Panda Bear works hard to bridge the gap between Animal Collective's early unintelligible electro-jam sessions and that stuff you hear on the radio. And he does a pretty good job of marrying the two, despite the Montague/Capulet type relationship between them. Although Noah Lennox has a sharp ear for fun and bubbly music for guys with thick-frame glasses and girls who might have used the word "alt" to describe themselves at some point, it's not quite worth the fellatio from Pitchfork.
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