Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

that's the logical next step, i suppose.

"at some point someone should start a thread that's actually about this bloody album"

done

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

yeah, i know! yet another rickroll...

people only pretend to listen to this band - instead they listen to modest mouse

Speak for yourself, buddy.

o thats rich "ilxor"

butthurt AC fans are one of the best parts of the internet imo
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l-r rick astley, gradski, me

It's so weird though, I never really thought of Animal Collective fans as being any sort of collected force until about Prospect Hummer, since then its gone a bit nuts. Even though they were my favourite band for a few years there, can I please not be tarred with this brush? I'm way more butthurt about strawberry jam than I could be by rick rolls.

btw, I got a charlie brown book for christmas, 1955-6

its been out for almost 24 hours now

how many people do you think have it?

http://www.zshare.net/download/53318330ecd202e4/

it's real. and not x-mas. boxing day. w00t.

http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2009

nominal- that thing won't open, and now can't be thrown away- is it a nasty virus of some kind? I'm a double dipped sucker for downloading anything of this thread, obviously

fool me once

I have some affection for the hyperactive kids on atease (the Collected Animals folks are 50% insane, 50% dicks, though), but something about them finally getting the album and then spending 50 pages wondering when they'd get a better quality version really fucked me the fuck off. Straw, camel's back, etc., I suppose.

P.S. that rickroll, fuuuuuuuuuuck yoooooooou. Although I've bookmarked it, obv.

it opens! it does

http://www.zshare.net/download/53318330ecd202e4/

strawberry jam is totes best animal collection album imo

I have some affection for the hyperactive kids on atease (the Collected Animals folks are 50% insane, 50% dicks, though), but something about them finally getting the album and then spending 50 pages wondering when they'd get a better quality version really fucked me the fuck off. Straw, camel's back, etc., I suppose.

P.S. that rickroll, fuuuuuuuuuuck yoooooooou. Although I've bookmarked it, obv.

I got rickrolled on Tha Carter III so I feel your pain. The shock when the synths come in is incomparable to most things in life.

have some affection for the hyperactive kids on atease (the Collected Animals folks are 50% insane, 50% dicks, though), but something about them finally getting the album and then spending 50 pages wondering when they'd get a better quality version really fucked me the fuck off. Straw, camel's back, etc., I suppose.

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i still don't believe this leak is real. i am waiting till release day, well done rickrollers.

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atease is registered only. RIP borgan

grady-roxy axis has deftly shown record labels the way to fight piracy

they're not even asking a consultants fee either

The Harvard Department of Psychology in collaboration with the Indiana University School of Education performed a study to investigate the possible relationship between measured intelligence & music appreciation. Thirty full length albums were selected that ranged from Rogers and Hammerstein to Malawian tribal healing music.Of the thirty albums somehow Person Pitch made the list. 5000 participants from a wide range of socio-economic, ethnic, & educational backgrounds were selected at random. Male/female and age groups were equally represented. The findings concluded that there is a strong relationship between measured intelligence & appreciation of specific types of musical stimulation. Genre proved to be statistically irrelevant but individual tracks and albums were observed to have a strong connection with various intelligence levels. People grouped in intelligence levels in the upper middle-tier & above were found to have a statistically significant affinity for Person Pitch.

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http://animalcollectin.6.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=4047

it's real enough. the songs are great! http://www.zshare.net/download/53318330ecd202e4/

i looked at that first post of that link, cozwn

that's nothing to get too happy about, just luck!

but i did like the sig of the one contributor:

open up your,
open up your,
open up your coke

played this right through twice, which is more than I've managed for any previous project (obv. exception PP) but I'm still confused by this band a little... I'm often not sure what my response is supposed to be emotionally to them? and fuck knows the lyrics (feel like putting that in quote marks tbh) don't help.

I dunno, compare with MBV, Slowdive etc... and I still wonder really, is it just the cool sounds they make that trumps all or are they really just a bit like, bogus?

First listen blew me away fwiw, but the second.. old feelings returning as I was hoping to get deeper into the "songs".

Dunno, help me out here :/

It *really* helps that this record appears to have actual balls (bass?) for once mind you. Suddenly, finally they actually feel not so desperately indie and that's a great thing.

fuckit! ignore last post! listening again en kitchen (streaming off laptop through lovely punchy mono radio, clears up the vocal mix a bit) and well, okay tracks 1-4 are ringing out clear as a bell :X more spins required deffo.

(maybe there's some canned weirdness later on? I don't recall right now and I need to go throw the beetroot in the pan anyway...)

safraz
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:28 pm

that's a gay study and gives lame hipsters something else to be pretentious about

nah, b. summertime clothes is the best song on the album, hands down.

its dance-able, and the lyrics are amazingggggggggggggggggggggg

Merriweather Post Pavillion

strawberry jam is totes best animal collection album imo

o thats rich "ice cr?m"

i rather like this album and I don't like anything else by them very much except for the vashti bunyan album and I only like that because of her.

I dunno, compare with MBV, Slowdive etc... and I still wonder really, is it just the cool sounds they make that trumps all or are they really just a bit like, bogus?

I think that, if you're going to compare them with bands like that, a better band to compare Animal Collective with would be early Mercury Rev. There are obviously major differences in their sounds but they have a lot in common w/ the psychedelia background and the attitude.

yeah, I've thought of and compared them to Mercury rev in the past. I guess I always felt like the approach to lyrics with this band was always just a bit too distant and considered to really actually feel I dunno, honest, genuine "true" those kind of corny qualities ILM likes to stamp on with a boot. Whatever they were doing it just didn't work for me. All the while I could tell they had more creativity invested in it than some other charlatans...

Funny thing is it seems like the more universal the sentiments they sing about lately (here, Person Pitch) the better this weird angle works (Tim describes really well on his round-up thread atm).

This album is also absolutely brilliant btw.

lol @ people raging against the "fucking font choices" and the title upthread :D geeez

I agree and think that one of the things that makes Animal Collective intriguing is that they know how to amplify their own mystique. They do for psychedelic loopiness what Radiohead does for alienation, which may explain why both bands seem to attract a similar type of fan, if not similar people.

The other thing about AC is that, though their influences seem vast, they are very much a part of the general pop culture trend which is looking to late 60s hippie-ism/mysticism with a more romantic eye than the previous generations have.

Mercury Rev did something similar with crazed psychedelia early in their career but Mercury Rev's post-Baker albums revealed MR to be a bit smartass and self-conscious about their surrealism. I remember reading that "Snowflake Midnight," as a title, is a meant to be self-parody. AC has yet to let up on the distancing effects and take the mask off, which is one of the reasons their fans seem to be endlessly fascinated by them. They also benefit greatly, as I alluded to earlier, from the fact that today's college students are too young to remember much original psychedelia - or even the comeback the genre made in the late 80s and early 1990s. Everything that was old is new again, and a band like AC have done a great job repackaging the content.

Oh, and can I get a link to the round-up thread? Is that the tracks and albums nominations thread?

I meant this - 2007 that was (by Tim)

:)

this is pretty awesome. Thought i was past having to listen to these chufters after Strawb. jam, but the Pitchfork shame continues.

Pitchfork is hilarious. and ridiculous. I don't really trust their reviews for, well, anything. AllMusic is great though.

what a beautiful record. totally worth all the rickrolling and viral shenanigans. the closest analog i hear (besides 'tusk' as mentioned upthread) is later boredoms, especially the euphoric looping of vcn. i have no idea how they make these sounds. i'm curious how sample-based it is, whether along the lines of 'person pitch' or what