Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

didn't like Strawberry Jam but am liking the production talk

I like the emphasis on low-end - their show last year had the rumble of a rap concert. Maybe it was just the sound in the Fillmore but it was eerily intense. Combined with the repetiveness of the Strawberry Jam songs and the jammy nature of the songs, it was kind of an endless bass stomp (in a good way). I'm excited to hear the new one.

They’ve booked two weeks to mix 12 songs and they want to experiment as much as possible.

you think?

When I saw them in dublin the low-end was unbearable, it was great! But there was so many people talking really loudly around me (the very front) about having a gang gang dance t-shirt and "being into good music", then they complained that this concert was crap because the sound guy hadn't a clue!

"walk around with you" song = Summertime Clothes

The videos from the midi fest are pretty good too.

http://myanimalhome.net/images/invite.jpg

am probably gonna go to this, having never been to a listening party before. i wonder whether it will be cheese and wine or hushing and reverence.

that clip above's so amazing.

http://www.uncut.co.uk/blog/index.php?blog=6&p=992&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#more992

guess I'm the only one who'd like MPP to sound less like Person Pitch

Avey is so hot in that

i remember the first time i saw them being really alarmed that he could actually do that larynx-scream on-cue, not just in the frazzled after-eight-hours-of-singing-twist-and-shout way.

http://myanimalhome.net/images/merriweatherCVR.jpg

http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badassbuddy_com-slowburner.gif

guess I'm the only one who'd like MPP to sound less like Person Pitch

― sonderangerbot, Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:10 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

ur not btw

i thought the panda songs on strawberry jam that sounded like more refined versions of person pitch songs were great but i wouldn't want all of mpp to sound like that necessarily

is that the cover? it's moving.

i will be mega disappointed if this ends up sounding like person pitch

also that cover is neat and all but i was hoping it would look like the pic in the original post which is gorgeous and actually made me really excited about the music!

yeah i agree

Really? I was desperately hoping that wouldn't be the cover, it's got a kind of wannabe Dave McKean/earnest Tori Amos "goth"-lite ickiness to it. To me, anyway.

I'm expecting something closer to the Panda tracks on Strawberry Jam perhaps crossed with "Safer".

Did I miss something? Is Panda Bear taking the driver's seat this time around?

Personally I'm hoping it takes off from Strawberry Jam. I liked the direction they were going.

the last 2 clips posted totally rule.

"Did I miss something? Is Panda Bear taking the driver's seat this time around?"

Not necessarily, but the tenor of a lot of the live sets has been rather similar to, say, "No #1", for long stretches. Less aggressive and herky-jerky than most of the Avey stuff on Strawberry Jam.

I don't see how anyone could possibly choose the pic in the original post over the fabulous moving one.

Akiyoshi Kitaoka

Not necessarily, but the tenor of a lot of the live sets has been rather similar to, say, "No #1", for long stretches. Less aggressive and herky-jerky than most of the Avey stuff on Strawberry Jam.

Ah, I see. I've been skipping all the live youtubes and mp3s; waiting for the album itself. I like #1, though it took time to grow on me. If they made a whole album that sounded like Person Pitch or the second half of Feels, it wouldn't be the end of the world... but it'd be less interesting to me. I've yet to hear AC do that kind of song many times in a row and keep it interesting from beginning to end. I feel like there's nothing to Person Pitch as a whole that the long version of "Bros" doesn't execute all by itself. And "Banshee Beat" aside, I think most the second half of Feels is self-indulgent.

I was just listening to that song Suspended in Gaffa by Kate Bush and the background vocal stuff she does in it sounds so much like Animal Collective it's insane.

Listen again here:

Wait, is the stoner leaf illusion the actual cover? Crossing fingers, for real.

I don't see how anyone could possibly choose the pic in the original post over the fabulous moving one.

because of colours : D

The blogotheque clips have been floating around forever and I think they predate Strawberry Jam, or its release at least. One of them is Another White Singer from Manatee Danse.

Someone posted Kate Bush on this thread! Oh my god, you've made my night. Thanks.

Wait, is the stoner leaf illusion the actual cover? Crossing fingers, for real.

― z "R" s (Z S), Thursday, October 23, 2008 3:57 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

Yes, if the local Seattle "alternative" weekly paper is to be believed, (and I saw it before this thread was revived) the moving leaf thing is the real sleeve.

Sorry to be too "dudeish",but I think,potentially,that this album might RULE.

I mean...I hope it rules.I think that it could.

holy living shit @ "Brother Sport" live on NPR

if the whole album is this awesome i may be able to just drop everything else and listen to AC all day and all night

i went and heard this tonight, at the listening partly they sweetly and freely arranged. it's a great record: i can't wait to get to know it, hear it on headphones etc. it's got the continuity and otherness of records like loveless, and such a different, full, bold sound - really new-amerykah-beat-driven, and really electrically synthesised and busy. it seems like a lot of the kind of manic eccentricities of ac are slightly sidelined while they do something just straightahead new and strong.

oh man i'm really jealous. can't wait to hear this

OT: does anyone have the new Fredrik record Na Na Ni? I've listened to almost all of the tracks either on their myspace or last.fm, but I cannot find it anywhere (I think it was released today, the 28th). "Alina's Place" is one of the best songs of the year, IMO. anyway, if anyone could help me out, that'd be great :)

hahaha thought you guys were totally kidding about the cover art, that thing was posted on noizeboard a couple years ago but the original image disappeared

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Wednesday, April 12, 2006 1:23 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Almonds are noize?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, April 12, 2006 1:28 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oh jesus that is awesome

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, April 12, 2006 1:31 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Those almonds are better than acid. At least at this point in my life.

― trees (treesessplode), Monday, April 17, 2006 4:49 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i have seen god and he is an almond

― latebloomer's jazz oddysey brought to you by kellog's corn flakes (latebloomer), Monday, April 17, 2006 4:51 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

whoah, that is cool. how do i shot pulsating gif image?

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, April 17, 2006 7:58 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

the postcard they had at the listening party doesn't move as much for me as the internet image. also, the record is crazy and so awesome. i can't belive the quote iheard by them saying they didn't know if it would sound electronic to people or not. it sounds completely electronic.

mizzell, it was a printing issue. that's why it didn't move.

that's funny.

playing nyc the day the lp drops, touring and stuff.

dammit/same day as inauguration roadtrippin' possibilities.

doors open at 8 -- how far is dc from nyc?

one song from this has leaked. it is good.

production is so clear like that gang gang dance album. this is a good trend.

Clear production would be a BIG bonus for me from them.

I am equally against clear production for AC ... I prefer it when they sound weird and mysterious.

site:rapidshare.com merriweather post pavilion

nothing

let me know when this leaks