Synthesizer Patel

I've listened to it all now. I don't think I can add anything to what I've said before really. I do like Sung Tongs, but not anywhere near as much as Feels, Strawberry Jam or Spirt They're Gone They've Vanished or even some of the EPs.

thanks for the interview. i've listened to half of it the other day, and i'll listen to the rest later. then we can argue some more about how much they are like the beach boys or not.

video for the single off the album (hope it's got some good b sides when it comes out): my girls - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=O5xm0e8AX0s

they don't really sound like they do on their records. and you might find that they are playing a whole new bunch of songs you've never heard before by the time you see them, cos they write music on tour and play it live to work out the tunes, then go in the studio and by the time the album's come out they've moved on to the next thing. at the moment they are using a lot of samplers rather than playing much. but they normally have a guitarist in the band who's been absent for a while, but may come back in time for june. here's a good live clip from 2007 to give you an idea of what they're

Just watched the highlights on tv. Looks like the world has found a new leader! So I guess that vacancy is now taken. We were going to do an X-Factor style audition, but Simon Cowell was busy.

not really. but, 8 times out of 10 (i was going to say 9 times, but that's a little high) - the ones who consciously do so are pretty shit.

maybe not musically, as such. but more than just the vocals i think that whole sort of "Teenage Symphony To God" - ecstatic feel, to a lot of both band's music, is where i see a similarity. i've got no doubt they don't sit there listening to the beach boys, trying to copy them, because if you listen to their music just from a scientific point of view, there's not that much the same. it's just that i get the feeling how both bands approach/approached their music and what music means/meant to them is very similar. it's not like i only know a few bands to reference when talking about new music

i think they definately sound at times like the beatles on this new album. i'm sure, i've said that before - if not, i should have done. as for them not actually trying to sound like the beach boys, that doesn't mean they don't. i think from what you've just said - about the everly brothers and doo-wop etc... that's exactly the sort of thing that the beach boys were inspired by - which is why they probably sound like each other so much - in terms of what they do with vocal arrangements. i'll like to hear that radio show.

cool. a new recruit! probably the thing i love best about this album, and the band's music in general, is that modern music - when it's being experimental and new - tends to be very melancholic in tone, whereas nearly everything about animal collective's music is joyous. lots of people call it childish, but the same thing is levelled at brian wilson, and the beach boys at times - the thing is, it's very difficult to over complicate and intellectualise happiness, you're not really think about too much when you're happy - whereas you think about too much when you're sad. so happy music is never

all in an attempt to stave off the january blues. apparently this is called 'blue monday' in the uk - scientifically proven to be the most depressing day of the year! or so thay say.

i'd pick it as their best too, by quite a long way actually. i'd recommend it to anyone that thinks they don't like pearl jam. my list would be 01 no code 02 vitalogy 03 yield 04 vs 05 ten and the others aren't even worth mentioning in the same list as those 5.

just got my reissue in the post this morning! absolutely brilliant boxset of a fantastic album.

is it because they're not actually foxes?

no, but they look like Stare 184

i predict he'll love it! if solace can change, anyone can also, that Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit Mixtape free album is worth hearing for anyone wanting some more pitchfork approved afropop sounds: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OfYdlAPI8S4 they even make vampire weekend sound good: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OcC3Z3ynwMg

It's not really like that, though - or i don't think it is, maybe it has the same things in it that will put you off. Try this: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0SWKnXIZFyg and this: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fQZsr4QcW8E&...feature=related it's a track off the album (not good sound quality, but you'll get an idea)

i don't really notice it. there is certainly not as much as on Person Pitch, but I think some of the reason for that reverb was because the source material of the samples often had a lot of reverb on it, and also when you layer that many layers of sound on something it becomes a little hazy and less defined. yes. you really should hear it. and that is not a subjective opinion, it's a fact.

yes i'm not trying to say that vampire weekend are shit here, i was trying to defend what they did - i just can't defend them being great cos i don't think they are. whereas i do think so with animal collective. i'd just find it more interesting and able to contribute more if we were talking about them instead with regard to white guys taking african influences. have you heard the new album?, cos it's a lot more poppy than any of their other stuff. i'd have thought you'd like it.

yeah. they are hip. that doesn't mean that vampire weekend, for example, could just copy that production - cos all that will do is make reverb less hip, not them more so.

you can't become hipper, you either are or you aren't.

ok, i'll mark them up to a D- happy now?

But don't Afropop band's try and sound like western bands?, which is where the Pop bit of their name comes from. I wonder if they get hung up on not being from that culture when they steal from it? Personally I think we should all be talking Animal Collective's album and the 'afropop' influences on that - cos I'd argue white kids from america can have african influences and be good at it - not this mediocre band. But, I think the fact that they are white and rich doesn't mean they shouldn't be allowed to play any style of music they wish to. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are both white midd

i didn't even know there was a good cd version out. i'm going looking for that now then. really i'm just waiting to get an actual cd of it, cos my cd player/amp ect... always sound a million times better than any mp3 i've ever had. but, that'll have to wait until next week. my current favs happen to be bluish (which i loved even from that little clip that leaked ages ago), guys eyes, and summertime clothes.

it's not for people like you to know. simply rest assured in the knowledge that some people understand it. i'm not saying i'm one of them, but i'm not saying i'm not either. this album really does sound good to me right now. i can't fathom how anyone could not like it really, but then maybe i'm looking at it from the viewpoint of their other albums, and how this sounds a lot more commericial in many ways. maybe it's still not inviting enough for mass appeal.