Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

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1. In the Flowers
2. My Girls
3. Also Frightened
4. Summertime Clothes
5. Daily Routine
6. Bluish
7. Guys Eyes
8. Taste
9. Lion in a Coma
10. No More Runnin
11. Brother Sport

Bee OK, Friday, 10 October 2008 01:48 (sixteen years ago) link

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

I know, right?, Friday, 10 October 2008 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Tim F, Friday, 10 October 2008 03:13 (sixteen years ago) link

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

eman, Friday, 10 October 2008 04:54 (sixteen years ago) link

no, new studio album

mizzell, Friday, 10 October 2008 05:27 (sixteen years ago) link

where does it say studio album

eman, Friday, 10 October 2008 05:45 (sixteen years ago) link

oh domino usa site says it

eman, Friday, 10 October 2008 05:48 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

n/m thanx wiki.

circa1916, Friday, 10 October 2008 08:28 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 10 October 2008 08:37 (sixteen years ago) link

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

beta blog, Friday, 10 October 2008 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

Fuuuuuuck I hope beta blog is OTM.

I love the font, fwiw.

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 10 October 2008 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Bee OK, Friday, 10 October 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

and not in a good way

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

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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

mizzell, Friday, 10 October 2008 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link

(where) is you deakin?

schlump, Friday, 10 October 2008 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link

"(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 (sixteen years ago) link

they were probably just fucking with that guy, though.

mizzell, Friday, 10 October 2008 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link

"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 (sixteen years ago) link

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

here is a babelfish translation:

Attention ¹: Tomorrow evening Animal Collective play a concert in the citizen of Berlin club Berghain - we referred already to it, present the show, everyone may thus as informed regard itself. Attention ²: On 12 January 2009 the new, ninth Animal Collective album appears” Merriweather post office Pavilion “with domino record. That is in the box, it at the beginning of this yearly to the Sweet Tea Recording studio to Oxford, Mississippi with clay/tone engineer Ben everything was already taken up.

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 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, its a total dance-surface filler!

jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 10 October 2008 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link

STRAWBERRY JAM FUCKIN ROOLS SCHOOLZ UR ALL NUTS OR SOMETHING

rent, Friday, 10 October 2008 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link

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

INVISIBLE CLUB
http://dcpages.com/Tourism/Maps/pix/Merriweather_Post_Pavilion.jpg

also its in columbia not baltimore

eman, Friday, 10 October 2008 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Moka, Friday, 10 October 2008 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

"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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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

aaron d.g., Saturday, 11 October 2008 01:53 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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

Tobias Rapp, Sunday, 12 October 2008 00:15 (sixteen years ago) link

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

toby, Sunday, 12 October 2008 01:22 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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

toby, Sunday, 12 October 2008 02:24 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

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 (sixteen years ago) link

Finally got round to listening to this, and my first impression is that it's great! AC were starting to stray into serious/formulaic territory on the last couple of albums and EPs - not bad music, but maybe lacking that little sense of esprit you can hear coming through on tracks like "Sweet Road" off Sung Tongs. I love the panpipe section on Graze - a very different sound to what I'm used to hearing from AC. Similarly, "Sky" which I saw em play at Glasto is a lovely airy, almost Boards-Of-Canadaish piece. Nice one.

dog latin, Sunday, 6 December 2009 12:39 (fifteen years ago) link

Animal Collective's "Fall be Kind"

a dedicated thread as it deserves it !

AlXTC from Paris, Sunday, 6 December 2009 12:55 (fifteen years ago) link

whoah, pithfork AND mojo's favorite album of the year. strange cred bedfellows

kamerad, Friday, 18 December 2009 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

there's a band called golden girls now

s1oc'd after dark (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 01:34 (fourteen years ago) link

There's a venue called Merriweather Post Pavilion now.

Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 01:41 (fourteen years ago) link

This band is still called "shit".

striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 01:43 (fourteen years ago) link

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I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 05:11 (fourteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Never gonna give you up. Never gonna let you down.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 4 February 2010 01:41 (fourteen years ago) link

three months pass...

<333

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Saturday, 29 May 2010 05:41 (fourteen years ago) link

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs258.snc1/10535_279983485371_694900371_9330911_6411022_n.jpg

― kshighway1, Wednesday, November 11, 2009 7:04 AM (6 months ago)

Bee OK, Saturday, 29 May 2010 05:45 (fourteen years ago) link

one of the best threads ILM has had, too much good stuff.

Bee OK, Saturday, 29 May 2010 05:46 (fourteen years ago) link

up to date: 2024 replies.

rick and roll was great fun.

