Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/3136/backgroundpg5.jpg

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

no, new studio album

where does it say studio album

oh domino usa site says it

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.

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.

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)

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.

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

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?

n/m thanx wiki.

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

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

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.

Fuuuuuuck I hope beta blog is OTM.

I love the font, fwiw.

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

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?

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*

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

and not in a good way

also when did they become a jam band

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

(where) is you deakin?

"(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.'"

they were probably just fucking with that guy, though.

"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?

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 “.

Oh yeah, its a total dance-surface filler!

STRAWBERRY JAM FUCKIN ROOLS SCHOOLZ UR ALL NUTS OR SOMETHING

"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

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

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.

also when did they become a jam band

wait really

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

"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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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".

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.

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.

Wow, you actually just put into words exactly what I wanted to say.

that is a great post dominique.

Yes, good post Dominique! I do disagree with it though.

"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."

Dominique you say "I'm not as interested..." which implies you acknowledge this is a personal bias you bring to the table.

If we can agree that maturity or synthesis isn't a universal a priori good, we can probably also agree that the reverse holds true as well - that is, a band's incendiary early work isn't by definition its best. I don't think we can dismiss the possibility that sometimes a maturisation or "smoothing out" of a band's aesthetic can be a positive or productive process. At any rate for the most part I think such terms are applied too quickly and airily, and they ignore what I might call the complex topography of maturity. At this point many developmental arcs come to mind. Can going from Tago Mago to Future Days, Joni Mitchell from Blue to Hejira, Steely Dan from Countdown To Ecstasy to Aja. In each case what seems from one perspective to be a regrettable "smoothing out", "synthesis" of earlier ideas and general "maturation" of sound could equally be characterised as a transformation of the aesthetic landscape into something equally as spiky, as challenging, as difficult, as restless as the previous work.

More generally I think that notions of "maturity" in music are always rather controversial, and whenever people take a strong stand on this issue (for or against) it's usually at least partly a statement about themselves and how they relate to music. In response to this I feel it's important to establish a critical distance from such too-quick partiality. In the above examples I prefer the second album in each duo I listed, and while I might say "maturity" has something to do with it in each case, I could easily list several counter-examples pointing in the other direction. "Maturity" itself is not a property or essence but an articulation; it's the quality of the articulation that is important rather than the presence/absence of the property that is articulated.

In spite of my long screed, I would take issue with any attempt to equate synthesis with maturity, either in general or in the particular case of Animal Collective, though I'm not going to assume you're necessarily arguing that point.

In fact I probably have a corresponding (though opposing) bias in favour of a notion of synthesis that cannot be reduced to maturity or "smoothing out".

I love Here Comes The Indian but prefer Strawberry Jam because I discern in it the same sonic impulses working through and emerging out of a more defined song structure. This doesn't result in an inevitable taming or "smoothing out" of those impulses; if anything I'd argue that the sonic template (and its concomitant sense of possibility, unpredictability and ingenuity) is wildly expanded here; it's as if forcing their imagination through the narrow funnel of "the song" created an irrepressible and explosive friction, the tension between form (song) and content (sound) creating a fizziness and trembliness that is relatively absent in the earlier album because all those interesting sonic ideas have very little to bounce themselves off against. I feel like less is at stake when the songs wander off into noise on Here Comes The Indian because from the outset it presents itself as an excursion into noise (and surely the notion of noise being weirdly pretty is at this point a founding myth (though not an untrue one) of a certain brand of indie-rock and its familiars). In less generous moments Here Comes The Indian strikes me as almost secure in its attempt to play to a particular audience. Whereas Strawberry Jam seems to want to introduce different audiences to one another and watch to find out whether they make friends, war or babies - this isn't about seizing middleground consensus so much as engaging with the risk of confrontation.

Up to and including Feels I think your description of the band's narrative arc makes more sense, as everything up to that point involved a progressive structuration of the band's sound without a corresponding expansion of that sound. Strawberry Jam is the point where I think this story breaks down. This sudden flip (intensified song structure somehow leading into massively broadened sonic horizon) reminds me (as so much stuff does) of the beam of light refracted through the shard to produce a rainbow on the cover of Dark Side of the Moon, and I like the idea of bands subjecting themselves to a radical restriction of scope in order to bore through their own aesthetic into a new soundworld.

tim is otm about strawberry jam! i love much of their previous output, but strawberry jam really does feel like the birth of a new animal collective to me, one that's continued through water curses as well (though "seal eyeing" is very feels-y)

I completely disagree with Tim

TS: Tim or Dominique?

i think it's correct to say that a synthesis of smoothing out is not necessarily directly opposed to a honed complexity. the latter seems to be a more articulate way of stating the former. smoothing out doesn't always equate to less radical. maybe it's just more cerebral (another loaded word).

maybe it's more cerebral intuitive.

great posts by both Tim and Dominique, it saddens me that I can't agree with both.

I dunno that I really hear any kind of striving for "progression" or refinement or the synthesis yr speaking of in any of their albums. Which is part of why everything they do still excites me like few others can. Even Strawberry Jam and Feels, both pretty tight and closed machines of albums (more so SJ) that don't really have any of the kind of uneasy joy found in the loose threads of Here Comes the Indian, say, still sound to me like the products of a band whose primary drive (or one of them) is to not get at all comfortable, always put themselves out there in basically unknown territory. Everything they've done has managed to thrill me in a completely different way than what came before.

My only hope for this album is that I haven't familiarised myself with the new songs too much and maybe lose some of the impact. The last three albums I had heard the songs before but avoided listening to them too much, and that worked out pretty well.

I still think Strawberry Jam sounds like Arcade Fire.

have you listened to either?

anyway tim and dominique's posts - classics or duds?

i, as usual, am very excited to hear this.

i've seen them three times since strawberry jam and i recognize a few of the titles from the live show. 'No More Runnin' and 'Daily Routine' should be highlights.

what a great band.

