New Animal Collective

Merriweather Post Pavillion: Easily the most hyped album of the year.  Did it live up to expectations?  Certainly... You'd have to be crazy not to like it (or you could just not be an Animal Collective fan and then it would just sound like repetitive boring shitty cacophonous nothing...), but I still loved it.  It was right up there with Sung Tongs in my book, and My Girls has got to be considered one of the songs that 2009 will be remembered  for (whether you hate it or love it.... but you better love it).  BUT NO... THERE'S MORE.... 

With not that much pre-warning, a week or two ago AnCo (yes I'm calling them that) released a new EP, Fall Be Kind.  This will be their 10th EP/LP of ALL new material... in 7 YEARS.  That's unbelievable!  In my opinion, that is a slight testament to the reasons why people don't like them... they feel all the songs sound the same.  Their sound is such that because it is so electronic and there is so much white/abstract noise (I hesitate to call it noise...) in the songs a commoner... (non-AnCo fan) might say 'o those songs are so easy to make, there is no musically quality.'  This is something I completely disagree with.  I think that somehow, out of all the... noise... in the songs, they somehow manage to build environments that are really wonderful to listen to.  So yes, maybe there is some truth in that they do put out a TON of material, and that maybe it is just because of the style of their sound, but they still manage to put out consistently great stuff and stuff that can really... captivate you.

So... the new EP.
 It's pretty standard AnCo fare... really layered, complex sounding songs.  Lots of weird noises, vocals that repeat stuff like that.  To me, it's stuff that I can never get tired of.  If you like Animal Collective, you will like this.  For me though, the bigger question is that... will there be an album coming soon?  You know that they will release (at least) one LP in 2010, but with this just out and the new year coming, you gotta wonder if it's coming even before maybe the end of the holiday season.

In other news, Animal Collective will be premiering a film at the Sundance Film Festival.  According to them, it's pretty trippy, not a lot of live action... another words it'll be exactly what you expect out of an Animal Collective movie.  It's called ODDSAC.  I'm sure it won't exactly be Casablanca, but I bet the visuals will be pretty awesome and it will be a fun thing to watch.  I'm betting they will post clips of it, and when they do I will repost 'em.

-- A Teenage Elephant
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