Reviews
3 out of 5 stars - "...Maintains a sense of childlike joy and free-flowing exploration while creating bizarro pastoral reveries out of primitive tom-tom beats, guitar screeches and all kinds of overlapping vocals....", Included in the Wire's "2005 Rewind: 50 Records of the Year.", "...Breathlessly Giddy and Shamelessly Trippy..."-Grade: a, Ranked #36 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2005" - "With falsetto singsong, light-hearted do-do-dos, war-play whoops. Drop your guard and it'll sound something like wisdom.", "Inclusive in its busy, cluttered sound, where everything seems to be happening at once and nothing is left out....With an emphasis on accessibility through melody and the conveyance of an almost childlike sense of wonder.", "FEELS is layered as no other Collective album before it. Because of this, the instruments melt into a pure sound where melodies and bits of harmonic ideas are left to linger long after they've disappeared.", Ranked #4 in Mojo's "Top Ten Underground Albums of 2005.", "The source of FEELS’ greatest joys is its unorthodox, yet engrossing effects-laden guitar tuning -- set to an out-of-tune piano.", 4 stars out of 5 - "FEELS is every bit as chaotically charming as its predecessor....By turns playful and upbeat, subdued and drifting..."