Thursday 22 January 2009

Animal Collective



I figure if nothing else this post may get me some traffic. EVERYONE seems to be going a little nutty over the new Animal Collective album "Merriweather Post Pavillion". Now lets hope, cross fingers, pray to God that we can get some tour action down under!

Pitchfork give the new album 9.6 out of ten:

"What they've constructed here is a new kind of electronic pop-- one which is machine-generated and revels in technology but is also deeply human, never drawing too much attention to its digital nature. It's of the moment and feels new, but it's also striking in its immediacy and comes across as friendly and welcoming." LINK

Tunes from the new album are (of course) on myspace, or check out the video for standout track "My Girls" at the Animal Collective site because i can't embed it properly from Vimeo and their label, Domino, have removed it from You Tube which is weird and fricked-in-the-head.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

oh hey ryan, i found the official AC video on hipster runoff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu8Zeol8Gq0

Ryan Egan said...

Cheers Tim, i could only find user-generated content for the video in my initial search. Its such a great video! NPR Music's All Songs Considered had a cool interview podcast with them last week too, but i can't find details online.