Music

Animal Collective Get Colorful at Irving Plaza

by Chona Kasinger

February 24, 2016

The first night of two at Irving Plaza, Animal Collective’s mesmerizing, if not straight-up Picasso-esque, stage setup reflected every color of the rainbow on the sold out crowd. In support of the band’s recent release, Painting With, AnCo took their fans on a 90-minute trip through the new album — their tenth — and then some. New York-based Ratking opened up the show and proved to be an unexpected, yet perfectly suited fit for the bill.

Kaleidoscopic, chromatic and weird in all the right ways, Animal Collective has been liquefying the boundaries between pop and something a little north of experimental for well over a decade, and their live show was the perfect place to see all of that on display.

Photos by Chona Kasinger for the Village Voice

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