Centipede Hz

After heading down an experimental rabbit hole with the psychedelic "visual album" ODDSAC, Baltimore's Animal Collective deliver a proper follow-up to the acclaimed Merriweather Post Pavilion with their ninth album, Centipede Hz. The album finds the Collective assembling in their hometown to record the album together, returning to their roots and connecting via the confines of a practice space instead of sending new material back and forth. With a more traditional writing style, the album feels more cohesive and relatively structured compared to their more free-flowing work, while still maintaining the layered, freaked-out sound that fans have come to crave from the electronic tinkerers.