animal collective

i don't get all this fuzz around AC

i've seen a video of cuckoo for cuckoo and this one is ok but the rest is just circus music to me. i find them some qualities but how come they sell so many records ? are hipsters so many ?

please explain what's going on with that band

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

hipsters, dude

theyre just trying to be cool

animal collective is for the children

yeah i hate it. there's maybe 1 good tune, and the rest of the time i'm receding into the back of my head.

Animal Collective are boring, nothing to see here. Only the usual Pitchfork crowd/recovering emo dorks need apply.

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wow no one likes them

Feels and Sung Tongs are both great albums. I've never seen them live but seen videos that look pretty shit, but their albums are fucking sweet.

You're wrong and a grotesquely ugly freak.

i'll be glad to understand then

just explain

i can listen to merzbow or mr bungle's weirdest shit, but i don't "get" AC

my friend played it for me when i was mildly buzzed from smoking pot and drinking and it made me puke in the living room. from that day on i called it the devils music.

my friends like it a lot.. but then i hate my friends. they call it tribal-esque.

Go listen to either of those albums and then make an opinion, because hvaing seen video footgae of them live I didn't really think it was a fair reflection on their albums.

I need to go eat right now so I can't explain at length why they are good, but in short, they have very good melodies and vocal harmonies, combined with decent rhythmical parts which are often vocal too. Plus they have quite a prog feel to their songs in their length and arrangements. It's good stuff. Maybe smoke more weed?!

They have a nice production 'sound' too. Very organic.

I'd never heard of them until now. They're pretty irritating judging from this song. I want to punch their vocalist.

hahahahaha!

If I smoke lots of pot and still don't enjoy AC, should I move on to heroin and give it another go? I'll risk addiction if you promise me I'll find great art while drooling on myself.

not convinced

btw i've checked two or three albums so i've been listening to them a few

Ive seen AC live and it was the most mindblowing show of my life and i was sotally tober

I only listen to Feels and sung tongs but i love both albums, i'm told everything else is shit.

I don't really get the appeal either, but I admit I really like that Panda Bear album that one of the guys did.

  Zephyr_Nova said:

I'd never heard of them until now. They're pretty irritating judging from this song. I want to punch their vocalist.

almost exactly how i feel. except i would also punch the other dude in the front and then take their fucking headgear off.

same thing for panda bear - person pitch

i think this is potheadz music

Everyone adores their upcoming album Strawberry Jam but there is nothing special about it, seriously. I hate indie rock listeners.

same thing for Battles

i think Warp wanted its own AC

i saw the battles live. it was awesome.

i bought the album. not so awesome, but

still 3 tracks very good to come back to.

something similar with AC.

it's like CocoRosie without vocals but on Synthies, and i like it.

you can't get into everything, btw.

edit: plus - i think warp didnt want to copy AC at all. it's just... art is beyond laptop aesthetics these days. go and see who played the fucking reactable live and how. you can't do that with merzbow.

I prefer Sung Tongs and Feels to their earlier noisy stuff. Admittedly, they do provoke many a wtf? on first listening, but these two albums have really grown on me over the last couple years. As they progress their stuff seems to be becoming much catchier (particularly the awesome Panda Bear album). I think they are one of the few acts that actually have a somewhat original sound within the context of current rock/pop/electronic music.

The new Battles album is great as well- much more melodic than I was expecting...