James Holden & The Animal SpiritsBest James Holden & The Animal Spirits Albums Ranked

The Animal Spirits

loudandquiet

9.0

“The stylistic development that James Holden underwent from his debut album to his second, 2013’s ‘The Inheritors’, was marked: fairly standard trance had made way for gambolling, expressive improvisation and sprawl which, although performed largely on modular synths, had far closer relatives in post-rock and ecstatic jazz than it did in anything that one might term “electronic”. The difference bet”

The Animal Spirits

pitchfork

7.4

“Electronic producer James Holden has remade himself into a bandleader on his new album—a collection of self-described “folk-trance” recorded with improv ensemble the Animal Spirits.”