Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

Tbh, I wasn't positive that an Animal Collective rarities boxset would immediately get ripped/posted. Guess I misgauged their popularity.

I guess eBay could've told you that as well. Allthough right now it's full of people offering this thing up for insane amounts, but noone seems to bite.

http://www.yooouuutuuube.com/v/?rows=36&cols=36&id=GxhaRgJUMl8&startZoom=1

thanks for posting that video, great video btw!

fyi, the video is for "Summertime Clothes"

Everett True has his 2c on Animal Collective here:

Defending The Indefensible #7: Animal Collective

defend the indefensible: Everett True more like.

that blog post is sub-ILM snrub-ILM jeez, he gives every impression (always has) of being unable to think his way out of a wet paper-mache box, blind to his utter corniness and conformity. Not for the first time unable to tell the difference between 3 bands connected only by appearing in the same press sentence of which the difference is... one sounds completely fucking different to the others. Hello??

He probably thinks he's genuinely railing against the mainstream, that's what's so hilarious. He's behaving completely to type.

The type being "Indie lover conspicuous in dislike of popular band gaining popularity and critical praise whilst still keeping a modicum of cred intact" other bands in this series: Nirvana, Radiohead.

I'm not even convinced he has heard the album though, you could cut and paste someone else in there and it would make very little difference as he hardly even seems to mention anything musically specific, really.

I love the atlas sound track "walkabout" with panda bear.
great summer vibe.

I mean it he even said "god Panda Bear's vocals are so transparently faux-weird" I'd think, ok he's listened, and it bugs him. That would be fair enough but no it's just pure teenage old-man autopilot posturing. Sad as fuck.

i hate being the dick who likes the original, but the atlas sound thing is like one eighth as good as what am i going to do by the dovers. that group have been torn to shreds in the past few years.

he didn't really "defend" them did he

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ah, I don't know that track. I'll check it out.

Pile on the Defensible more like

ah, I don't know that track. I'll check it out.

it's so great! you can get everything they did on a ten inch, two cuts of which made nuggets i think. kings of leon are like an affordable dovers tribute group for bar mitzvahs.

err, I don't see anything like kings of leon in the atlas sound track (but I haven't heard anything by them since their first album)

i haven't heard them since then. they just seemed to be going for a kind of breeze rural garage schtick that the dovers emanate. the atlas sound thing is a little loop of the dovers song, and dovers songs in general are forebears to the reinvention of recorded music pioneered by K O L.

You really had me interested in Dovers until you compared them to Kings of Leon.

lol

"You guys should check them out! They mix mid-period Can with the Sonics, filtered through No New York skronk. They also sound kinda like Bloc Party."

lol x2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rclhP1a_o0o

ha ha.
the only space kings of leon take up in my head is just in this horrified oh-man-you-guys-ripped-off-this kinda way.

xp images of melancholic pensive teenagers are not band's own

why is that girl bouncing from side to side, shit is like a ZS gif imo

Pitchfork: Why did you decide to go with the name Universal Studios Florida?

KH: It's based on memories of vacations-- like an idealized version of childhood nostalgia. We wanted to make nostalgia-driven music.

Can we fucking dead the manchild Peter Pan syndrome aesthetic already. It's a dead end. No hope.

I wonder if Fort Thunder regrets spawning like 700 bands called ALF AND THE MELMACS

ha i kind of agree w/ whiney's typical vitriol here -- its like, that narrative could work for maybe one group, but trying to tie an entire 'genre' to this pretty one dimensional narrative is totes obnoxious

i agree with this.. Universal Studios Florida and Ducktails are probably the most cringe-worthy names i've heard in recent memory though i'm not sure how much this aesthetic informs the actual music. i haven't heard USF but i really hope they don't sound like the intro to Wild & Crazy Kids

Pitchfork: Why did you decide to go with the name Universal Studios Florida?

KH: It's based on memories of vacations-- like an idealized version of childhood nostalgia. We wanted to make nostalgia-driven music.

lolz at first glance I just thought this was a parody of an Animal Collective interview. do bands really say stupid shit like this...?

