this release is strictly limited to 1000 copies and housed in a plastic wallet. mastered at abbey road studios and ressed by portal space records. this is your chance to pick up classic fatcat records albums in the most lavish vinyl format available. presented for the first time in heavyweight dmm vinyl, feels is animal collectives classic seventh album and, as had come to be expected, saw them again kicking off from their previous release to explore another different direction. where sung tongs was largely acoustic based and the product of just two members of the collective (avey tare and panda), feels is in contrast a full group effort (also including geologist and deakin). moving further away from the suggestion of folkish affinities (they always sat in their own space, came at things from a different angle), it is electrified, rhythmically more urgent, and overall a considerably denser work. those sweet melodies and big catchy hooks remain intact, and the songwriting is once again bold, brave and adventurous, as ever indelibly stamped with their own unique personality. punchy, infectious, immensely rich and varied, feels is both hugely inventive and tightly focussed and sounded like little else around at the time. always evolving and astonishing, there is quite simply no other group around quite like them.