Da, enlightening posts by Tim and Dom both, and at various times I have gone back and forth between their positions. My question would be, how long did that Here Comes the Indian moment last? I certainly wouldn't put the first two records in with HCTI, not even close-- they touch on some of those elements, but with far less success IMO.

i've always felt the same way, mark (if I read your comment the right way). The first couple or so I think served (at least for me) as just a way for them to figure out what worked and what didnt. Sometimes the result was forgettable, other times it was beautiful. it wasnt until they became fully formed as a band (around HCTI that those sounds and ideas morphed into fully realized concepts, and most of us can agree the rest is history.

closing parenthesis after HCTI

the first three tracks on Hollindagin are even better, i think, at presenting the early rawness and loose threads balanced with the power of a fully formed band.

better than HCTI, I mean.

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, Thursday, October 9, 2008 11:32 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark

I was just reading through everything after my comment 5 days ago and realized I meant Sung Tongs, not Feels, as their turning point. Which isn't saying much or bringing anything new to the table, other than that I think it's my favorite AC album. I do, though, need to go back and revisit some old AC, Here Comes the Indians really is pretty good. A lot of what people are saying around here, especially Tim and Merdeyeax, make me want to go back and plays some of these albums again. And I do hope that new album has some good stuff on it. The tracklisting doesn't have that "walk around with you" song they played at their show last year - it was really good with the big show bass they had.

*Indian

this is way too much information but if you are interested in the MIX:

http://mixonline.com/recording/mixing/mixing_outside_lines/index3.html

will pull out the Animal Collective part:

While Allen’s discography is decidedly urban—having coming up engineering late-'90s New York City hip-hop and later helping to cultivate the Dirty South crunk movement—his work has attracted more rock bands lately, and most recently the uber-experimental Brooklyn art-rock band Animal Collective. “They hired me to record and mix because they wanted really aggressive low end on their new album,” he shares. “My background being in urban music, managing low end is one of the things I do really well.”

Just prior to hitting Chase Park Transduction Studios to mix the Animal Collective record, Allen describes the highly creative recording and pre-mixing process. “To get the low end they wanted, we set up four different reamping stations in the studio—using a Fender spring reverb, an Ampeg Portaflex bass amp, a little Gibson guitar amp and the huge QSC P.A. system they use for their live shows,” describes Allen. “They’d record things straight out of their samplers through the Neve 80 Series desk into Pro Tools, and then we’d reamp the kick drum or the snare drum or 20 snare drums or bass synth parts through one of those stations, pick the sound we liked best and record that back into the computer.”

Putting up room mics and reamping these low-end elements gives the band the “live” sound they’re after, as Allen explains. “We’re using that setup to create ambience that didn’t exist in the samples themselves, which makes them sound like a band playing in a room.”

Pre-mixing in-the-box throughout the recording process encouraged productive decision-making. “As each part gets recorded, and often triple- or quadruple-tracked, I take all those mics and run them through an aux input in Pro Tools and effect it at that stage, and get a balance,” he explains. “So once I open up the Pro Tools sessions, the rough mixes are all balanced, and in mixing it becomes a question of what will be up front and what will go behind? Also, we’ve left it open enough so that we can make decisions on how much room—or dirt—we want on the sound, or how closed and tight we want it to feel.”

Going into the mix, Allen shares, “The whole vibe is to have this really tight and punchy low end, like a New York hip-hop record, and then this really washy Beach Boys–style vocal approach. We went and bought a bunch of spring reverbs and cheap reverbs on eBay that we’re going to use for vocals, a lot of which are triple- or quadruple-tracked.”

Allen will use his 32 channels of outputs to submix on the Sony MXP-3036 console at Chase Park, and plans to experiment extensively with both outboard and plug-in processing while mixing with Animal Collective. “They’ve booked two weeks to mix 12 songs and they want to experiment as much as possible,” Allen adds. In addition to effects pedals and plate reverbs, Allen talks up some highly creative plug-ins, noting that he plans to use Audio Ease’s Speakerphone plug-in on Animal Collective tracks. “Instead of just EQ'ing a big mid-boost and cutting the low and high end to get a radio effect, with Speakerphone you have 30 to 40 models of all these different devices—walkie-talkies, P.A. systems and megaphones—and all these different environments,” he describes. “It’s infinitely tweakable, an awesome plug-in.”

didn't like Strawberry Jam but am liking the production talk

I like the emphasis on low-end - their show last year had the rumble of a rap concert. Maybe it was just the sound in the Fillmore but it was eerily intense. Combined with the repetiveness of the Strawberry Jam songs and the jammy nature of the songs, it was kind of an endless bass stomp (in a good way). I'm excited to hear the new one.

They’ve booked two weeks to mix 12 songs and they want to experiment as much as possible.

you think?

When I saw them in dublin the low-end was unbearable, it was great! But there was so many people talking really loudly around me (the very front) about having a gang gang dance t-shirt and "being into good music", then they complained that this concert was crap because the sound guy hadn't a clue!

"walk around with you" song = Summertime Clothes

The videos from the midi fest are pretty good too.

http://myanimalhome.net/images/invite.jpg

am probably gonna go to this, having never been to a listening party before. i wonder whether it will be cheese and wine or hushing and reverence.

that clip above's so amazing.

http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/index.php?blog=6&p=992&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#more992

guess I'm the only one who'd like MPP to sound less like Person Pitch

Avey is so hot in that

i remember the first time i saw them being really alarmed that he could actually do that larynx-scream on-cue, not just in the frazzled after-eight-hours-of-singing-twist-and-shout way.

http://myanimalhome.net/images/merriweatherCVR.jpg

http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badassbuddy_com-slowburner.gif

guess I'm the only one who'd like MPP to sound less like Person Pitch

― sonderangerbot, Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:10 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

ur not btw

i thought the panda songs on strawberry jam that sounded like more refined versions of person pitch songs were great but i wouldn't want all of mpp to sound like that necessarily

is that the cover? it's moving.

i will be mega disappointed if this ends up sounding like person pitch

also that cover is neat and all but i was hoping it would look like the pic in the original post which is gorgeous and actually made me really excited about the music!

yeah i agree

Really? I was desperately hoping that wouldn't be the cover, it's got a kind of wannabe Dave McKean/earnest Tori Amos "goth"-lite ickiness to it. To me, anyway.

