Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

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1. In the Flowers
2. My Girls
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Bee OK, Friday, 10 October 2008 01:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

Will they continue to suck or will they go back to being devastating?

I know, right?, Friday, 10 October 2008 01:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

they will continue being devastating. there is actually-nothing-wrong with strawberry jam.

so excited about this anyway. daily routine's like my favourite ac song, from boppin' to it at shows and all the archive.org tapes.

schlump, Friday, 10 October 2008 02:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'll have absolutely none of this anti-Feels (which I think is actually one of my all time favourite albums) and strawberry jammery that is so popular around here!

Cars That Go Boom (mehlt), Friday, 10 October 2008 02:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

If this isn't effectively their Collectidelica it will be a massive missed opportunity.

Tim F, Friday, 10 October 2008 03:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

is this live? merriweather post pavilion is an outdoor venue in maryland

eman, Friday, 10 October 2008 04:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

no, new studio album

mizzell, Friday, 10 October 2008 05:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

where does it say studio album

eman, Friday, 10 October 2008 05:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh domino usa site says it

eman, Friday, 10 October 2008 05:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

People are anti-Feels around here? I could see the Strawberry Jam hate since it was their big album, but I think Feels is not only their good middle point but when they really started to hit their stride. I really can't see much noize-luv around here either.

skygreenleopard, Friday, 10 October 2008 06:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

That post sums up the opposite my feeling on the topic: Hollindagain>Here Comes The Indian> Sung Tongs>Prospect Hummer> Campfire Songs>Spirit>Feels>Danse>Jam. But everything down to campfire songs is on this amazing plateau of possible greatest band of last ten years, its just, well, they've peaked. I dislike their recent stuff as much as I dislike their early stuff, ie, I don't hate it but its just a bit, well, at least in the case of the early stuff it felt like there was so much promise, in the new stuff I just feel like they've peaked or something.

I know, right?, Friday, 10 October 2008 08:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

Sorry I'm really not trying to be all shitty about this because I know y'alls just wanna get excited about the new one, I really did used to love this band and I get it, they're just not my band anymore, they just changed I suppose, at least they didn't start making a shitty formulaic version of the really great stuff. (great to my ears, you're clearly free to disagree)

I know, right?, Friday, 10 October 2008 08:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

xp
I like most of their stuff really. I was probably more into Feels when that came out than Strawberry Jam, but today it's possible I consider the latter the better album sure. I definitely feel it's still worth looking forward to new AC material.

sonderangerbot, Friday, 10 October 2008 08:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'm definitely open to being blown away by this one, I really would love to be.

I know, right?, Friday, 10 October 2008 08:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

i thought this thread was about Animal Collective playing the Merriweather Post Pavilion in 2009 and my head almost exploded.

Just one of those dudes is from Maryland right? Were they ever a MD band?

circa1916, Friday, 10 October 2008 08:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

n/m thanx wiki.

circa1916, Friday, 10 October 2008 08:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

Jesus, even their fucking font choices are obnoxiously headache-inducing.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 10 October 2008 08:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

all the dudes are from Maryland. but they get considered a NYC band.

beta blog, Friday, 10 October 2008 16:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

it's a studio album and it's amazing. if you witnessed those last round of shows, it's that sound, finally captured. along the trajectories of Person Pitch and the Pantha du Prince remix, but on a whole other level.
my initial reaction (only heard it once) is that it's their Loveless/ Screamadelica, a massive leap forward in sound 'n' frequencies, a total summation of their powers, craft, and influences, their most cohesive "album" and a trip unto itself.

beta blog, Friday, 10 October 2008 16:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

Fuuuuuuck I hope beta blog is OTM.

I love the font, fwiw.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 10 October 2008 16:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://www.myanimalhome.net/index2.html

Bee OK, Friday, 10 October 2008 16:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

their most cohesive "album"

this is encouraging. seeing them gradually conglomerate songs into sets over the past couple of tours has been really satisfying. i like feels a lot, but i don't think it really flows (where as i think strawberry jam does, by having distinct phases and moods).

the screamadelica comparison seems apt in light of how danceable some of it seemed at shows. brothersport, &c. is the first song the kind of super-hippie-ish psych one?

schlump, Friday, 10 October 2008 16:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

Strawberry Jam is their only release that I dislike. I was a bit disappointed in Feels at first, but only in comparison to Sung Tongs, which still stands as one of my favorite albums of the decade.

