Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

Mr. Que: I'll gladly take it on myself to create that box set for you! It will cost you dearly though. $92 isn't gonna cut it.

The thing is, tho, I like MPP. But this boxset looks like everything I dislike about AC. I'm not just denouncing them in broad terms. I'm saying that they need to shy away from releasing their unfinished live crap and work harder at teh tunez.

F2. Who Could Win a Rabbit
F3. Mouth Wooed Her
F4. Covered in Frogs

B1. Pumpkin Gets a Snakebite
B2. Pumpkins Hallucination
B3. Pumpkins Funeral

Looks like a winner!

"Fans of the bands recent work may be surprised by the cacophony at times, but peel away the layers of sound and the essential compositional and performative brilliance is staring you in the face."

"This might sound to you like it sucks, but trust us. Its performative brilliance is staring you in the face."

I'm not sure: MPP went from brilliant to mediocre to me fast. I'm actually anxious to hear more of the, erhm, 'spontaneous' side of their music-making - like the earlier albums - than the polished sound MPP displays.

xp

The thing is, tho, I like MPP. But this boxset looks like everything I dislike about AC. I'm not just denouncing them in broad terms. I'm saying that they need to shy away from releasing their unfinished live crap and work harder at teh tunez.

I'd rather they spent the rest of their days making handsome box sets if it kept them out of the studio.

hey this only covers till 2003, they've gotta have like 2 more box sets in em by now amirite?

that stuff is pretty widely bootlegged already (maybe not the early showings of the Feels stuff), so perhaps not as much point (laugh if you must) as this one.

As a fairly obsessive fan, I'm glad this sold out before I knew about it, because seeing it available when I really don't have the money would've been plain annoying.

Kinda think animal collective's unreleased crap and live etc.s are their best work fyi

I don't know how i feel about what I assume is a pun on "crack rocks"

So we're saying this 1000 copy only release is of interest to only hardcore fans then?

I don't know. Are we?

I don't know how i feel about what I assume is a pun on "crack rocks"

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, May 12, 2009 6:20 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

i thought it was a pun on animal crackers

god what a boring band

"After almost three years of planning Catsup Plate is proud to announce the release of Animal Crack Box...

... This is a single edition of 1000 copies, with no digital or CD version planned."

So, what exactly is the point in planning a 3 LP box set for three years, having it be hyped over and over the past few months, only for it to sell out in less than 24 hours -- before fans who are interested, but not obsessively online all the time, can purchase it?

so they can charge $92 for some remixes of Panda Bear flushing a toilet

So, what exactly is the point in planning a 3 LP box set for three years, having it be hyped over and over the past few months, only for it to sell out in less than 24 hours -- before fans who are interested, but not obsessively online all the time, can purchase it?

You don't understand how the internet works do you?

:'(

I'm powerfully behind Curt1s on this one. This strikes me as a genius scam by a very mediocre band.

all of us who love this album (and this band) are total dupes. hope we see the light some day

i hope you do too

Animal Collective has existed at the crossroads of uncompromising experimentalism, classic song structure and ecstatic expressionism

no

The songs veer from the early percussion/feedback wailings to the Campfire Songs style acoustica to wall of sound forest children vocal chanting

aiiii this sounds painful

The sonics are rough in places

what rougher than usual? surely impossible

Fans of the bands recent work may be surprised by the cacophony at times

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

this entire thing is hilarious, from those dumb titles to the dumb press release it's exactly what you'd imagine a parody of animal collective to be

much as i will pedestalise the 'collective, i mean you have to be a bit "special" to even want to listen to hollindagain all the way through more than once, so shelling out for a triple-album of atonal acoustic guitar strumming and inhuman grunts and shrieks is pushing it.

more like animal collection plate

lolololol good one *high fives*

http://pro.corbis.com/images/CB035029.jpg?size=572&uid=%7B1AB17965-090E-428C-828E-32619F75043B%7D

YEAH

Oh man J0rdan... epic high five.

I don't know how i feel about what I assume is a pun on "crack rocks"

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, May 12, 2009 7:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol you really cant think of anything else this could be a pun on

you gonna clue us in, maximillion q punnington?

"animal crack"... hmmmm......

it's still a pun on the word "crack"

yes

which is dumb.

sigh

Tonight on Crossfire.

Ned Ragg Box

i mean, i'm not going to say it's SUPER OFFENSIVE or anything, but i'm always little creeped out by middle class white dudes like AC and Moldy Peaches having hahas over something that's huge problem in lower-income african-american communities.

are you even serious

are you offended by the colloquial phrase "are you on crack?"

i'm just saying it rubs me the wrong way A LITTLE. So not I'm serious enough to get in an argument about it

Also, max, please note that i explicitly said i wasn't offended

not offensive, just a little lame

They also did that album 'Here Comes The Indian' about people sitting at home waiting for their food to be delivered. Don't they even understand the link between takeouts and obesity?

i think there are plenty of more valid reasons to hate on the "animal crack box" whiney

i still don't get the pun :-(

i do like the gary pantery art tho

haha whineford why are you addressing that to me, i just think its lol that you went right for "crack rocks" instead of "animal crackers," ie "you might listen to too much young jeezy if"

make the trap say AYYYYYYY CEEEEEE

"to even want to listen to hollindagain all the way through more than once"

i had to do this to review that when it came out on CD. god, that sucked hard, just thinking about hearing that thing again makes me queasy