Animal Collective @ Glasgow School of Art, 13 Jan

If you’ve steadfastly purchased Merriweather Post Pavilion or invested in the unamimous proclamations of the music press in recent weeks, you might well believe there’s a real chance that Animal Collective’s latest opus could become a mandatory supplement for tap water before the year is out. It seems a crime that they aren’t headlining the Barrowlands tonight. Regardless, the trio (‘Deakin’ is off on sabbatical) shrug off the indecision of a crowd that doesn’t know whether to shake its ass or gaze back in dumfounded wonder, seizing the room with belly-rumbling bass and neo-Beach Boys harmonies. Åvey Tare takes the mic for much of the duration, his vocal delivery by turns echoing Why? man Yoni Wolf and Jonas Bjerre from Mew. An incline towards instrumental self-indulgence is thankfully curtailed by My Girls - Panda Bear's euphoric and endearingly nerve wracked ode to domestic bliss – steering the show home to a modest victory, rather than the assumed crowning moment it should have been. [Dave Kerr]