Were all four involved in the recording? *crossing fingers for avey tare and panda bear only*

z "R" s (Z S), Friday, 10 October 2008 16:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

i didn't think any album title/cover combo could ever turn me off more than the last one. this is truly the most obnoxiously stupid album title ive ever seen. they're just completely fucking with everybody

haven't you all heard? (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Friday, 10 October 2008 17:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

and not in a good way

haven't you all heard? (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Friday, 10 October 2008 17:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

also when did they become a jam band

haven't you all heard? (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Friday, 10 October 2008 17:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

avey, panda and geo played on the album (no deakin)

mizzell, Friday, 10 October 2008 17:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

(where) is you deakin?

schlump, Friday, 10 October 2008 17:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

"(They]) said they have many fond memories of the place and wanted to name an album after it," says Seth Hurwitz, the concert promoter whose company, I.M.P., books Merriweather. Hurwitz reports (via late-night email) that he was asked "about a month ago" if the band could use the venue's name for its next album. "I said, 'Cool.'"

mizzell, Friday, 10 October 2008 17:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

they were probably just fucking with that guy, though.

mizzell, Friday, 10 October 2008 17:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

"i didn't think any album title/cover combo could ever turn me off more than the last one."

what's the big deal, it was just a smushed strawberry?

Andrew Sandwich, Friday, 10 October 2008 20:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://spex.de/weblog/archives/5431-Achtung%3A-einige-Neuigkeiten-zu-Animal-Collective.html

here is a babelfish translation:

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Attention ³: The new, ninth Animal Collective album” Merriweather post office Pavilion “is excellently, still - with leaves - more poppiger than so far from that the volume belonged to material and consists of eleven pieces. The title refers to the club of the same name in Baltimore. The second song -” My Girls “- sounds with its jagged-electronically mäandernden underbody almost like a production of Carl Craig, the dreamed and entschleunigte” NO More Runnin “however calls memories to relaxed days at remote bath lakes awake. Brutally well also the machine-rhythm-beaconed and by numerous synthetic sounds disturbed” buzzer time Clothes “, which might be good for interesting, dance-surface-suited Remixes, as well as first the gently there-bubbling are, later however massive with (child) choir singing, Waber Electronica and Bossa rhythm strengthened” Bluish “.

mizzell, Friday, 10 October 2008 21:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh yeah, its a total dance-surface filler!

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 10 October 2008 21:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

STRAWBERRY JAM FUCKIN ROOLS SCHOOLZ UR ALL NUTS OR SOMETHING

rent, Friday, 10 October 2008 21:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

"The title refers to the club of the same name in Baltimore"

INVISIBLE CLUB

also its in columbia not baltimore

eman, Friday, 10 October 2008 22:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

Why so much 'FEELS' hate? Tis my favorite album.

Moka, Friday, 10 October 2008 22:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

At least the cover is somewhat interesting... unlike some other recent endeavours of lazy *cough* TVOTR/Bloc Party *cough*

I thought Strawberry Jam was solid, and the EP they put out this year sounded decent. Can't wait for this!

And for the record, 'Feels' is perfect, IMHO.

drainCosmetics, Friday, 10 October 2008 22:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

also when did they become a jam band

wait really

you dont think they were ever jam band-y before this

t_g, Friday, 10 October 2008 23:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

"it's a studio album and it's amazing. if you witnessed those last round of shows, it's that sound, finally captured. along the trajectories of Person Pitch and the Pantha du Prince remix, but on a whole other level.
my initial reaction (only heard it once) is that it's their Loveless/ Screamadelica, a massive leap forward in sound 'n' frequencies, a total summation of their powers, craft, and influences, their most cohesive "album" and a trip unto itself."

OMG OMG OMG this is exactly what I want.

