Merriweather Post Pavillion (2009)
Tracklist
1."In the Flowers"
2."My Girls"
3."Also Frightened"
4."Summertime Clothes"
5."Daily Routine"
6."Bluish"
7."Guys Eyes"
8."Taste"
9."Lion In a Coma" (Animal Collective, Lathozi Mpahleni Manquin Madosini)
10."No More Runnin"
11."Brother Sport"
Merriweather Post Pavilion is the eighth studio album by Animal Collective.
With their constantly evolving sonic identity, in-your-face vocal mannerisms, and open-ended ideas about what their music might "mean," Animal Collective seem designed to inspire obsessive fans and vociferous detractors in equal measure. Merriweather Post Pavilion, their latest full-length, was anticipated to an almost ridiculous degree and soon became one of the best albums of 2009.
Animal Collective's two vocalists, Dave Portner (aka Avey Tare) and Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear), have never sounded better together, and the way their styles complement each other is the story of the album. On the one hand you have Panda's straightforward melodies, his fuzzy, head-in-the-clouds dreaminess, and his instinctual trawl through pop music history. The tracks that favor his songwriting typically have an underlying sense of drone, with everything moving forward along a line in relation to some subliminal center: They begin, then build, expand, and contract. Tare, meanwhile, tends to work within a more classic pop structure, with clear bridges and snappy choruses, greater harmonic development, and a sharper lyrical focus.
This album, which finds Animal Collective completely owning their unique sound, feels like the crucial next step in that conversation. What they've constructed here is a new kind of electronic pop-- one which is machine-generated and revels in technology but is also deeply human, never drawing too much attention to its digital nature. It's of the moment and feels new, but it's also striking in its immediacy and comes across as friendly and welcoming.(Pitchfork)
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