I'm expecting something closer to the Panda tracks on Strawberry Jam perhaps crossed with "Safer".

Did I miss something? Is Panda Bear taking the driver's seat this time around?

Personally I'm hoping it takes off from Strawberry Jam. I liked the direction they were going.

the last 2 clips posted totally rule.

"Did I miss something? Is Panda Bear taking the driver's seat this time around?"

Not necessarily, but the tenor of a lot of the live sets has been rather similar to, say, "No #1", for long stretches. Less aggressive and herky-jerky than most of the Avey stuff on Strawberry Jam.

I don't see how anyone could possibly choose the pic in the original post over the fabulous moving one.

Akiyoshi Kitaoka

Not necessarily, but the tenor of a lot of the live sets has been rather similar to, say, "No #1", for long stretches. Less aggressive and herky-jerky than most of the Avey stuff on Strawberry Jam.

Ah, I see. I've been skipping all the live youtubes and mp3s; waiting for the album itself. I like #1, though it took time to grow on me. If they made a whole album that sounded like Person Pitch or the second half of Feels, it wouldn't be the end of the world... but it'd be less interesting to me. I've yet to hear AC do that kind of song many times in a row and keep it interesting from beginning to end. I feel like there's nothing to Person Pitch as a whole that the long version of "Bros" doesn't execute all by itself. And "Banshee Beat" aside, I think most the second half of Feels is self-indulgent.

I was just listening to that song Suspended in Gaffa by Kate Bush and the background vocal stuff she does in it sounds so much like Animal Collective it's insane.

Listen again here:

Wait, is the stoner leaf illusion the actual cover? Crossing fingers, for real.

I don't see how anyone could possibly choose the pic in the original post over the fabulous moving one.

because of colours : D

The blogotheque clips have been floating around forever and I think they predate Strawberry Jam, or its release at least. One of them is Another White Singer from Manatee Danse.

Someone posted Kate Bush on this thread! Oh my god, you've made my night. Thanks.

Wait, is the stoner leaf illusion the actual cover? Crossing fingers, for real.

― z "R" s (Z S), Thursday, October 23, 2008 3:57 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

Yes, if the local Seattle "alternative" weekly paper is to be believed, (and I saw it before this thread was revived) the moving leaf thing is the real sleeve.

Sorry to be too "dudeish",but I think,potentially,that this album might RULE.

I mean...I hope it rules.I think that it could.

holy living shit @ "Brother Sport" live on NPR

if the whole album is this awesome i may be able to just drop everything else and listen to AC all day and all night

i went and heard this tonight, at the listening partly they sweetly and freely arranged. it's a great record: i can't wait to get to know it, hear it on headphones etc. it's got the continuity and otherness of records like loveless, and such a different, full, bold sound - really new-amerykah-beat-driven, and really electrically synthesised and busy. it seems like a lot of the kind of manic eccentricities of ac are slightly sidelined while they do something just straightahead new and strong.

oh man i'm really jealous. can't wait to hear this

OT: does anyone have the new Fredrik record Na Na Ni? I've listened to almost all of the tracks either on their myspace or last.fm, but I cannot find it anywhere (I think it was released today, the 28th). "Alina's Place" is one of the best songs of the year, IMO. anyway, if anyone could help me out, that'd be great :)

hahaha thought you guys were totally kidding about the cover art, that thing was posted on noizeboard a couple years ago but the original image disappeared

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Almonds are noize?

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oh jesus that is awesome

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Those almonds are better than acid. At least at this point in my life.

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i have seen god and he is an almond

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whoah, that is cool. how do i shot pulsating gif image?

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the postcard they had at the listening party doesn't move as much for me as the internet image. also, the record is crazy and so awesome. i can't belive the quote iheard by them saying they didn't know if it would sound electronic to people or not. it sounds completely electronic.

mizzell, it was a printing issue. that's why it didn't move.

that's funny.

playing nyc the day the lp drops, touring and stuff.

dammit/same day as inauguration roadtrippin' possibilities.

doors open at 8 -- how far is dc from nyc?

one song from this has leaked. it is good.

production is so clear like that gang gang dance album. this is a good trend.

Clear production would be a BIG bonus for me from them.

I am equally against clear production for AC ... I prefer it when they sound weird and mysterious.

site:rapidshare.com merriweather post pavilion

nothing

let me know when this leaks

http://cdn-www.answerbag.com/images/answers/97743/166275/tmb_you_got_it_dude.jpg

God knows I hate to be a tease, but this record is just sublime!

i can't belive pfork is linking to the leaked track...

what part of that don't you get?

don't they usually only show sanctioned things in that section?

i dont know. it seems like they make it pretty clear that they just got the link from somewhere else. and it's not like they're hosting it or anything.

