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WEEKEND VIDEOAnimal Collective"Summertime Clothes"Merriweather Post Pavilion2009iTunesA waterlogged sample of a voice croaking, "You can dance" opens Animal Collective's ninth album, and it's a sign of what's to come, even if the trio take their time before dropping a beat. Two-plus minutes of woozy ambience waft by as singer Avey Tare wishes, "If I could just leave my body for a night." Then, suddenly, the dam bursts and "In the Flowers" floods the senses with rib-rattling bass and a giant 4/4 thump that could be transmitting from a Berlin superclub. From that point forward, these...