expect the sound to be gimmicky and get old after a song or two, but it’s not the case at all. You’ll be so intrigued and wanting more, curiously wondering what’s next. Such a fun band.
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