Animal Collective gone electronic.
wake up - Trance lovers

((((((d-_-b)))))

brothersport sounds quite good...i think if it was my first time hearing it i'd be floored.
that being said, having heard the NPR session or whatever it was about 50 times already, I think i prefer that one :(

Has this leaked already? I keep reading on several blogs and music sites of how 'my girls' and 'bluish' are some of AC's best work.

just a few songs...the ones you mentioned and the one i mentioned above

Could somebody post a link to the album version of "Brothersport"? Anybody?

psst...
http://hypem.com/search/brothersport/1/

http://grizzly-bear.net/blog/

Could somebody post a link to the album version of 'my girls' and 'bluish'? Anybody?

also, after hearing it once, i would say that bro sport is the song that probably improved the least from live to record because it utilized their live energy the most.
also this rip from the french podcast or whatever is pretty bad quality. think it will sound better on the record.

thank you thank you thank you

i heard an excerpt from the album version of "also frightened".
the track is amazing.
sounds like a track that could be from "piper at the gates of dawn", on;y with the AC touch.

on first listen, the npr live version trumps the studio version by a lot - studio version's too clean, not overwhelming enough somehow. of course, i'm listening to this on Windows Media Player right now - car speakers might make this sound different...

still a great, great song tho

doors open at 8 -- how far is dc from nyc?

― kamerad, Thursday, November 6, 2008 4:05 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

i was actually toying with this, because there's a five pm train (with inauguration lasting til four, apparently, but i don't know what portion of the proceedings that covers) that would theoretically cruise you right back into the city in time to bowl in and see them play. but i heard whispers that dc is going to be busy on january the twentieth, that transport and getting around might be confusing. it also makes me feel stupid because i'd be leaving something historical to be all muso for the evening, so i'm trying to force myself to go inauguration, if i can make it.

anyway - bro sport is the most straightforward transition from live to record - things like my girls are way different, different parts, big badu beats rather than the kind of ephemeral (sorry, i am not a journalist) synth noise of the live versions.

mizzell and beatrix OTM. i said something similar upthread

hahaha thought you guys were totally kidding about the cover art, that thing was posted on noizeboard a couple years ago but the original image disappeared

I remember posting it at one point on nb, almost said something last month when I saw an interview w/ the album cover artist talking about it like he'd painted the ceiling of the sistine chapel

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/thelatestworks35cn.gif

I downloaded it from some azn dude who had a site of optical illusions he'd developed, I remember opening it in a graphics program to make sure it wasn't an animated gif

I just want to be the first to say that "Summertime Clothes" is gonna be the jam to pwn all jams on this album.

is "Brother Sport" nu-balearic?

maybe this album will actually have some cohesion (aka music theory) that the other albums so much lacked. not that I have anything against avant-garde or experimental music, but I like mine about 60/40 weird/normal. animal collective has been consistently about 90/10 weird(noodling around)/normal.

I am listening to Summertime Clothes right now... I'm halfway through it and I do notice some more for lack of a better term, music theory, but overall it's not very memorable in the same way as I don't play my Future Sounds of London - Lifeforms album very often.

Say what?

I might go to the album playback tomorrow, most likely not as I need the overtime moolah more.

animal collective has been consistently about 90/10 weird(noodling around)/normal.

?! Strawberry Jam was a totally normal indie rock record, it sounded like Deerhunter?!

yeah; i think the first few records are a little frustratingly stop and start, but this does not apply to strawberry jam.

y'oughtta go to the playback, craig, the one i went to was fun. it made me wish that there were evenings with people sitting on chairs listening to records being played even without the fanfare of it being new, or whatever.

most excited about bopping around to my girls and bluish when it comes out. take THAT, summertime clothes. daily routine too.

?! Strawberry Jam was a totally normal indie rock record, it sounded like Deerhunter?!

I'm sorry, but someone has to say it: RONG!

what the hell

i mean it did sound like more normal indie rock but deerhunter nooo

I just don't think it sounds weird at all.

"i mean it did sound like more normal indie rock"

i feel like a lot of indie rock acts sound like this, or at least try to in one way or another.

I dunno, I think I have a massive grudge against Strawberry jam because it was the moment I had to admit that they really just wanted to be an indie rock band, I had previously thought there was something singular and special about them and there was.

"i mean it did sound like more normal indie rock"

i feel like a lot of indie rock acts sound like this, or at least try to in one way or another.

― Andrew Sandwich, Wednesday, December 3, 2008 3:11 AM (1 minute ago)

this is all well and good but I was disagreeing with a post that said 90/10 weird to rock ratio

uh from what i've heard isn't this supposed to be less like SJ? i agree it was very indie-rock-y, but i didn't think it was bad.
btw someone please leak this thx

normal indie rock record

ok maybe they are about 80/20.. I was exaggerating.. the point being that listening to animal collective is like listening to drunks whelping over a morphing moog. also way too flowery.

i wish this would leak already

everytime i see this thread i think "maybe it's leaked".
and everytime it's a tiny disappointment

^^^but "considerably-sized"

I'm excited for this album, assuming they shake off some of the strawberry stuff and add more water curses. they're like a modern day disco inferno kind of.

haha!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3187/3083240768_f9a88f7bab_b.jpg

hey look it's British people listening to the new album. What an exciting time to be on the internet.

so much converse

picture is missing guy doing cartwheels down the hallway

ha ha.
there's also another guy catching the visual feast of people laying around on a messy flaw listening to music a photograph can not capture, for posterity, on the left.

Track by track review with plenty of live clips. They were phenomenal at Primavera. I danced like a loon on Jaegermeister and Pro-Plus - the closest I'll get to class A's.

http://thequietus.com/articles/00838-animal-collective-merriweather-post-pavilion-track-by-track-review

judging by that pic this is a boring record

looks like a bunch of people waiting for a late pizza delivery

lol

"should we just call again?? they said the guy just left like an hour ago!"

Love this part of the review:

‘Guy’s Eyes’

A juddering, stop-start percussion job with some ambitious and divergent vocal parts.

Not that I could do much better - I'm awful at describing music.

