Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

god what a boring band

"After almost three years of planning Catsup Plate is proud to announce the release of Animal Crack Box...

... This is a single edition of 1000 copies, with no digital or CD version planned."

So, what exactly is the point in planning a 3 LP box set for three years, having it be hyped over and over the past few months, only for it to sell out in less than 24 hours -- before fans who are interested, but not obsessively online all the time, can purchase it?

so they can charge $92 for some remixes of Panda Bear flushing a toilet

So, what exactly is the point in planning a 3 LP box set for three years, having it be hyped over and over the past few months, only for it to sell out in less than 24 hours -- before fans who are interested, but not obsessively online all the time, can purchase it?

You don't understand how the internet works do you?

:'(

I'm powerfully behind Curt1s on this one. This strikes me as a genius scam by a very mediocre band.

all of us who love this album (and this band) are total dupes. hope we see the light some day

i hope you do too

Animal Collective has existed at the crossroads of uncompromising experimentalism, classic song structure and ecstatic expressionism

no

The songs veer from the early percussion/feedback wailings to the Campfire Songs style acoustica to wall of sound forest children vocal chanting

aiiii this sounds painful

The sonics are rough in places

what rougher than usual? surely impossible

Fans of the bands recent work may be surprised by the cacophony at times

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

this entire thing is hilarious, from those dumb titles to the dumb press release it's exactly what you'd imagine a parody of animal collective to be

much as i will pedestalise the 'collective, i mean you have to be a bit "special" to even want to listen to hollindagain all the way through more than once, so shelling out for a triple-album of atonal acoustic guitar strumming and inhuman grunts and shrieks is pushing it.

more like animal collection plate

lolololol good one *high fives*

http://pro.corbis.com/images/CB035029.jpg?size=572&uid=%7B1AB17965-090E-428C-828E-32619F75043B%7D

YEAH

Oh man J0rdan... epic high five.

I don't know how i feel about what I assume is a pun on "crack rocks"

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, May 12, 2009 7:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol you really cant think of anything else this could be a pun on

you gonna clue us in, maximillion q punnington?

"animal crack"... hmmmm......

it's still a pun on the word "crack"

yes

which is dumb.

sigh

Tonight on Crossfire.

Ned Ragg Box

i mean, i'm not going to say it's SUPER OFFENSIVE or anything, but i'm always little creeped out by middle class white dudes like AC and Moldy Peaches having hahas over something that's huge problem in lower-income african-american communities.

are you even serious

are you offended by the colloquial phrase "are you on crack?"

i'm just saying it rubs me the wrong way A LITTLE. So not I'm serious enough to get in an argument about it

Also, max, please note that i explicitly said i wasn't offended

not offensive, just a little lame

They also did that album 'Here Comes The Indian' about people sitting at home waiting for their food to be delivered. Don't they even understand the link between takeouts and obesity?

i think there are plenty of more valid reasons to hate on the "animal crack box" whiney

i still don't get the pun :-(

i do like the gary pantery art tho

haha whineford why are you addressing that to me, i just think its lol that you went right for "crack rocks" instead of "animal crackers," ie "you might listen to too much young jeezy if"

make the trap say AYYYYYYY CEEEEEE

"to even want to listen to hollindagain all the way through more than once"

i had to do this to review that when it came out on CD. god, that sucked hard, just thinking about hearing that thing again makes me queasy

to be fair Hollindagain is probably the best thing they've done, but they didn't charge $92 for it afaik

we are all the best thing they've done

to be fair Hollindagain is probably the best worst thing they've done, but they didn't charge $92 for it afaik

Fixed.

I'm powerfully behind Curt1s on this one. This strikes me as a genius scam by a very mediocre band.

― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, May 13, 2009

this strikes me as ... FFS I've only been sorta into them since the last album but you guys are all retardedly boring now with the need to be all Geir on Funk about this band.

Go have a little cry or something if it's that upsetting.

not sure why people are so mad about this!

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Asking why people are mad about this is a lot like Conservative bloggers asking why liberals are so angry about Dijon-gate. Can't they handle a little ribbing? Of course, what they're missing is that no one is angry about Dijon-gate, they're laughing at how ridiculous the whole thing is. SO TO HERE -- SO TO WITH ANIMAL COLLECTIVE.

it's no different to regularly going *facedesk* or pointing & laughing at asher roth or lady gaga or la roux or any of the other dreadful acts around at the moment, which half of ilm does

this album is good

hate on this, haters
http://www.exclaim.ca/images/up-acsingle452LG.jpg
A1 “Summertime Clothes” (Album Version)
A2 “Summertime Clothes” (Dam-Funk Remix)
B1 “Summertime Clothes” (Leon Day AKA L.D Remix)
B2 “Summertime Clothes” (Zomby's Analog Lego Mix)

Hollindagain is totally their best album fyi.*

This is nowhere near approach a Bjork style object-fetish piss take.

Title didn't really strike me as having anything to do with crack, more like work that mines the cracks between albums or something. Like cracks as the repositories for detritus material. But whatevs. They've never been interested in making daft drug references before, don't see why they'd title their box set after it, but then again I could be wrong.

How long before this shows up on r4pid5hare blogs, looking forward to cracking this box, even in mp3 format.

*Strawberry Jam h8r

some real acute analyses of AC distaste up in here. bravo

Asking why people are mad about this is a lot like Conservative bloggers asking why liberals are so angry about Dijon-gate.

Godwin's Law lite.