Bee OK, Saturday, 29 May 2010 05:50 (fourteen years ago) link

one of the best threads ILM has had, too much good stuff.

― Bee OK

____________________________________________

This band is still called "shit".

― striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato)

Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 29 May 2010 06:13 (fourteen years ago) link

can

unfunperson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 4 June 2010 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link

i

unfunperson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 4 June 2010 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link

just

unfunperson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 4 June 2010 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link

looks like people are having fun but fucking groan

0xCAFED00D (LOLK), Friday, 4 June 2010 17:54 (fourteen years ago) link

I don't even want to press play.

scott pgwp (pgwp), Friday, 4 June 2010 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link

also via HRO iirc:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO0f853ejAo

ksh, Saturday, 5 June 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link

When will this end?

Jews Newton (van smack), Saturday, 5 June 2010 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link

Define "this"

ksh, Saturday, 5 June 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link

http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2010/06/cassettes-wont-listen-introduces

Cassettes Won't Listen Debuts Animal Ox (Animal Collective meets Cannibal Ox Remix) On XLR8R

(I haven't listened to it yet, but kind of worried I might like it if I did)

ke$ha in the rye (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 19 June 2010 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link

First The Grey Album, then Girl Talk, and now this.

Doesn't XLR8R cover electronic music all day? Why are they talking about plunderphonics/mashups in a way that would be condescending to an eighth grader?

ke$ha in the rye (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 19 June 2010 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link

spoiler: this is completely fucking unlistenable.

ke$ha in the rye (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 19 June 2010 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link

hold on

i am shocked

Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 19 June 2010 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link

they should've done a mashup of cannibal ox and gr80 & i's MPP fake leak

Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 19 June 2010 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link

i figured there was a parallel between El-P's flighty Moroder obsessions and AnCo's cinematic flutter that could be exploited, and plus I like both artists a bunch. But Cassettes Won't Listen just bungles simple shit like rhythm or key. Also there's pretty much NEVER been a good album-length "ARTIST MEETS ARTIST LOL" mash-up album in the history of time and that includes the suuuper spotty Grey Album

ke$ha in the rye (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 19 June 2010 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link

but what about the grey album

Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 19 June 2010 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_tie#Stereotypes_of_bow_tie_wearers

roxymuzak, Thursday, 1 July 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link

I like the Neon Indian album, but not enough to start a thread. So I'm just saying it here.

village idiot (dog latin), Monday, 12 July 2010 11:45 (fourteen years ago) link

four months pass...

http://i52.tinypic.com/sys68o.gif

Josh "Deakin" Dibb, the somewhat-elusive fourth member of Animal Collective who sat out the recording and touring for 2009's Merriweather Post Pavilion, is back in the band.
http://i52.tinypic.com/sys68o.gif

http://pitchfork.com/news/40842-deakin-back-in-animal-collective/

markers, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 06:25 (fourteen years ago) link

shit

tim lincecum in a giants snuggie (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link

five months pass...

iGay

― iGay, Saturday, December 13, 2008 8:57 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hillybilly death worship (absolutely clean glasses), Saturday, 21 May 2011 10:20 (thirteen years ago) link

three years pass...

haha wow i never saw harvey's paper on this

gr8080, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link

oh man, I didn't realize that he was the "academic doofus" he was talking about there.

how's life, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link

jesus, merriweather came out 6 years ago

when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Thursday, 29 January 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link

I know! God!

Mark G, Thursday, 29 January 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link

Did ILM do a MPP pre-cover? I know we did Centipede HZ

Nekomizu don't work (MaresNest), Thursday, 29 January 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link

no

Mark G, Thursday, 29 January 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link

I haven't felt the urge to listen to this record in aeons... although for some reason or other 'Also Frightened' appeared out of nowhere in my head the other day.

You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Thursday, 29 January 2015 18:58 (nine years ago) link

Raggett N (2012). Personal interview. 19 October 2011.

uncle banmee who can remember his live posts (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 29 January 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link

I tried to listen to it 21 times in a row last year, but only made it 6.

how's life, Thursday, 29 January 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link

nine years pass...

This album

calstars, Sunday, 27 October 2024 23:01 (one month ago) link

pretty crazy that this thread had no posts for 9 years. i'm guessing there was a poll for this album

mizzell, Monday, 28 October 2024 16:01 (one month ago) link

did that one guy ever get to take his trip to Africa?

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 28 October 2024 17:13 (one month ago) link

Did he ever get his four walls and adobe slabs?

MarkoP, Monday, 28 October 2024 17:24 (one month ago) link

they moved to an annual subscription model iirc

assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 28 October 2024 19:06 (one month ago) link


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