Rolling Stone (p.91) - Ranked #24 in Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums Of 2008 -- "[M]egajams that electrify dance floors." Spin (p.116) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Girl Talk's fourth album efficiently weds collegiate Napster mainstays to thuggish verse in a rapid-fire manner..." Alternative Press (p.164) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Built upon layers of well-known samples, ANIMALS is a raucous and hugely entertaining effort that doubles as a virtual 'Name That Tune' game." CMJ - "[I]t's as much a schizophrenic retrospective of popular music as an all-out forty-minute mash-up." Blender (Magazine) (p.78) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The album] relies on a satisfying trick: combining hip-hop, indie and classic-rock samples into rousing jams. Sometimes the recontextualizations are irreverent; sometimes they're enlightening..." Paste (magazine) (p.59) - "His latest musical highlight reel is dense with rib-nudging gags and indelible moments....This multivalent stew is precisely the world in which we live. Gillis simply digests it into a crunky, continuous mix." Clash (Magazine) (p.122) - "[E]verything here is expertly put together, but never takes itself too seriously....Brilliantly entertaining."

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