Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

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