Tim F, Saturday, 11 October 2008 01:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah, tim, i wasn't totally sure what you meant before, but wanted to say that they recorded this with ben allen because of experience with hip hop artists and they wanted someone to accentuate the rhythm and bass of the new songs.

mizzell, Saturday, 11 October 2008 01:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

i want an album full of "water curses"-style waterside dance blissouts!

aaron d.g., Saturday, 11 October 2008 01:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

The live show I saw in Berlin in October last year was totally a dance blissout, especially the encore which literally reminded me of "Higher Than The Sun" - a soundtrack for three wise men to travel across intergalactic rave lasers to offer exotic gifts to the starchild in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Closer to home, I guess the second half of "Derek" would be a good reference point too, but the live sound felt a lot fuller.

Tim F, Saturday, 11 October 2008 12:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'm just coming back from their Berghain show. Liked it a lot. It was very electronic at times, especially towards the end, almost ravey, in a way it reminded me of Underworld. But it was very apart from that it sounded very much like MBV to me. MBV without guitars. But as spacey.

Tobias Rapp, Sunday, 12 October 2008 00:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

"But apart from that it sounded very much like MBV to me."

Tobias Rapp, Sunday, 12 October 2008 00:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

Have there been any key live recordings in 2008? I've totally lost track.

toby, Sunday, 12 October 2008 01:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14564305
this show form 2007 has most of the new songs on it.

mizzell, Sunday, 12 October 2008 02:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh yeah, I have that on my computer already. Never listened to it though. Will remedy.

toby, Sunday, 12 October 2008 02:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

That live set has real moments of greatness.

The band that AC's development kind of reminds me of is A.R. Kane - with AC's earlier work corresponding to 69 and Strawberry Jam (and hopefully even more so the new album) corresponding to i.

There's that same sense that what starts out as a fascination for pretty-noise being... not abandoned... but recontextualised within a frame of stronger pop songs and hypnotic (v. v. loosely "dance") rhythms, in a way that makes what remains of the original aesthetic actually more precious (in both cases I'm confused by the tendency of people to prefer each band's earlier work).

Water Curses actually reminded me of tracks like "Conundrum", "And I Say" and "HoneySuckleSwallow".

Tim F, Monday, 13 October 2008 04:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

i am very psyched to hear this based on the comments so far. animal collective is one of those bands that i have seen live (for sung tongs i think - it was amazing and wonderfully perplexing to the crowd) and have a few recordings by, but i never took the full plunge.

tricky, Monday, 13 October 2008 22:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

in both cases I'm confused by the tendency of people to prefer each band's earlier work

know nothing about AR Kane, but preferring AC's earlier stuff because it wasn't just pretty, or rhythmic, or noisy, or any one particular thing except on the verge of bursting into flames. it was disturbing + pretty, or sweet + noisy + scary, or combustible + hypnotic. I'm not as interested in seeing how artists even out over time, smoothing over rough edges to form something that's supposed to be "mature" or a synthesis of what they were driving at before. This happens to most people, artists or not. AC's stuff on Here Comes the Indian, say, was more interesting to me, sonically and certainly emotionally -- maybe because it wasn't "fully formed". That music leaves a lot more to chance, and imo is open to a lot more interpretation. given that it often still comes out weirdly, surreally pretty is kind of an amazing bonus.

Dominique, Monday, 13 October 2008 22:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

There you go that is perfect!

Glo-fi, I think, is a really good term for it. One thing I remember about being a kid in the 80s is that everything was glowing with this digital haze. I'm thinking TV commercials with vector graphics (lines of glowing light) and the fuzzy appearance of analog video technology. Then you had all these pop songs drenched in digital reverb (or at least the snare drum). So the music was kind of glowing.

Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 16:39 (1 month ago) Permalink

Well, plus the fondness for bright pastel colors and simple primaries, retro 50s "populuxe" color schemes and design. There definitely was a neon simplicity to popular youth culture in general. What's funny is how precise and clear it seemed at the time, in contrast to drab, brown 70s-realist fuzziness. It was an era of sharpness, not of haze, at least in terms of how it narrated itself to itself. Pac Man/Tron graphic were (or seemed) idealized & clean, like Esprit stripes & Jellies.

