The most misunderstood album of this decade

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Just as a preface, I think that Centipede HZ is the best Animal Collective album by a decent margin. It's why I feel the need to defend it.

This album is possibly the most misunderstood and wrongfully hated albums of all time. This album has gotten shit for its jumbled nature and it seems like people just don't understand that it's supposed to be like that. The album cover, along with the name, are meant to come across as scatterbrained - The album is supposed to feel like it doesn't have one concrete identity.

But that's the point - A centipede is a creature with many, many legs and segments, and hz, or hertz, denotes the amounts of electrical cycles. Centipede Herz means something that's electrical, and insanely fast. It means that the album can be described as fast, pounding electricity - Which is what it is, and what people who don't understand the concept of the album criticize it for.

This album is beautiful, one of the most beautiful albums I've ever heard, for its nature. In certain parts, like the strings and synths in New Town Burnout, there are fleeting moments of clarity in the album, that bring back moments from previous calmer albums like MPP. It does this on purpose. It's supposed to be a heart racing, manic album where every once in a while, you get a break from it and you hear older AnCo. It's also written by Deakin, who is very obviously a musical genius, and adds to my point that the "Downsides" of this album were including purposefully. The lyrical content is too, with songs about not understanding the world, fear and pain coming from grief of Avey losing his wife, and other subjects that he bring forward the concept.

Centipede HZ is a concept album, and an incredbily good one at that. This album should've been praised as Animal Collective's best, but it isn't, because of stupid memes and a shitty pitchfork review.

I think history will look back on Centipede HZ as a moment of genius during the 2010's, and hopefully /mu/ will follow suit.