Ok Here is goes(Also this is my favorite album so it would be great if you'd listen to the whole thing thank you)
Also this is nitpicking but the picture in the OP is Merriweather Post Pavillion era Animal Collective which doesn't include Josh "Deakin" Dibs in the lineup, who was a part of the band during the making of this particular album ok bye
Animal Collective are an Experimental Neo-Psychedelia band formed in Baltimore, Maryland in 1999. They consist of David "Avey Tare" Portner, Noah "Panda Bear" Lennox, Josh "Deakin" Dibb and Brian "Geologist" Weitz. All 4 members were childhood friends, after first meeting in Elementary school They played in many guitar bands in high school, but upon discovering bands like Silver Apples, Sun City Girls and Can, they started to develop the more experimental sound that they would later come to be known by. Their first record Spirit They've Gone, Spirit They've Vanished, was released in 2000, and was originally intended to be an Avey Tare solo record, until he brought in Panda Bear to record percussion, and was so amazed by his performance, that he credited the album to the both of them. They released 3 more records, while building up there reputation in the New York Noise scene, until in 2004 they released Sung Tongs , to critical acclaim. Following the release of Sung Tongs, they recorded and released Feels, which garnered them more critical acclaim, a larger fanbase, and a recording contract with Domino Records. In 2007, after Panda Bear came back from recording his album Person Pitch, they set out to record their most ambitious work to date, Strawberry Jam
In Person Pitch, Panda Bear started experimenting with samplers, and created a more electronic sound than anything he'd done before. Upon returning to Animal Collective, he brought his new found experiance with him, and the band decided they would incorporate it into the record.
Peaceone, the first song on the record, starts the album out on a cheery note. Avey sings abstract lyrics based around clever wordplay, while still maintaining to keep the listener interested. In thechorus, you can hear him switching from Falsetto, to his signiture screaming. The music itself sounds like a broken Gameboy, samples flying everywhere, and giving the song a chaotic atmosphere.
There sounds are continued in the next song, Unsolved Mysteries, where they bring the sound into a darker atmosphere, and Avey switches from singing upbeat lyrics, to more dark stories, untill finally colliding in an intense sound collage.
Chores, is the first Panda Bear fronted song on the record. Since their last album, Panda was married, and since has had a kid. Chores is about all the responsibilities that he feels he's taken, and how he wants nothing more than to relax
"I only want the time
To do one thing that I like
I want to get so stoned
And take a walk out in the light drizzle
At the end of the day
When there's no one watching"
The song then starts to drone out into the albums climax, For Reverend Green
Here, Avey decides to go all out, and creates a melodramatic masterpeice, where you can hear more in the his vocals, than you can in the lyrics, He conveys the emotion through his singing, and really propels the song forward.
A running child's bloody with burning knees
A careless child's money flew in the trees
A camping child's happy with winter's freeze
A lucky child don't know how lucky she is
These twisted lyrics continue spiraling up, untill the song finally reaches its climax, of Avey screaming "For Reverend Green", untill finally launching back into the chorus.
This pace is continued for eh rest of the record, such as in #1, when the album reaches its darkest point, or Derek, when Panda confesses things to a dog he had when he was little. Animal Collective truly reached their peak with this record, you owe yourself to give it a listen.
Ah, somehow missed this, time to promote my favourite Northern Irish instrumental post-rock band's self titled debut album, And So I Watch You From Afar. The band consisted of 4 members at the time of this album,Rory Friers, Tony Wright, Jonathan Adger and Chris Wee, though Wright has since left the band on good terms. I've also been lucky enough to see these guys live and they're great, so if they're in you're area I recommend seeing them. I am a big fan of Strawberry Jam however, my favourite AnCo album, best of luck to MrFrogger also, I'm not expecting to win with this album, but I would extremely grateful if people gave it a listen. That'd be cool.
Someone has already created a YouTube playlist for those who want to hear it.
I'm not really sure how I'd begin to describe my love for this album, I'm usually terrible at things like this so here are some tracks I love (That said I love them all, these are ones I just feel people may enjoy more).
I'm just going to let the music do the talking, so yeah, hopefully someone out there gets as much enjoyment as I do out of this album. _________________
I voted for Strawberry Jam. And So I Watch You From Afar was a nice discovery which has integrated my '09 chart following Patman's nomination, and I'll definitely come back to it, I suspect it will grow up. On the other hand, I really like that AnCo album very much, it gets the edge on ASIWYFA.
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Glad you enjoyed it!