"There appear to be several different tones...at the same time, creating some harmonic effects. WAIT! now there are drums, there may or may not be more than one person playing them together, in rhythm. Then an instrumental section, WAIT! some vocals again! and fade."

looks like something leaked

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3187/3083240768_f9a88f7bab_b.jpg

are there any women at that thing at all?

they had one of those fairground signs: you must have this much wispy facial hair to enter.

nb in the interests of full disclosure i have a beard that looks like it was drawn on by someone who was bored while on the phone.

also, despite it looking really like some east european bombed out headquarter, seeing this reminds me what a super cool thing it is to do for fans. i can't think of any other groups who put on freebie listening parties in dark rooms with group dj sets, and it's pretty weak that their reward is cellphone recordings of the record appearing on the internet.

i thought this album leaked a long time ago... what did I listen to?

oh, it is live... well maybe that explains why I hated it a lot as opposed to a little

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/starla_zero/emoboy6ez.jpg

is he crying?

he's CRYING IN THE CLUB

dot jpeg!!

what's his deal?
i love how people are standing around taking pic though...real community feel

"pics"

lol white guys

he is just upset cause the web sheriff sent him a letter

not to be a fun hater or anything but am i the only one who thinks that that pic has nothing to do with humiliation? the fact that ppl are taking pics kinda makes me feel like he was really surprised about something and is in a tears of joy moment or somethin

i like the web sheriff story better tho

by the looks of his shows he's a pansy

shoes*

I always thought cryingintheclub.jpg looked like he was about to puke.

this will probably get my fiend at Domino fired.... but Merry Xmas ILM!!!!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/s5ke8m

thanks dude

holy fuckin shit grady!!

i can attest by the first 60 seconds that this will be a classic

lol

EPIC

i like this way better than anything i've heard by them

eh not sure about this after the first couple of tracks. kinda running in place, aren't they?

wow "my girls" pwns

gr80 thank u a million for this

i don't know man, i think this will definitely be considered their "kid a" moment.

have to be honest: makes me never want to give up

*dies*

they made the record that chinese democracy should have been

tell me it's good!

good is an understatement. dealing hard over here.

What's it like!

i knew that they were kinda leaning balearic but this is god

i swear, this band just rolls with every punch and puts out great record after great record

no let up from these guys

you people are drinking the kool aid imo

grady, ive mailed you my heart

dude, you need to hold onto that

you have to with animal collective or you're missing the point imo xpost

http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/resources/2006/10/police_x3.jpg

http://www.classictvquotes.com/images/gallery/jack-donaghy_471x336.jpg

seriously? ok i'm listening to it and i "get" what they're trying to do, i "get" animal collective. but this is pretty weak. maybe it's just a shitty leak or whatever but the production sucks and the tunes are total shit at first pass.

i can guarantee there are some dudes that work for domino that lurk here. dl that shit before it gets taken down.

sounds promising!

I'm glad this is more water curses than sj

hahahahahahahha good one!

Somehow this seems even more "experimental" than something like Here Comes The Indian, yet definitely rooted in pop...wow...Gr8080 you RULE.

this is like when everyone was hyped up for hardest way to make an easy living and kept trying to tell themselves it was "good" when anyone with a brain recognized that it "blew"

omar consistently off the money in this thread -- AC have stepped up their game in a big way

huge huge album here dunno how anyone could hear it differently -- by far the best album and will be tough to top in 09

surprised this isnt on what yet... we may get a visit from the sherriff just yet

oh wow this is the best shit i've ever heard. gr80 you are seriously teh coolest bro in the world and i'm going to give you a big wet hug when i come to hawaii

my mind is seriously blown right now. if only i was eating pizza drizzled with dark chocolate right now i would be in omg heaven.

grady you are so fucking amazing.

y/h?

i can only concur, this is the best of its sort i've ever experienced, or could ever imagine

oh wow this is the best shit i've ever heard. gr80 you are seriously teh coolest bro in the world and i'm going to give you a big wet hug when i come to hawaii

^^^sick

I think I've already found my #1 of 2009.

so am i the only one that just got rickrolled

what?

ffs, 'uptown churl'

http://tim.movementarian.com/wp-content/real%20genius.jpg

i just downloaded that zip and it was 'never gonna give you up' 9 times.

I RUINED THE JOKE BAN ME

http://codebloo.net/stuff/picard-headesk.jpg

ffs, 'uptown churl'

― country matters, Saturday, 6 December 2008 02:43 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

actually it was 11 times you boring piece of shit

suggesthttp://i12.tinypic.com/4ya30k4.gif

more than 11 as it restarted during each 'song', but it hurts my heart to have to give specifics :(

here's a specific: you are suggest banned :)

sorry getting you 2 mixed up

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f110/jim7bob/banned-1.gif

TEAM

what is our next move?

♪☺♫☻ it is ok. i accept that your motives were pure.

on the + side im sure many people wont read the whole thread before dling

what can i say im gullible. sorry if inadvertently thwarting a rickroll in late 2008 ruined anyone's friday night! ... maybe now it's time to go out and have some drinks eh?

i think most ppl will click the download but it wont finish by the time they get to the bottom

link is lost in the "posts hidden" bit, maybe this sordid episode can be similarly buried and the link re-upped

Best to blow as much hot air as possible then?

yeah you are all assuming people will want to read an entire thread about an unreleased album, but maybe "im gullible", who knows

are you and uptown churl like some sort of country mouse / city mouse tag team?

there is unfortunate serendipity in our choices of username, granted

just stop reminding people about grady's rickrolling prank

wait, so this is a fake. fuck.

kev it's only the first song

the rest are demos

jordan, is this it or not, im conf. it's halfway done dling, should i keep going. seriously though, i could be studying for finals (next week but still), but i was going to put it off if this was the real deal. just hit me with the truth plz

there is unfortunate serendipity in our choices of username, granted

― country matters, Friday, December 5, 2008 5:12 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

....louis????

haha kev fuck animal collective and fuck finals -- you are in college and it's friday night

it's real though ;-)

haha i knoww but there's nothing going on due to the time of year (finals), besides this one party i got invited to. didnt feel like paying five bucks anyway :p
but it's real? great, i'm excited. DONT LET ME DOWN :)

kevin k reconsidered.

