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Anco most successfully cultivated their distinctive style on Danse Manatee, an album which naturally synthesizes the dual sensations, both the heart-pounding fun and the heart-sinking terror, of childlike inexperience.

The album itself is the furthest Anco has ever deconstructed music. The band has never experimented much with actual song structure, always Anco has preferred tinkering with sonic formula. As in the extreme case of Danse Manatee, Anco still approaches experimental music not by the written structure of song, by the arrangment of notes (as most songs on the tracklist still fit the most basic criteria for verse-chorus-verse pop music) but rather approaches by an unorthodox arrangement of frequencies.

"This was after the three of us had spent most of the summer improvising and playing around with fusing song structure and noise and looking for ways to do it with fluidity. We were also interested in extreme frequencies, both low and high, and how they occupied space in the room and moved around in your heads." -- Geologist on Danse

Music is revisited with a child's eyes; Danse Manatee invites the listener to experience song as one might upon first exposure: full of harsh, thrilling noises and energetic chants and yelps, all of it underpinned by one solid coherent structure that somehow just makes sense.

I won't say that disliking Danse Manatee makes you a pleb. But I will say that if Meet the Light Child is not in your Anco top tracks you honestly don't understand the band.