Single Review: Animal Collective – Honeycomb/Gotham

Avey Tare’s Animal Collective immerse from the musical mire this month with a new 7″ single entitled Honeycomb/Gotham. Released on the 26th of June, which is also free to stream now, if you like. ‘Honeycomb’ is the A side to the single off the forthcoming album Centipede Hz, due to be released this September. And what a wonderful concoction it is, reminiscent of 2007-2009 in the band’s career when the doors of perception were a lot less open and agitated.

There is melancholy hidden deep within the dynamics. The blips and bleeps try hard to distract you from the real agenda of the song, where life itself is futile, but we still carry on. This is outlined in lyrics such as “How many times you say I’m finished with this but it starts all over. How many times you say I’m moving to this but it won’t move over.”

There is however still a very positive atmosphere around the track and the experimental nature of Animal Collective is still the very core of the band’s ethos, but what else would you expect? Again it is very hard to distinguish the beat of the track, but this makes the arrangement, at times it feels like an African drum band plugged into a Casio keyboard. If this is a taster, then we can’t wait for the whole cake.

By Ash Moore

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