you're getting SO MANY suggest bans if this is fake :p

u can only suggest ban us once each

8---D~ ~ ~ ~

FUCK YOU GUYS

"UGH, not okay guys"
-Liz Lemon

lol

this leak is bringing 1000s of hits to my blog

kudos

bless your little heart, kevin.

roxy-- any comments yet?

mostly rude

http://leaksnleaks.blogspot.com/

^^this blog has the leak up too

*THIS THREAD IS NOW ABOUT NIRVANA*

http://roxymuzak.blogspot.com/2008/12/animal-collective-merriweather-post.html

lol, did you make those comments?

this is my favorite animal collective unreleased free download fast file transfer new animal collective album download Merriweather Post Pavilion of the year

free, safe, anonymous

xpost

sadly only a couple

guys i just got like 600 hits to my blog in an hour

on a fri night too!

lol @ nabisco comment

Ned Raggett said...

Dang! This sounds like much goodness. :-)
December 5, 2008 11:57 PM

guys i have lost control

kevin i see you: http://www.stephenmalkmus.com/punbb/upload/viewtopic.php?pid=218566

being talked about here also http://animalcollective.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26&start=20

kk you have been suggest banned

haha just tryna save that dude the time. i'm all for punking other peeps tho :D

xp http://www.kimball.k12.sd.us/FIRE/home%20alone.jpg

well wouldnt you like to punk everyone on there?

i kind of know the person who upped that. i kind of know the person who upped that. i kind of know the person who upped that. i kind of know the person who upped that. i kind of know the person who upped that. i kind of know the person who upped that. i kind of know the person who upped that. i kind of know the person who upped that. i kind of know the person who upped that. i kind of know the person who upped that. i kind of know the person who upped that.

lol, why did you post it on the malk board of all places though? if i didn't check here already i totally would have fell for it

hahaha

HA FINE *DELETES*

hahaha

thankig u

lex pretend said...

blimey, this is better'n rihanna!
December 6, 2008 12:07 AM

Anonymous said...

The end of the Mayan calendar falls on December 21, 2012
December 6, 2008 12:13 AM

yeah wtf at that one

ugh now im not gonna believe anyone who actually leaks it :/
lol if this blows the internet up i will be so happy

you guys that was just the same song over and over again not real

re-up 4 those who missed it: http://www.sendspace.com/file/s5ke8m

*downloading*

i knew that they were kinda leaning balearic but this is god

― Bomb Sackantino (J0rdan S.), Saturday, December 6, 2008 12:03 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

A++

grady u have expanded space and time by leaking this record for us
thank u YOU ARE THE MAN

:D @ the saint entienne sample in "blueish"

these dudes are amazing

thanks grady!

i was so pissed but this was great!

never gonna give them up

one of the few bands that hasn't let me down yet

this album has got me rickin and rollin

great album that you leaked!!!!

This is such a leap forward for them and is really making me appreciate the Feels/SJ stuff now.

Ok im gonna ruin it for those who still havent downloaded that grady 'leak' because im piss drunk and I download it in hopes of listening it and I found it was eleven times that stupid rick astley song. Yah download and get rickrolled ha ha.

I'm surprised you losers kept up with the game so far, fucking idiots, yes I got rickrolled and im on a rampage. boo hoo. I mentioned im helluv drunk yes?

lol

re-up 4 those who missed it: http://www.sendspace.com/file/s5ke8m

dude what is the password?

"guess papers"

awes, listening now!

This is really good.

"Sorry, the file you requested is not available.

The file has been deleted. It did not comply with our terms of service. "

never gonna give them up

― kamerad, Saturday, December 6, 2008 2:20 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
one of the few bands that hasn't let me down yet

― Millsner, Saturday, December 6, 2008 2:25 AM (7 hours ago)

A+

the way dudes react to this band is more extreme than the way 15-year-olds freak out about tokio hotel.

for the love of god, someone post this in ye olde terces ecalp already

all the existing links are down

maura did u listen 2 the leak tho--itll change ur opinion

Oh no it's gone again...my haert is braeking!

I like my fake quote, I do.

need a reup, the comments i had to mod on my blog today were 90% "can someone reup" (and 10% "choke on my mess of a schlong" -- ?)

< MPP ~ check out this blog right now(if you wanna be rickrolled)
alvin

New postPosted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 8:34 pm Reply with quote

Joined: 18 Mar 2008
Posts: 364
Location: NJ

http://roxymuzak.blogspot.com/

I'm sorry. We must kill this person whose blog this is.

This is her email: emily✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧
Go for it!

haha oh yeah, my gmail inbox was completely spammed this AM, p.s.

these ppl are on their shit.

one guy told me i look like a hockey player -- ????? lol

this was worse than 9/11

A little far there, Frusciante (misspelled) avatar.

ok ok

this was worse than the holocaust

worse than both of those combined times 35

ahaha amazing animal weirdos

someday i could post a catalog of the best abuse i've gotten out of this ordeal.

the winner of the last few hours is probably:

"fake shit u piece of shit, i hope u get raped by a gay slob u shithead"

um, LOL

what are those from mizzell???

yr next post should be a compendium of these titled "animal collective is pretty boring really if you think abt it"

i think i might post something in a few weeks asking animal collective fans to plz lighten the F up

no what u should do is continue to antagonize them

comments awaiting my approval right now:

fake shit u piece of shit

i hope u get raped by a gay slob u shithead

YOU ARE A MONSTER

fuck you

its bogus rickrolling

goddamnit

its bogus. download = rickrolled by a a jackass

well goddamn somebody didnt approve my comment i say i say

fake

those are from the animal collective message board. not sure if the people there are actually crazy or just 15.

pls make sure to call them "animal collection"

haha!!!

cue 1 billion emails correcting the name

apparently it is the double L

pls make sure to call them "animal collection"