*shakes head*

i think the names of these bands is pretty much a minor fucking issue compared to how slight and forgettable their music is.

otm

I mean, AC interviews circa '03-'04 would ALWAYS say that they were trying to get back to childhood--thus the faux-naivete of the name "Animal Collective."

Personally, I thought it was a great aesthetic for ONE band, but this shit is getting worse than every sub-Elbow clown band using the word "technocracy" in their press release because they like Kid A.

I mean, this gets into a bigger issue.

Like every time I go to the Whitney biennial, every single artist my age and younger can't seem to make art that doesn't have Nes controllers or Captain Planet in it.

It's fucking embarrassing to think this is how my generation is squandering their talents

"Life is good, but GO-BOTS, man. Go-Bots."

yesterday's trash is tomorrow's gold

whiney have you never listened to early K records stuff?

good point!

that shit is awful too imo

i mean back in the day i had to deal with a band called Bunnygrunt

you need to man up

and i'm on your side--i totally can't stand this

i still fuck with "brother sport" - that's all i wanted to say.

all true,

but at least K records was a chance for girls to wear cute dresses and bake vegan cupcakes and play scattergories, not a boys club trying to "turn the pop culture ephemera of our youth into a spiritual plane"

somehow early k records stuff is more defensible

it's like we're all disillusioned dr spock babies desperately trying to avoid our professional parents' high-achieving, emotionally distant fate so we try to get back to the space before we were aware of that by means of a regression legitimized by the false gravitas imparted by some half-baked post-modernist pastiche aesthetic. maybe.

WHAT IS k?

k: a conspiracy of gravediggers, spies, swim instructors and international pop stars. There are hangmen and there are saints. k as a label has released cassettes, phonograph records and compact discs documenting the audio works of over 150 artists. The main focus k of has been artists working in and around Olympia, Washington, where k is based, but has included comrades from across the U.S.A. and as far away as Japan, Scotland, Australia, Canada, Germany and England. Yes, k explodes the teenage underground into passionate revolt against the corporate ogre world-wide.

Colleagues in the International Pop Underground collide at the k vanishing point. The sounds cross back and forth through a number of genres, some known and some less so: punk, hip hop, atom-powered folk-pop, haunted garage, restless singer songwright, epic soul shock, noise exp., blurred-eye visionary psychedelica, roadhouse mod and the silent film soundtracks composed by Timothy Brock, as performed by the Olympia Chamber Orchestra.

In describing k to a friend, you might say: Hit the streets to the motorbike beat of the cranked and crush crashpop. Raise the standard and hail: a revolution come and gone behind your eyes. Blood and sand and sidewalk. Radio blast the punk pop implosion that is the new breed: a bee in your bonnet, love in a goldfish bowl, zombie rockin behind the iron curtain. Hey, love rocker, pull on your slacks and Mexican army boots, get ready for some sonic pogo action. Jazz the glass, here they come, screaming and clawing, scooters and dune buggies roaring. Bless. Can you dig it? k Collaborators. King loser and teenage underground. Screech and saw. Buzz. Cut. Spin. Slice. Crush. Squirt. Sweaty basement rock and rule. A crown of barbed wire for your hooded throne. Lose it on the ball and chain.

Hey, gravedigger: ignite.

calvin always talked a good game but damn I wish K put out better stuff than they do

yup

remember K's rap album?

the beats weren't happening, that's for sure

BOOM

we're all disillusioned dr spock babies desperately trying to avoid our professional parents' high-achieving, emotionally distant fate

OTM. its interesting to me that this is a distinctly post-Boomer generation thing. The Boomers' hated their parents and were possibly the first (last?) generation not to entertain some glassy-eyed nostalgia for the world and pop culture of 20 yrs prior... as the junk culture of America has accumulated over subsequent decades, it just seems sillier and sillier for each generation to pine for the crap of some non-existent idealized childhood (esp one as designed by some faceless corporate juggernaut and manufactured by hapless third world wage slaves)