Animal Collective Time Skiffs Tracklist

When Animal Collective emerged from the fringes of New York’s underground in the early 2000s, it was hard to imagine they’d become what they did—a big-tent psychedelic band that could handle festival stages while still pushing the avant-garde; an art project that skirts the mainstream while still making music more visionary and unusual than most of their indie peers. Whereas 2016’s Painting With explored the manic side of their sound, Time Skiffs is, by and large, chill—a lazy river of sound that mixes the primitive and the New Age-y (“Cherokee”), the funky and the ethereal (“Prester John”). And while there’s always a tinge of uncertainty—the Cheshire Cats to their sweet-natured Alice—the music always resolves gently toward the light. If they’re not our Grateful Dead, nobody is.

• Animal Collective – Strung with Everything Lyrics
• Animal Collective – Cherokee Lyrics
• Animal Collective – Passer By Lyrics
• Animal Collective – We Go Back Lyrics
• Animal Collective – Royal and Desire Lyrics
• Animal Collective – Car Keys Lyrics
• Animal Collective – Dragon Slayer Lyrics
• Animal Collective – Prester John Lyrics
• Animal Collective – Walker Lyrics