Animal Collective are one of the few acts that have been able to do something truly "new" and "different" since their inception.

STRAWBERRY JAM finds them walking a tightrope between the shining, lysergically-drenched, ecstatic, sing-a-longs that have pouring out of their records since SUN TONGS, and a more taut, tense, in-the mirror-questioning rockist 21st century psychedelia, deepening their aesthetic and opening up new sonic vistas along the way.