― craig sager (eman), Saturday, December 6, 2008 1:02 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha yes!

ahahaaaa

we need gr8080 to reup the zip rite??

next time they should be 192 kbps

yeah that was a real beef that some people had

what someone needs to do is post as a completely pissed off AC fan, who also happens to have the "real" leak. which is also a rickroll.

lol

the best thing is that someone who had apparently downloaded from here also went to my blog and was like, oh man i hope this isnt rickrolls like the ilm one

MEGAROLLED TWICE

ahahha

such ownage

i actually do feel bad for that guy

all told, last night the blog got 2,417 views from this shenanigan

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/primrosehill/asshole.jpg

lol!

that was the first of the influx of emails

"Chornomaz"

http://www.last.fm/user/chornomaz

lol chornomaz

Recently Listened Tracks

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up 3:32
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up 3:32
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up 3:32
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up 3:32
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up 3:32
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up 3:32
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up 3:32
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up 3:32
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up 3:32
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up 3:32
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up 3:32

look at his 14th favourite artist

http://www.last.fm/music/Michael+Chornomaz

dazed and excused

for this thread, i love you ilm.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/118601.jpg

Your musical compatibility with chornomaz is High

Music you have in common includes of Montreal, Animal Collective, The Flaming Lips, The Mountain Goats and Pavement.

Upload another photo for this artist Michael Chornomaz

lol

lol @ 14th fave artist omgomgomg

Should we all leave comments on his shoutbox?

post links to astley youtube vids

really the funniest thing to me abt all of this is people so looking forward to an album - i mean its just an album

its the first album since they became a truly mainstream name. It's like their elephant

yeah it's def a big deal for better or worse

i don't know about that

yeah people are like really, really mad, like DEATH THREAD mad?!?! i can imagine dling this for the most anticipated album in my personal history and thinking "lol, i got punked!!!!" the animal collection is just a different type of fan i guess. although to be fair some of them pushed the joke along hence positive blog comments

lol death thread?

hahah THREAT

rollin' with the astley

Wait so did the album really leak or what?

NEEVVVER GONNA LET U DOWN NEEVER GONNAA....

you should use cryingintheclub.jpg as the album cover art (after you rename it ofcourse)

TEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAM

Re: New Album 2009: Merriweather Post Pavilion
by itisacode on Fri Dec 05, 2008 8:35 pm

Finally, a real leak here, for those interested: http://roxymuzak.blogspot.com/2008/12/animal-collective-merriweather-post.html#comments
itisacode

Posts: 1
Joined: Fri Dec 05, 2008 8:34 pm

total bro

luna said...
i just downloaded this to the trunk
of my car *disrobes*

hahahaha

hey guys- sorry the link got deleted. i'll re-up as soon as i can.

god bless you kind sir

wow look who just joined as a bandmember of animal collection

http://i33.tinypic.com/900tab.gif

HAHHAHAHAaaaaa

ahaha yay

the anticipation levels for this album are fairly ridiculous - in terms of how much everyone wants to hear it. seriously, google "merriweather post pavilion" and "leak" and it's like junkies fiending for great smack out there.

(admittedly i'm crazy amped for this too - more than i've been for anything in a good long while)

oh man i hope this isnt rickrolls like the ilm one

lol!

poor guy, REALLY

he was very polite

unlike michael chornomaz

when the inky periods drip from your mailbox

aw, i just realized that maybe he is also the person that sent the email reading "i was looking forward to this, and you ruined my day" or something like that

i will apologize only to him

comic sans

imeant this

I just put on Danse Manatee, I don't remember it being this good!

it's not danse manatee, it's rick astley. haha you're an idiot.

haha, no, I love when they do that song about giving you up or something, they're so weird!!!!

you suck

;_;

The best part of all of this is that I have the real album in my possession right this very second.

you ever gonna give it up, and leak it?

don't let me down

The best part of all of this is that I have the real album in my possession right this very second.

― Reatards Unite, Saturday, December 6, 2008 4:07 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol your username is a rallying call for this thread.

???

lol mizzell is #1 butthurt a.c. fan

ahha i missed this -- so corny but lol

the look on his face is all 'wtf am i doing here -- half the people in the audience have no idea whats going on'

i dont think HE really gets it, to be fair

i meant

We must kill this person whose blog this is = "retards unite!"

no offense meant to the people doing important work on this thread.

why did the cartoon network rickroll the parade goers?

possibly they were confused about the degree of media penetration this phenomena has recieved

The really sad thing is that I got soooo damn carried along with all the OMG WTF A+++++ comments on here last night, that I freaked out and blew fifteen quid online like STRAIGHTAFUCKIN'WAY to see these schmoo's play live here next year. Then I got the joke. It's gonna be shit and they're gonna suck aren't they?

(Either that or this is now a conspiracy so huuuge, that I'll get to the gig and it will just be Rick Astley playing there in some cosmic tru-life rickster deal)

Nice work anyhow ILX!

Bastards.

ahaaaha

(yeah, they're gonna suck)

last year they were supposed to be playing in dublin and just as i had gotten on the train (€50!) I got a call from ticketmaster saying that they had missed their boat (?) and that the gig was cancelled but to hold onto your tickets cos they'll be valid for the next gig. The next night I found out that they had gotten there late and played a gig at a different venue and I still have the tickets.

i liked this at first, but does anyone else think the songs are a bit samey?

gr80 could i get a re-up?

put it on mediafire or something this time so you can count the downloads

^^ idea of the year

digressing a bit:
i only just found out about the (sssooolllddd ooouutttt) bowery ballroom show, despite spending most days f5ing collected animals. so so annoyed. especially having detailed the ac versus bho dilemma upthread.

re-upped @192kbps http://link-protector.com/670740/

plz c+p that^^ link to blogs and message boards and NOT the mediafire one thanks

got damn the atease board is slow as fucc

hay guys i posted it in the radiohead forum where they have a 500something page thread about this album --

http://www.ateaseweb.com/mb/index.php?s=&showtopic=235055261&view=findpost&p=4820911

login: borgan
pw: mardigras

there were also some reax to the 'hoax' yesterday btw

guys do i need to worry about this:

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toemily✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧

ccJG <✧✧✧@websher✧✧✧.c✧✧>

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We hope you’re well and, on behalf of Domino Records and Animal Collective, we would kindly ask you not to post supposed links to copies of "Merriweather Post Pavillion" on your blog (or any tracks from the artist’s new album – street date 20th January).

