Animal, Surrender! returns with mathy, complicated grooves. The core duo of Peter Kerlin and Rob Smith continues to concoct oddly rhythmed but intoxicating reveries, but this time adds pipe organist Curt Sydnor to the sinuous mix. This second album continues in that vein, caging ruminative, bass-toned dream sequences in prickly post-modern architectures.
Despite the new member, Animal, Surrender! still sounds like a duo. The give-and-take between Kerlin and Smith continues to define this outfit’s lurch and stutter and sway. Sydnor, though, hovers in the margins, unleashing long, spooky tremulous tones that heighten the band’s aura of surreality.
The title track, for instance, unspools long, lucid phrases from the higher strings on…

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