Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

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