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Thank you for respecting the artist's and label’s wishes … .. and, for info on “Merriweather Post Pavillion” and the band’s 2008/09 shows, check-out www.myspace.com/animalcollectivetheband and www.myanimalhome.net … .. you can also view Animal Collective videos at www.youtube.com/dominorecords and, for details of preview material and pre-release promotions, keep an eye on these official sources.

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fucking websheriff

haha the web sheriff

i shot the web sherrif...

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how many DLs of this one so far grady

Damn, I never thought I'd dig Animal Collective, but this is pretty cool.

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lol!!!

someone please finish the lyrics

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Hi ‘EmilySue’,

We hope you’re well and, on behalf of Domino Records and Animal Collective, we would kindly ask you not to post supposed links to copies of "Merriweather Post Pavillion" on your blog (or any tracks from the artist’s new album – street date 20th January).

We do appreciate that you are a fan of / are promoting Animal Collective, but the label and artist would greatly appreciate your co-operation in removing your links to the files in question (which are now dead in any event).

Thank you for respecting the artist's and label’s wishes … .. and, for info on “Merriweather Post Pavil
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Rick Astley should become the 4th member of Animal Collective, how awesome would that be. He can bring his dancing.

^^^I like this guy's positive attitude.

theyre talking about it on nme too: http://www.nme.com/boards/showthread.php?t=190740&page=12

how does it feel to be internet-famous?

death threat-y

http://soundopinions.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=18723&st=520

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QUOTE (elementus attacks! @ Dec 6 2008, 01:09 AM)
So is this link a rick roll or something? Cause that's what they're saying on atease.

Yes it's a rickroll man. Don't waste your time. A not-as-funny-as-it-should-be trick. This is rick roll terrorism. This isn't a "Haha, that's a rick roll!" rick roll.

how bout a waahmburger with a side of cries

this guy is ok!!

lol is that actually deej?

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so this is actually real then?

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nope. fucking rickroll. i swear animal collective fans/anti-fans have terrible senses of humor. this might have been funny like 6 months ago.

lol @ animal collection fan with no sense of humor callnig out animal collection fans with no senses of humor

yeah too bad animal collective didnt release this album six months ago... this prank woulda really been funny!1

where is gr8080 w/ hard #s on how many ppl downloaded this

http://www.ateaseweb.com/mb/index.php?showtopic=235058985

> Are Radiohead influenced by Fleetwood Mac?

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I don't know anything about them but I was listening to Albatross and the texture of the song seemed similar to that of In Rainbows?
Are Fleetwood worth listening to?

kevin k being a bro:

http://stereogum.com/archives/twittercomkanyewest-is-fake_040001.html

waahmburger with a side of cries

This is from Joe Dirt; which isn't such a bad movie.

hahahahaha that wasnt me! funny though :D

God I <3 this thread so much! The album will surely be dissapointing after all this fun

re-upped: http://link-protector.com/671331/

yeah this is kind of EVERYWHERE now. so very cool

grady u sir are a traet

it's made the ign boards even haha

http://boards.ign.com/teh_vestibule/b5296/174631547/p1/

xpost ouch, the idea of wondering whether or not fleetwood mac is worth your time based on whether or not they influenced radiohead just gave me a total brainfreeze. wtf etc.

Date Posted: 12/6 10:21pm Subject: I just got rick roll'd in the WORST WAY!!!
Wow, that's dedication.

http://i18.tinypic.com/6ki7x3t.jpg

you've mostly won the universe at this point

alternate link: http://tinyurl.com/animal-collection

fyi i actually listened to the entire "leak" yesterday all 11 tracks start to finish-- just in case anyone out there wished that upon me it has been granted ^__^

i think i listened to three tracks in that absent minded oh man i've left european son playing and now i'm listening to compressed noise kind of way yesterday.

kevin k being a bro:

http://stereogum.com/archives/twittercomkanyewest-is-fake_040001.html

― rox qua rox (roxymuzak), Sunday, December 7, 2008 6:37 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

hahah this was me

http://static.socialaction.pollection.com/images/rick3.gifhttp://static.socialaction.pollection.com/images/rick3.gifhttp://static.socialaction.pollection.com/images/rick3.gif

here guys

http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2008/10/merriweather-post-pavilion-listening.html

i posted the link in the comments section on his post from last night about panda bear

lol i never looked at this thread because duh fuck animal collective but you guys rule

RIP borgan :(

lol i never looked at this thread because duh fuck animal collective but you guys rule

― Freedom Passantino (some dude), Sunday, December 7, 2008 3:20 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

how is this any way for baltimore's top music critic to speak???

haha i always forget these guys were from maryland once upon a time, weren't they

i live like 20 mins from the actual Merriweather Post Pavillion, btw...i think i saw Pearl Jam there once?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/WidowOfDestiny/Jiggle_Panda.gifhttp://thelineofbestfit.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/pandabear.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/WidowOfDestiny/Jiggle_Panda.gif

haha - jiggle panda >>> panda bear

lololol @ websheriff vs roxy

How is anyone supposed take an entity called Web Sheriff seriously? It's very Village People.

This is probably the best ilm thread ever, good work roxy.

gawd I hate you guys, I quickly grab this knowing that I won't be able to listen to it for a couple of days, and when I do...

it's 128kbps. Fuck off.