It's fitting this new Au song's called "Are Animals" because Luke Wyland & his band of Portland noisemakers do a pretty good Animal Collective impersonation on it. Then at 1:21 it shifts, breaking from that opening whiplash into the organ and horn-drenched experimental Americana we dig so much. The hoots and hollers remain but are filtered differently, becoming the song's undertow, until we get some female soloing. Fair warning: If it sounds like you walked into the room after the party already got started it's because along with "Are Animals" is the second part of a two-song suite (part the first is the airy, vocal and instrumental sacred choiring of "All My Friends"), which opens the band's sophomore album Verbs. For all that, it does a mighty fine job of standing alone.