Alright, alright, alright the new Animal Collective album's pretty good... I said it. This album got out of hand overhyped in my head and when the vinyl pre order arrived I got high, lit some candles made some tea ate some ginger cookies turned the lights down low and cued the record while staring at the cover art. I kind of freaked out though cuz I'm a lightweight and the needle is worn on my record player and everything sounded distorted and some of the the choices they made with the clubby bass are unfortunate... plus that song Bluish? You know you were questioning it on first listen. I spent the next two weeks walking around talking about how much better I liked Strawberry Jam and not really giving it a fair chance.
But I'm reformed now, I've ordered a new needle for my record player, listened to the digital download version of the album through my headphones while sober and found quite a bit to like. Another problem I had was that I had listened to the leaked tracks (Brother Sport and My Girls) way too many times, and these songs act as important bookends in the context of the whole album. This realization has sparked a great deal of conflict in me, as I love downloading leaked preview tracks, but don't want to ruin first listens of albums I love. Looks like I've got some serious soul searching to do. In the meantime, here are a few of my favourite songs from AC's discography (in order of most recent to least), including 'Summertime Clothes', which completes the triumvirate of best tracks on Merriweather in my unesteemed opinion.
Summertime Clothes (Merriweather '09)
Street Flash (Water Curses EP '08)
Purple Bottle (Feels '05)
Who Could Win a Rabbit (Sung Tongs'04)
Slippi (Here Comes the Indian '03)
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