I’ve been enjoying a renewed interest in Animal Collective lately. I’m reminded of when their album, Centipede Hz, came out in 2012. Words cannot express the profound disappointment I felt upon my first listening of its third track, “Rosie Oh.”
It begins with swirling whines, rhythmic kick drums, and one of the most pleasant and intriguing rising bass lines ever before devolving into a mess of noise that’s a bit much even for them.
It mars what’s an otherwise decent album. Luckily, they’ve done far better work before and after that song, so there are always other things to enjoy.