After all these months of listening...I just don't know what to make of the thing. I only heard Panda Bear's Person Pitch, which I like much, much better than this, after Merriweather Post Pavillion...hmm..."My Girls" is going to be stuck in my head for the rest of my life, though.

I think it's great, my girls is a complete stand out but the rest of the albums is solid.

Still album of the year for me...

Same here. MPP is Animal Collective's most polished album to date. It ought to set a new standard for modern pop music if you ask me.

I downloaded this last week and I can't stop listening to it. Excellent rating from me.

This album totally changed my opinion on these guys. Before I thought they were alright and had a couple albums by them (Feels, SJ, and WC), but MPP is just....wow. Definitely turned them into one of my favorite bands ever.

genius! much easier to listen to than their other albums.

I never had a high opinion of them either. What I heard made them sound like they were trying too hard, so I just dismissed them. Yet something made me want to check out MPP, maybe the fact that I heard it was more accessible and had nice Beach Boys harmonizing or something. I don't even consider myself a Beach Boys fan or anything. Maybe it's because last year I'd heard Panda Bear's album and thought it was better than any Animal Collective stuff I'd heard, so my hopes were higher. So it turns out MPP completely changed my opinion on these guys too. What a great album! I've played it probably 6 times since earlier this year (that's a lot of plays for me). I gave it a "very good" score. It takes a lot for me to call something excellent. Being that I like it so much it would normally inspire me to check out the band's past work...but I honestly don't think I'll like it as much as this. So it's low on my list of priorities.

The opposite happened to me, MPP kinda opened the doors to a lot of other stuff they've done. For example I absolutely love Strawberry Jam now.

Everything before Feels is still a bit hard for me to get into though.

I never realized the album art was an illusion. WTF?