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By: A Rational Conversation Between Two Adults: Is Animal Collective The Great Band Of Our Time? (Part Two) | Uristocrat

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:17:00 +0000

[...] jump, read the condensed conversation between Ducker and Matthew Perpetua of Fluxblog, who recently posted about his mixed history with Animal Collective. And if you haven’t done so already, check out [...]

By: maura

maura — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:08:37 +0000

the fanboying in here is amazing. (sorry matthew, i had to say it.)

By: Brendan

Brendan — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:24:59 +0000

Strawberry Jam is a diseased record, for sure, but so is The White Album or Pinkerton or so many other records that are both critical and fan favorites. One reason Animal Collective has amassed so many fervent fans is that they digress, they adapt to different instruments, different line ups, different times. Their whole process of doing things consciously defies the typically linear plot of an indie band, and so as a critic to impose a plot on them is sort of pointless. Few would argue that, say, “Visiting Friends” isn’t in some way indulgent, but part of what they do is demand that the listener take a band seriously enough to go with them to uncharted territory, where they weren’t expecting or maybe even hoping to go. And any music fan has been there with a favorite band before.

By: Matthew Perpetua

Matthew Perpetua — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:56:56 +0000

Yes, that’s also a song on Merriweather Post Pavilion. It’s a good one. It’s not really one of my favorites though, I guess. I kinda favor the Avey numbers on this one.

By: billy

billy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:11:35 +0000

what about ‘my girls’? it’s got such a killer chorus, it could be a rap single. Imagine it coming out of a large automobile, all bass woof and chanting.

By: marc

marc — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:00:45 +0000

Yo Chuck…think for yourself.

Strawberry Jam is an amazing album. Merriweather is just as amazing if not better.

How the author of this blog finds distinction between the two albums and then chooses to trash ‘Strawberry’… simply boggles my mind.

By: jay

jay — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:14:23 +0000

I still get a lot out of Sung Tongs if I ever listen to it and pay enough attention to enjoy “Visiting Friends.” And I thought Feels was a great album for a couple of months when it came out but I can’t even listen to it anymore. My problem with AC is that a lot of times their best peices come in some of the songs that also happen to be marred with their worst habits, so it’s hard for me to enjoy a whole song. At least, listening back, that’s my problem with Feels and to some extent Strawberry Jam. At least “Peacebone.” The rest of that album is alternately just sort of annoying and sort of boring.

I’ll admit to not having bothered with the new album yet, but my high school graduation was at Merriweather Post Pavilion, along with a bunch of great concerts when I was a teenager. So I kind of want to check it out, just because of the name.

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:43:38 +0000

Why would you feel weird for that? Strawberry Jam is amazing, just because it isn’t the writers cup of tea doesn’t mean it isn’t quality. That being said I agree that MPP is their best work to date.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:53:52 +0000

Now I feel kinda weird for calling “Strawberry Jam” my favourite album of 2007….oh well, I still loved it.
The new one might just be better though.

By: …in which McNutt finally gives in to Animal Collective « McNutt Against the Music

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:35:51 +0000

[...] is the best album of 2009 and concludes: “Looks like it. Sounds like it too…” And Matthew Perpetua over at Fluxblog, whose views on the Collective are closer to mine, wrote that the record “is everything good [...]