Retrospectively, that all changes. VHS vs. Blu-Ray.

a bleak, sometimes frightening portrait of ceiling cat (contenderizer), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 16:56 (1 month ago) Permalink

so it's 80s + weed basically

guammls (QE II), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 23:25 (1 month ago) Permalink

man so much of this stuff is gonna date so badly

i got nothin (deej), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 23:31 (1 month ago) Permalink

Dream-beat, chillwave

yeah some of this stuff on the memory tapes album makes me think of bowery electric circa "lushlife". weren't there a cluster of groups that kinda went on this shoegaze meets trip hop thing for a little while in the mid-90s? not making a direct comparison, it just REMINDS me is all

guammls (QE II), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 23:36 (1 month ago) Permalink

x-post I dunno does revivalism ever really "date"?

Think about how electroclash just continues and continues and continues, just changing its name and scene-configuration every couple of years.

Perhaps what doe date w/r/t revivalism is just the sense that you cared, like "lol we were into that." So you can be contemptuous of your former enjoyment of hype-moments like britpop/elephant six/"the new rock revolution"/electroclash/hypnagogic pop, even though in fact all of the specific sounds those terms are meant to describe continue to hang around like bits of food between yr teeth.

Tim F, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 23:37 (1 month ago) Permalink

Oh I for one expect all of these artists will enjoy enduring relevance at par with Dance Disaster Movement and Test Icicles.

cee-oh-tee-tee, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 23:37 (1 month ago) Permalink

There's a big difference b/w "dating" and "enjoying enduring relevance" though. Lots of music slips out of popular consciousness b/c it's not interesting or good enough even to be tied down to a particular point of time.

Test Icicles sounded awful at the time even.

Tim F, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 23:40 (1 month ago) Permalink

Should say there's a big difference between "not dating" and "enjoying enduring relevance"...

Tim F, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 23:41 (1 month ago) Permalink

yah tim i know what you mean, i think its more just like ... yeah the strokes seem to have aged pretty well, but lol the vines ... where the 'movement' helps a lot of mediocre shit get thru the 'filter' just because it happens to follow this sound .... obviously i resist the idea that a wack band cant drop an exciting one-off accidentally, or that those spearheading a movement necessarily deserve more 'credit' for their music than latecomers, but at some point discernment seems to take a back seat. i mean, have you sat thru that ducktails album? i downloaded & deleted it TWICE i was trying so hard to get into it

but maybe i dont smoke enough weed

i got nothin (deej), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 23:48 (1 month ago) Permalink

Dunno Tim. I mean, music: it's good or it isn't, isn't it? And there's nothing much new about this whole thing, it's just what Pitchfork is talking about. I fail to see a massive difference between most of these acts and, say, early Boards of Canada, or as mentioned above early Seefeel. I mean some of this sounds like Land of the Loops, guys. These acts are exploring the same territory with less resources and different conceptual pretensions. Having the bliss without the gothy/gothic and pretty forced obtuseness of those geometric days (something M83 has tried to purge with his flowery images but is so inextricably tied to musically it's a lost cause) is refreshing, but it's new clothes, not new ideas or expressions. "Crazy For You" x infinity.

cee-oh-tee-tee, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 23:48 (1 month ago) Permalink

or alternately, im slightly too young for the references to hit me emotionally, & w/ very few of these artists is there something else to grab on to (but then, you should be too young too haa)

i got nothin (deej), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 23:49 (1 month ago) Permalink

when i heard neon indian some of the traxx def seemed to stand out more to me

i got nothin (deej), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 23:50 (1 month ago) Permalink

I like the Ducktails stuff well enough, though it doesn't compel me to investigate deep glo-wave scene knowledge. Plus it makes my GF call me a hippie. Agree that the more this becomes a thing, the less interesting any given example of it becomes, and the more mystifying it'll all seem in a few years.

