Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

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

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Almonds are noize?

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oh jesus that is awesome

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

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i have seen god and he is an almond

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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

http://cdn-www.answerbag.com/images/answers/97743/166275/tmb_you_got_it_dude.jpg

God knows I hate to be a tease, but this record is just sublime!

i can't belive pfork is linking to the leaked track...

what part of that don't you get?

don't they usually only show sanctioned things in that section?

i dont know. it seems like they make it pretty clear that they just got the link from somewhere else. and it's not like they're hosting it or anything.

Animal Collective gone electronic.
wake up - Trance lovers

((((((d-_-b)))))

brothersport sounds quite good...i think if it was my first time hearing it i'd be floored.
that being said, having heard the NPR session or whatever it was about 50 times already, I think i prefer that one :(

Has this leaked already? I keep reading on several blogs and music sites of how 'my girls' and 'bluish' are some of AC's best work.

just a few songs...the ones you mentioned and the one i mentioned above

Could somebody post a link to the album version of "Brothersport"? Anybody?

psst...
http://hypem.com/search/brothersport/1/

http://grizzly-bear.net/blog/

Could somebody post a link to the album version of 'my girls' and 'bluish'? Anybody?

also, after hearing it once, i would say that bro sport is the song that probably improved the least from live to record because it utilized their live energy the most.
also this rip from the french podcast or whatever is pretty bad quality. think it will sound better on the record.

thank you thank you thank you

i heard an excerpt from the album version of "also frightened".
the track is amazing.
sounds like a track that could be from "piper at the gates of dawn", on;y with the AC touch.

on first listen, the npr live version trumps the studio version by a lot - studio version's too clean, not overwhelming enough somehow. of course, i'm listening to this on Windows Media Player right now - car speakers might make this sound different...

still a great, great song tho

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

― kamerad, Thursday, November 6, 2008 4:05 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

i was actually toying with this, because there's a five pm train (with inauguration lasting til four, apparently, but i don't know what portion of the proceedings that covers) that would theoretically cruise you right back into the city in time to bowl in and see them play. but i heard whispers that dc is going to be busy on january the twentieth, that transport and getting around might be confusing. it also makes me feel stupid because i'd be leaving something historical to be all muso for the evening, so i'm trying to force myself to go inauguration, if i can make it.

anyway - bro sport is the most straightforward transition from live to record - things like my girls are way different, different parts, big badu beats rather than the kind of ephemeral (sorry, i am not a journalist) synth noise of the live versions.

mizzell and beatrix OTM. i said something similar upthread

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

I remember posting it at one point on nb, almost said something last month when I saw an interview w/ the album cover artist talking about it like he'd painted the ceiling of the sistine chapel

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/thelatestworks35cn.gif

I downloaded it from some azn dude who had a site of optical illusions he'd developed, I remember opening it in a graphics program to make sure it wasn't an animated gif

I just want to be the first to say that "Summertime Clothes" is gonna be the jam to pwn all jams on this album.

is "Brother Sport" nu-balearic?

maybe this album will actually have some cohesion (aka music theory) that the other albums so much lacked. not that I have anything against avant-garde or experimental music, but I like mine about 60/40 weird/normal. animal collective has been consistently about 90/10 weird(noodling around)/normal.

I am listening to Summertime Clothes right now... I'm halfway through it and I do notice some more for lack of a better term, music theory, but overall it's not very memorable in the same way as I don't play my Future Sounds of London - Lifeforms album very often.

Say what?

I might go to the album playback tomorrow, most likely not as I need the overtime moolah more.

animal collective has been consistently about 90/10 weird(noodling around)/normal.

?! Strawberry Jam was a totally normal indie rock record, it sounded like Deerhunter?!

yeah; i think the first few records are a little frustratingly stop and start, but this does not apply to strawberry jam.

y'oughtta go to the playback, craig, the one i went to was fun. it made me wish that there were evenings with people sitting on chairs listening to records being played even without the fanfare of it being new, or whatever.

most excited about bopping around to my girls and bluish when it comes out. take THAT, summertime clothes. daily routine too.

?! Strawberry Jam was a totally normal indie rock record, it sounded like Deerhunter?!

I'm sorry, but someone has to say it: RONG!

what the hell

i mean it did sound like more normal indie rock but deerhunter nooo