lol, baby

haha. I was talking to a bartender about Animal Collective a few weeks ago.

"Do you like 'em?" and all that kinda stuff.

and he kind of half-turns his head and looks at me. He says "YEAH! I LIKE ANIMAL COLLECTIVE.....[long pause].....WHEN I'M ON ACID!"

Whiskey sours taste even worse when they're coming out your nostrils.

I totaly agree! It really takes time to understand it. I founds this new swedish artist called Ecovillage and they sounds abit like animal collective. They have released their debut album called Phoenix Asteroid on Darla Records (US) and Quince Records (JAP). Really good stuff! Sounds very druggy and etheral.

Personally, I love them. Merriweather Post Pavillion is definitely a different sound than Strawberry Jam. Feels is probably my favorite so far, though I adore MPP. I've still yet to listen to their other five older albums, though, so my opinion doesn't mean much. XD

try sung tongs!

I loved Feels and Strawberry Jam, and I really really tried to like Merriweather Post Pavilion, but I just found it incredibly overrated, My Girls off that album is a good song though.

I really like Animal Collective, I think Feels, Strawberry Jam, and MPP are all great albums. But I think Sung Tongs is so overrated I have listened to it about 6 times and nothing has grabbed in any way.

I'm so in love with Merriweather Post Pavilion. Best album of the year by MILES. The first song is very Arcade Fire ala Funeral with the massive tone shift in the middle of the song and it's epic sound. The beginning of the album sounds like birth or something, something abstract like that. And My Girls is brilliant.

I must say that, upon reflection after having listened to much of the A C oeuvre, I find the "happy-hippy-on-acid-and-pot", er, "vibe" of these folks a little too cloying for my tastes. It is impossible to remain THIS friggin' happy, even on copious amounts of pot. Have any of these people had a close friend, relative or pet die? Have they ever hated life, even for a moment? Or do they simply reject this other aspect of experience in favour of the protracted state of ecstacy in which they seem to exist? "A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down" may be a useful idiom to know, but come on!?!?! They need to produce a few darker songs, grow up a little, come out of their drug-dazed never-never land, if only to counterbalance the manic happiness of their records. Then I'll decide whether I like them or not. (Which is not to say that they're untalented, of course, but merely that such unremitting cutesiness is a bit tough to take.)

they like happy music.