Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

I think part of the fun of anticipating an album is knowing that there's a certain day that you can go and get it! I guess no one thinks this way anymore?

Yeah, I miss that! I liked going to the MediaPlay at midnight in college to pick up albums I was anticipating for sure!

I still do it for bands i'm all fanboy about--lol driving to the fucking solomon pond mall at lunch to buy a Pinback CD.

I think part of the fun of anticipating an album is knowing that there's a certain day that you can go and get it! I guess no one thinks this way anymore?

I do, quite often. I am waiting until I get an official copy of this in my hands before listening to it all blissed out in front of the stereo. I did cave and listen to "My Girls" on MySpace though.

I do really miss this, I remember my dad giving me the money to buy the strokes (lol) second album the day it came out and me going to every music shop in town to see where it was cheapest

Wait, how old are you, Plax?

21

Very Panda Bear-centric. (This is a good thing.)

OK, basic question for animal collection fans: how do you tell them apart?

It's interesting that people are saying this is kind of Panda Bear's album even though he's only only got four out of the eleven tracks. I know this thanks to some internet research, i find them difficult to tell apart as well

this album sucks except for my girls.

Dude stick it out for Brothersport, it's worth it, although I have no idea why the f they made it the closing track. Probably because it would stick out like a sore thumb anywhere else on the album, so they tacked it on the end.

Sore thumb of awesomeness.

I think this has been tagged as a "Panda Bear" because it's a record primarily based on looped samples (re: Person Pitch). Although to be fair, I think Avey Tare does quite a bit of this in his band with that dude from Black Dice.

Terrestrial Tones have some kickass stuff

But yeah, its a different type of loopy stuff and granted how similar most of it sounds to Eric Copeland's solo stuff, I'd say that it's more Copelandy

this album sucks except for my girls.

― cutty, Friday, 9 January 2009 14:50 (1 hour ago)

Wouldn't go that far, it's more like "My Girls + ten of her identical and yet somewhat less attractive sisters"

I'd hit "Bluish" and "Summertime Clothes"

part of the fun of anticipating an album is knowing that there's a certain day that you can go and get it! I guess no one thinks this way anymore?

― call all destroyer

Never done this (sad face). Not even for Daydream Nation.

NOT EVEN FOR DAYDREAM NATION!?

my record store forgot to order my vinyl, the fuckers

my girls + brothersport are dope the rest is pretty boring

still think the middle of "in the flowers" is my favorite part. the live version of brothersport was way better than this album cut too imo

xpost Plax

I'm about your age, and likewise couldn't wait for Room on Fire. Still my favorite release of theirs.

A main complaint with Copeland and Terrestrial Tones is that it is all experimentation with no proper songs (i.e. melody).

While the complaint with Person Pitch was that the collage of samples felt flimsy without enough challenging experimentation underneath.

This album is a good compromise between the two.

ppl biting so hard on My Girls and Brothersport, and I really like them, but I actually don't think I've listened to anything else on the album.

Also, now I've only heard Dead Drunk, but it's pretty great and weirdly hooky.

still think the middle of "in the flowers" is my favorite part. the live version of brothersport was way better than this album cut too imo

That middle section is a motherfucker, isn't? Your average indie/Brit pop band would've gone retro and employed some tired-ass wall of sound nicked from Beach Boys/Beatles/Spector. But AC builds it fomr noise, electronica, even some bass music. Gorgeous.

"Bluish" is the best song here, it reminds me of Scritti Politti.

i downloaded a link from the Prince thread a few days ago that was labelled Merriweather Post Pavilion. that pissed me off to know that i had downloaded some bullshit album instead of the killer Prince goodies i expected. this morning i decided to finally unzip the archive to take a listen after reading the comments on this thread. the zip turned out to be labelled as if it were the Animal Collective album but each track was Rick Astley. I have to say, i love it. Each track is exactly the same but somehow i feel like i'll enjoy listening to 12 Rickrolls in a row rather than this new AC album. Thanks internet jokester, you made my morning!

haha!

Roxy needs to add that as a testimonial on the sidebar of her blog.

Is it just me or don't these overhyped albums usually come a lot earlier in a band's career?

Am I the only one who really likes Taste?

really lacks taste maybe

Is it just me or don't these overhyped albums usually come a lot earlier in a band's career?
― Plaxico (I know, right?), Friday, January 9, 2009 8:55 PM

They often come after a band's been around for a few years and has cultivated a loyal audience that grows with each album--then the breakthrough, leading to this kind of fever pitch--see the Flaming Lips' Soft Bulletin. (I have not heard the album yet. Never been an AC fan. But I'm very curious.)

You won't like it.

I like Taste a lot actually. Definitely has the most dub sound out of the bunch.

""Bluish" is the best song here, it reminds me of Scritti Politti."
one of the best yes.
i'd say MBV meets 10cc.

my friend argues that the album reminds him of The Beta Band.
after rejecting that opinion cause i hate Beta Band's latest records, i think he is right at least to some extent.

singing in complex rhythms is often FAIL, especially on this record

I was skeptical after reading all the hype about Merriweather, but today I finished my review of it for The Stranger and I now believe Pitchfork actually underrated it. I know, I'm as shocked as anybody by this turn of events.

The Stranger you say? do u have a link to ur review?

Also i fuk with My Girls except for the "whoooo" yelp

"whoooo" yelp

this album is fine but it's fairly forgettable, I'm perpetually flabbergasted by the hype.

breath into this paper bag

grady is correct as always

I think it just reminds me of fix up look sharp by dizzee rascal

the woooh is amazing.

Then he reread four or five pages of his poem to me. Verbal ostentation was the perverse principle that had guided his revisions: where he had formerly written "blue" he now had "azure," "cerulean," and even "bluish."

I think it just reminds me of fix up look sharp by dizzee rascal

― wilter

which is surely a good thing!

also the low-end on that song