OTOH, Ducktails, specifically, get a pass cuz it's really just stoner wall-gaze soundtracks with zero commercial prospects, and that shit's eternal.

a bleak, sometimes frightening portrait of ceiling cat (contenderizer), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 23:55 (1 month ago) Permalink

Deej and Cott, I agree with your last two points absolutely - and this stuff will totally date in the sense of "lol we were into that, how could we swallow the hype hook line and sinker" (ftr I'm not really, every band i've checked out described in these terms just sounds like post-rock crossed with drone to me, but maybe i'm checking the wrong stuff? I haven't listened to Ducktails or Neon Indian).

I just tend to think of "dated vs not dated", "good vs bad" and "duly hyped vs overhyped" as different conceptual categories - i.e. gated snare drums became "dated" but lots of amazing music has gated snare drums and often the drums sound fantastic. Warm, simple analogue recording techniques can't "date" anymore but a lot of bad or boring music is made in that fashion.

Tim F, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 23:55 (1 month ago) Permalink

The whole sidechain/DSP hard compression shortcut to sounding better-than-indie is one of the most painful developments in audio history. This Neon Indian record sounds like moments of Disco Inferno records played through a Distressor.

cee-oh-tee-tee, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 23:58 (1 month ago) Permalink

painful indeed, the ducktails stuff i listened to had some nice things going on but it was too unplesantly harsh sounding for me to handle. i have no problem with lo-fi shit but DUDE FIX YR LEVELS

guammls (QE II), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 23:59 (1 month ago) Permalink

yah thats fair -- i think whats 'dating' to me is the conceptual pretense

i got nothin (deej), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 00:39 (1 month ago) Permalink

when i heard neon indian some of the traxx def seemed to stand out more to me

― i got nothin (deej), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 23:50 (Yesterday)

probably because there is only one good neon indian song. i really like hypnagogic pop in theory, and i imagine there's a lot of good stuff i haven't heard yet and i'm just not keeping up with but much of it it seems is high on cool production and low on good melodies.

samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 02:02 (1 month ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

Fall Be Kind is an upcoming EP by Animal Collective, to be released on November 23rd 2009 (digitally) and 14th December (physically).
Recorded by Ben Allen at Sweet Tea in Oxford, MS in February 2008 and at Mission Sound in Brooklyn, NY August 2009, Fall Be Kind includes recent live favorites "Graze" and "What Would I Want? Sky" (featuring the first ever licensed Grateful Dead sample).

1. Graze
2. What Would I Want? Sky
3. Bleed
4. On A Highway
5. I Think I Can

Bee OK, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:08 (1 week ago) Permalink

I finally got around to listening to this and only really liked "My Girls".

a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:12 (1 week ago) Permalink

i like this band and enjoyed 'sung tongs' and 'feels' but something keeps me from really getting to them. i've prob listened to MPP like twice. 'my girls' is kind of annoying

love the panda bear album tho. prob my favorite AC-related thing

mark cl, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:13 (1 week ago) Permalink

i tried hard with this, but it is not good imo

call all destroyer, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:18 (1 week ago) Permalink

"My Girls" is the standout, I think - it seems to have a little more swing in it - elsewhere on the album the rhythms tend to be a bit too ploddingly mid-tempo. But I think this is still one of the more interesting indie albums of recent times - one of the few that seems to inhabit the same contemporary musical universe that includes techno-futurist R&B like Beyonce.

o. nate, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:25 (1 week ago) Permalink

imo if you want to hear stuff in this general vein that isn't squarely at the worst possible midpoint between aimless ambient noodling and overearnest whining, pick up Moderat

a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:27 (1 week ago) Permalink

"What Would I Want? Sky" (featuring the first ever licensed Grateful Dead sample)"

which is from Unbroken Chanin taking from The Mars Hotel album.maybe the only decent song from that record.

Zeno, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:29 (1 week ago) Permalink

would never think of the moderat as an equivalent but it is a much better album. Ur all mad tho brothersport is the highlight

plaxico (I know, right?), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:42 (1 week ago) Permalink

there's a mediafire link out there for this with a bunch of crap 80s songs rickrolled in, but i don't have the heart to post it here.

