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for those who like MPP: it's an unreleased song that went unfinished during recording...personally Panda Bear has one of his best vocal performances/moments ever in his part during the string section: "what ever made me into a man?/if I had my friends, I wouldn't need a thing"

that was really meandering. I think Jack had a hard time singing or something, it seemed like every note was a struggle. Also, the least Meg could have done was learned to harmonize or something.

IMO Animal Collective are the most idiosyncratic band today that does have followers and will have followers, also Grizzly Bear. personally bands like My Morning Jacket (ESPECIALLY after Evil Urges) or The White Stripes aren't really inventive enough to really stand out in the long run. edit: also, like ive said before, Animal Collective has this positive American vibe backing it that I think is more soulful than the whiney drone of a band like Radiohead...Not to mention Radiohead came up amongst Britpoppers who have all but dissapeared while Animal Collective stand out amongst even intense

oh my god two Nels Clines exist my head might have just exploded wtfffffffff

the only thing that makes me question that list is that he probably didn't flat out lie but just exaggerated what's there or wrote it there arbitrarily ("oh yeah, and I played percussion on that track). also wasn't Poor Places reworked and on record it's only JT, JOR and Glenn? I read that in the Greg Kot book, I believe.

i don't think the album was so sample heavy that he would sample like one snare smack. he does some guitar playing on it, too. I donno, I never got the whole 'Pet Sounds' reference everyone made. Like, to me, Take Pills and Bros are the only ones I could relate back to that album, but songs like I'm Not or Ponytail or Good Girl/Carrots to me are more like hip hop songs with the bass removed or something. for the jaw harp, well, 1. jaw harp is a bitch to play, and 2. the jaw harp sample has like a 9/4 time signature and the whole song is based around that rhythm. it was used with a pretty

nah, there's a small list somewhere of some recognizable samples, but there no actual Beach Boys samples. they're just some of his influences. the only song that might even have a Beach Boys sample would be the less Beach Boys style song like Search for Delicious. from song to song, differing amounts of delay. yeah, but in varying ways. From like Spirit They've Gone-Here Comes the Indian they have a lot of intense vocoder and synth filters, very thin sounding vocals. On Sung Tongs there's a lot of pitch altering that fades throughout and from Feels on it's just been some reverb.

so when is the presale for the Beacon show?

the only recognizable samples they used were the jaw harp in 'Lion in a Coma' and the G and Fmaj7 chords of 'Guys Eyes' are sampled from The Zombies (Leave Me Be), but I dont remember what song. there are some samples that run throughout that are the guys playing- most of the drums I believe are altered beats by Panda Bear, and there are a bunch of other samples that drift throughout that are from other sources, but they're usually extra things and dont pertain to the melody or chords.

to me, Sung Tongs is like two dudes playing acoustic guitars (maybe with weed) in a shed in the winter having a blast (thats what it was), Feels is a summertime jamfest of guitars and drums about love (it was), Strawberry Jam was 4 guys maturing into legitimate songwriters, and Merriweather Post Pavillion is everyone working at the same goal. I can't imagine what their next album will be like but I think it may be the album most similar to their past stuff.

speaking of Theremin... Brian Wilson Picasso (might have founded modern art after 1900, thereby contributing to a continuous change in art and design for 100 years) John Maeda (RISD prez, MIT grad, all around brilliant thinker and innovator on the concept of simplicity)

yeah, but from what I've been told WC has a coke habit. so, that might be the "it" to introduce into your life.

knob twiddling beach boys? :\ I donno. I don't see anything Beach Boysie about this record aside from harmonies. the rest of it is completely contemporary..blips, bass, kick drums, interesting percussion, samples that float in and out. but even the ways they do vocals on this record isn't very similar to the Beach Boys. I mean, if that's what you think, but I just don't see it. Especially on Spirit or Strawberry Jam it would be hard for me to say that they were a Beach Boys influenced band.

well, part of it is that it's a 160 rip, so the quality isn't crystal. I've heard My Girls that leaked early very high quality and it is very clear and the bass is very nice. man, maybe Ive just become a bigger fan over the past few months than I thought, but why aren't people freaking out over this album? I like it a ton more than a lot of recent acclaimed albums and find it incredibly unique.

yeah, I have been listening to this since yesterday. it is awesome.

Wilco Song beats them all

this is the album art 3 tracks have leaked but I cannot find them to link right now, but if you look hard they should be easy to spot. all animal collective fans and non fans I know of are going bonkers waiting for this to leak, and I am among them.

um....I liked Sun Giant? I guess.

oh like that time he said he wouldn't take public financing or that time he said he'd work with his opponent to ensure campaign spending was kept reasonable as to not empower lobbyists and then outspent his opponent tenfold man, honesty. please, get real. This guy is just another president. I don't dislike him or hope he fails, but jeez, what Kool-Aid are you people drinking? The Republicans spent 8 years being unpopular. A Democrat was likely to take office whether they were white, black, or in HRC's case slightly above mentally ill. He's not going to change anything. He's another p

haha, I actually really liked that song. extremely catchy and funny-- not necesarily something I was expecting out of the band at this point, listening to the other songs.

I dont think the record would be different song wise or arrangments, I just think it would have sounded completely different mixwise-- something that actually might have made the record more interesting for other people. JOR mixes records crazy good...There might not be so much special about his records I think, but the mix is so different and good.

wow, was scared for a second...

oh no..I can only guess what one of these new songs is about. yikes.

also, I hate the misconceptions about Sky Blue Sky, like the band went flaccid or something: JT and the boys haven't lost some kind of magical powers they had previously. You hear them talk about Sky Blue Sky and it was a conscious effort to just write songs. It wasn't some kind of "oh I've stopped smoking cigarettes and popping pills so now I'm weepy and writing cutesie soft rock because my powers are gone." It was just about the guys getting together and making simple, beautiful songs. No reinventing the wheel. JT has also pointed out the lack of credit he's been given at every turn ("o