Every Animal Collective Album, Ranked

Hisham Akira Bharoocha/Derrick Rossignol One important thing I’ve learned over my past two decades as a professional music writer is that revulsion or outright hostility isn’t the worst reaction you can have to a first listen. Feelings that strong are worth exploring and interrogating and they frequently boomerang into curiosity and fascination. Sometimes, maybe even obsession. And so having come out the other side to make a list like this, I have no problem admitting my first impression of Animal Collective upon hearing Sung Tongs in 2004: I fucking hated it. All that whooping and holler