YOUR MOMS SPOT HERON WITH NO HANDS I'M SMACKIN HER (Beatrix Kiddo), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:49 (1 week ago) Permalink

still feels weird to be in the pro-MPP camp (tho i wasn't much of a fan before), rate this over Moderat even

mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:12 (1 week ago) Permalink

would never think of the moderat as an equivalent but it is a much better album

In truth that comparison came about because I encountered "My Girls" on the Modeselektor Body Language mix, which ends with "A New Error"; in the context of that mix, they both inhabit a similar vibe. I recognize that one isn't a direct substitute for the other.

a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:33 (1 week ago) Permalink

also the cover art is prob the shittiest of the decade

mark cl, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:34 (1 week ago) Permalink

new animal collector ;-)

luol deng (am0n), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:36 (1 week ago) Permalink

kshighway1, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 15:04 (1 week ago) Permalink

there's a mediafire link out there for this with a bunch of crap 80s songs rickrolled in, but i don't have the heart to post it here.

― YOUR MOMS SPOT HERON WITH NO HANDS I'M SMACKIN HER (Beatrix Kiddo), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 21:49 (Yesterday) Bookmark

something tells me this should already be somewhere on this thread.

a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 15:43 (1 week ago) Permalink

What Would I Want? Sky is great (at least the live version I heard).

ecuador_with_a_c, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:49 (1 week ago) Permalink

Agree with what others said that "My Girls" is the standout. I like AC, and Panda Bear, when they're incorporating those sunshine pop influences and harmonies. The other, more noodling, songs aren't always bad but it's just not worth returning to.

Cunga, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:13 (1 week ago) Permalink

i hope what would i want? sounds a little less like moby than i remember

peter falk's panther burns (schlump), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 20:04 (1 week ago) Permalink

not a fan of the vocals in "what would i want sky" judging from live bootlegs i've heard. to me what's great about MPP is that avey tare grew out of alot of what made his vocals so awkward and unpleasant to listen to on strawberry jam. it's not quite a return to the greatness of the vocals on feels but alot of beautiful crooning. and yeah, "what would i want" sounds like it could've been on strawberry jam.

samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 23:24 (1 week ago) Permalink

*but a lot of beautiful crooning nonetheless.

samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 23:25 (1 week ago) Permalink

*but a lot of beautiful crooning nonetheless.

samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 23:25 (1 week ago) Permalink

at this point i'm more pro-bro sport than pro-MPP, but it's still a better album than strawberry jam was imo

YOUR MOMS SPOT HERON WITH NO HANDS I'M SMACKIN HER (Beatrix Kiddo), Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:18 (1 week ago) Permalink

because idolator readers DEMAND IT:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ytmxc4k2qzm

behold!

YOUR MOMS SPOT HERON WITH NO HANDS I'M SMACKIN HER (Beatrix Kiddo), Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:20 (1 week ago) Permalink

Nobody has ever sampled the Grateful Dead before??????

Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:21 (1 week ago) Permalink

I guess Phish get by on a technicality.

adamj, Thursday, 12 November 2009 01:48 (1 week ago) Permalink

Fall Be Kind is now leaking!

Bee OK, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 19:46 (2 days ago) Permalink

this is really, really good. i think Animal Collective are possibly hitting their peak right now as this is so much better than it's suppose to be.

Bee OK, Thursday, 19 November 2009 01:48 (Yesterday) Permalink

the harmonies on 'what would i want? sky', absent from the npr/live versions, is very pleasing!

GEDDY LEE JAZZ MINT (Future_Perfect), Thursday, 19 November 2009 01:55 (Yesterday) Permalink

the last track ,Noah's I Think I Can, might be the best track in this EP, and it's not surprising.

Zeno, Thursday, 19 November 2009 06:30 (Yesterday) Permalink

Looking forward to hearing this. I even have my AC team uniform on (four day beard, a hoodie and jeans).

Cunga, Thursday, 19 November 2009 19:00 (Yesterday) Permalink

What Would I want? Sky is pretty awesome. Way better than the live version I had.

exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 19 November 2009 22:01 (Yesterday) Permalink


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