psychadelically shifting textures and moods, soon to be released

this may be a little off-topic, but Animal Collective, a previous New Yorker Magazine band of the year, is about to release a new album: "Merriweather Post Pavillon". It looks like a treat.

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/10/29/animal-collective-preview-trippy-merriweather-post-pavilion/

you know the bands good when it can inspire prose like these

"Merriweather is the soundtrack for the ultimate hippie/ambient tribal dance party, a giddy, freewheeling, psychedelic beast of an album, full of big beats, trippy drones and glistening synths dancing around the band’s rich, reverb-drenched, fugue-like vocal layers."

or, later...

"While tracks like the low-key “No More Runnin’ ” are more conventionally song-oriented, the focus here is on constantly shifting textures and moods, like the central riff of “Daily Routine,” which sounds like a bowling ball being thrown for a strike across the keys of an organ, or the moment on “Guys Eyes” that suggests nothing so much as a backwards loop of a piano being dropped from the roof of a monastery. "

How you can tell what kind of roof that piano is being dropped off of by this sound is, im sure, a mystery only the revelation that this album will be can reveal.