Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

i have never really got into this band (i like 2 or 3 songs by them) and havent listened to an album of thiers all the way thru.

cheers for that insight.

on a slightly more serious note. Ive been a massive AC fan from day one but after (actually, during) sung tongs they got really twee and annoying. On the other hand, Ive seen them play two amazing live shows in the post feels period and I thought the panda bear album was great. Will this album make me want to rip it off the CD (which i never actually done for feels)?

yes it will

as a side note, what do you think of this semi-serius quote on hipster runoff
I think the music reviews of Merriweather Post Pavvy will probably be ‘the last great music reviews’ of all time.

sorry:

I think the music reviews of Merriweather Post Pavvy will probably be ‘the last great music reviews’ of all time.

or a deluge of post-pfork staffers wanking out portfolio pieces to send to the wire

merriweather post pavvy

or a deluge of post-pfork staffers wanking out portfolio pieces to send to the wire

great material

okay can i just say that "brothersport" is A++++++++++++

I don't care if this ruins my credibility together forever.

the album version of "lion in a coma" is v v crap compared to the live version

Is it in 9/8 time? I tried to count it out and it seems to work right up to the point where they start singing and ruin everything. Though I like the line "something something something something MY BEDROOM!!!!"

the biggest diff is he sings it up an octave live and it sounds much more urgent and dramatic, whereas the album one is down the octave and just seems so flat. it's one of the few tracks where the studio seems to have sucked the colour out of it rather than made it more vivid.

who did that hilarious water curses review that rattled out a load of first year literary theory and quoted some bullshit PHD dissertation piece about gender and race issues in new weird? or was it a different record/band ? I feel its particularly fitting

i should really listen to the record before any more cussing

I love "brothersport" so much I want to take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.

who did that hilarious water curses review that rattled out a load of first year literary theory and quoted some bullshit PHD dissertation piece about gender and race issues in new weird?

I believe you are referring to this.

that Water Curses review was on Dusted, but it seems to have vanished from the site. http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:Xu4EnV5jOQkJ:www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4276+dusted+water+curses&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk Pretty great.

I saw them a couple of nights ago and it was totally awesome, seemed like every song was better than the last. And they played Banshee Beat, Winters Love and Slippi, wahey.

oops, beaten to it.

Reading that thing never gets boring.

"the fiscal cross"

What would a "fiscal cross" even look like?

Someone does the obvious and mashes up "My Girls" and "Your Love"

isnt that a lyndyhop move?

When the drums kick in on "In The Flowers" it sounds like Thor playing a carousel tune.

"something something something something MY BEDROOM!!!!"

aka all our autobiographies.

hipster runoff is so clearly the people theyre making fun of and its funny and insightful and i just have a soft soft

― ice cr?m

soft soft?

lol "soft spot"

"...the perennial problem with electronics-based gigs: that watching three guys twiddle knobs (stop the sniggering back there) for 90 minutes isn’t the most engrossing experience in the world"

http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2009/01/animal-collective-koko-london-12012009/

thats why im not sure i wanna see them live

"I'm only playing this old-fashioned thing cause it is so interesting to look at."
http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/wp-content/images/2009/01/ac3.jpg

in 2009, electronic instruments could be also referred as old-fashioned

http://pranevicius.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/t1_n189_a1206_reactable2.gif

"...the perennial problem with electronics-based gigs: that watching three guys twiddle knobs (stop the sniggering back there) for 90 minutes isn’t the most engrossing experience in the world"

this still bothers people? laptop shows are fine if you like the music.

New York's all right if you like saxophones.

i was at that show reviewed just up there and it was pretty dope

(knob twiddling isnt really a big deal for me tho)

http://www.nowtoronto.com/music/discs.cfm?content=166771

Mr. Dare-To-Be-Different sez "none of these tracks are as rump-shakin' as Grass" and that "Lion In A Coma" is the best track.

'definitely an album for the ipod generation'??

Thank you for the Rough Trade Bonus CD mix, t_g. I had never heard any of those songs, and it's really awesome. It's not purchase-able anywhere, right?

Saw these folks last night - what's the song that is basically just Panda Bear singing with pretty much only what sounds like a looped guitar track from the Field for company? Also there was a storming boofta-boofta GAS-like song that was awesome. Maybe these was just jammings though.

I couldn't tell you the songs based on your descriptions but here's the setlist from last night.

Blue Sky
My Girls
Daily Routine
Also Frightened
Summertime Clothes
Slippi
Lion In A Coma
Guys Eyes
Fireworks
Brother Sport

Encore
Winter's Love
Leaf House

Panda Bear song - this?

OK, I'm late to this party (just in time for the kneejerk backlash, or a little late for that too, based on the a cursory readthrough of this fine thread) but I just started listening to this record and I don't want to stop. It is exquisitely-honed artifice, like a Koons sculpture or Zoloft-induced elation, or something. I'll leave the critiquing to you critics, whilst I bliss out to this wonderful album on my headphones some more.

^ X!

pillbox that is the best argument i've heard yet for the enjoyment of this album.

why thank you.

Zoloft-induced elation

I read this as 'Zoloft-induced erection' and thought 'no thank you.'

Actually, Ned, decreased sex-drive and/or erectile dysfunction are unfortunate side-effects of Zoloft consumption, so a "Zoloft-induced erection" would be quite absurd, if not paradoxical.

..which led me to conjure the phrase "Zoloft boner"

Merriweather Post Pavillion gives me a Zoloft boner. (OK, now I will shut up).

Mizzell, thanks a lot for the set list. Just checked and the Field-ish Panda Bear song was 'Daily Routine'. That guitar-ish sample (from about 3.30 into that song on MPP) was turned right up and each hit set up this gorgeous bunch of ripples after it. Really great.

(thanks too Number None - that's a pretty song!)

yeah, I don't get all the hate for "Daily Routine." I like the shifting dynamics of the album, & the schizoid nature of it definitely warrants the early-M. Rev comparisons A/C always get: From madcap bubblegum one minute to zoned-out drones the next. Fine by me.

"Daily Routine" doesn't seem particularly more difficult than "Also Frightened", "Guys Eyes" and "Taste", all of which strike me as equally as approachable as or more approachable then the majority of their recorded music prior to this album.

Also I like its loping waltz rhythm.