Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

haha roxy terroristed you

could 2009 not have waited more than 5 days before landing me with the album which is going to annoy me more than any other this year by indie fuxors babbling on and on and endlessly on about it, culminating in its inevitable top placing in every publication's end-of-year list (jesus we've only just got rid of those fuckers!) despite it being completely unlistenable, directionless, pointless bullshit like everything else animal collective have done

i guess not!!

http://i41.tinypic.com/2k35ag.jpghttp://i41.tinypic.com/2k35ag.jpghttp://i41.tinypic.com/2k35ag.jpg

If lex was ever gonna like an animal collective album, this was probably gonna be the one. Also, it is pretty good.

no

yeah i'm actually interested in this because of its reputed poppiness, despite never having heard more than a couple of animal collective songs in the past

no, yeah, I did get that you don't like it, its just that it has a fairly similar sound palette to lots of things you have liked on this in the past, guess its too indie or whatever.

going to wait for the vinyl to decide whether i love it or just like it. like i said before, great bits, but it bores me around the middlw

i just cant take a band called animal collective seriously -- its like calling a band zoobilee zoo

I really wish I could place a full page ad in the New York Times that says, "This album is good and all but come the fuck on."

this shit is for children grow up people are you bumping muppets soundtracks now nb. muppets are great obv

lex where did you hear this album? at durr when you went last week???

whiney i feel like the ny times is not the proper publication to reach the audience you seek

full page AA ad in p4k

i heard miss kittin and fischerspooner 'emerge' at durrr, ronan, and i reminisced happily about electroclash, and then i left early b/c it turned into justicey type shit :)

xp with Panda Bear's face over the model

going to durr for the electroclash=as believable as reading playboy for the articles

I mean I feel like I can't be like "hey, this record's pretty good" without sounding like one of those dudes rocking back and forth waiting for the 320 FLAC rip because the 160 is bullshit even though they played every day for two weeks.

i went to durrr b/c people i liked were there and it had been a while since i'd been on that scene. the 'lectroclash was a bonus.

Lex I'm surprised you can even talk with your knee so far in your mouth.

ah lex you know I'm just joking...I'm sure I'd enjoy the joyous indie atmosphere at durrr too

better'n the bloodless indie atmosphere of animal collection!!

captain save a middling-ciara-single lets have an equal opportunity for 'its really not that good' mmkay

i mean i agree w/ you but come on now

As a childless, unmarried, overworked hack, slave to the whims of society, I can't help but feel depressed by "My Girls", that beautiful, beautiful song.

It's like listening to a hottie sing about how "looks ain't everything".

He Poos Clouds >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> this

Owen, we know Turangalila is your evil narcissist alter ego.

Nej nej, but he/she is on the payroll.

But what I mean is, "My Girls" is my own personal "Jenny From The Block".

Hahahaha.

I like how Mark Richardson appears to have become Emeritus Professor of all things animal collective at Pitchfork.

i didnt think it was a bad review, but i dont think it would kill them to give an AC review to someone other than the biggest fanboy on earth

They kinda remind me of Ned's reviews of his favourite bands on allmusic.

MPP review: This album, which finds Animal Collective completely owning their unique sound, feels like the crucial next step in that conversation.

SJ review: Here, more than on any record yet, they own that sound completely.

not to be a dick, just noticed this. i haven't heard MPP yet but does it sound like SJ? i thought maybe it didn't.

no

i'm getting the vinyl tomorrow, and im hoping ill like this more than i already do. the good parts are just so great; i want the rest to make it worth it

blaming it on poor qual rip

I might have said this upthread but I was horribly disappointed with SJ when it came out and further discouraged by the glowing reviews it got places that encouraged so many of the (I felt) shitty qualities that pissed me off about it. The one review I really got behind was the one in The Wire where the guy said something like 'At least they've never made the same record twice, right?' which has been basically the principal with which I've been anticipating this one, so whatever about this perfect culmination of their sound bit, Animal Collective do sound like they have way more ideas than any of their Pitchfork pals/indie contemporaries but their career so far has been about drifting in and out of focus even as they move on all the time. I mean, sure there are certain hallmarks of their sound, but their records have had a wildly varying sound to these ears.

Back in the heady days of the rick roll a number of comments were made about the Balearic-ey sound they'd gone with, I'm really confused if this was just part of the rick roll joke or if it was based on what had leaked at that stage, but seriously I thought that would basically give this record a free pass. There are a few things I would have liked, the knob on the vocals to have been turned down a little, maybe, more submersion in the overall song structures, in some songs the vocals sound like they blair out too much. But overall, this is a really good album, I know ILM feels the need to get challopsy about all this white boy indie, like ALL THE TIME. But srsly get over it. This record though, is a pretty good testament to the AC's need for a really good producer, Strawberry Jam might have been more interesting to me if it wasn't so sonically hideous, but it was. Maybe the reason I like this is because of the warm live-sounding synths. God, did I really not sleep tonight/this morning?

Man, I don't know what I'm talking about.

Talking about AC is becoming exciting as the Federal Reserve president's speech about the new monetary policies

the smug dismissive assholes are pretty funny though

ts: talking about ac vs talking about talking about ac

let me just tell you where I'm at with this.

I haven't liked an indie record this much in a couple of years, or any record as much as this in a few months. Hence I haven't read many threads about indie records.

What taints this joyous occasion (about a 0.1% taint, enough to make me stop what I was doing and write this post with two feet on the table) is reading the tedious back and forth that surrounds indie records. honestly it's at times (not all the time) like reading football supporters argue about who's going to win the league on BBC Sports blogs. Albeit with better spelling.

about a 0.1% taint

a taintlet

taintey t. taintgarten

if you take the 0.4 pitchfork gave the black rebel motorcycle club today, and add that to the 9.6 they gave mpp yesterday, you get a perfect 10. maybe they should trade players for the 2010 album season

not that anyone here reads pitchfork

I still don't know how much I like this record yet. It seems to be pushing more towards liking early 10cc though.

i still say disco inferno

di is not a bad reference point; slightly different vocal approach and world outlook though, eh?