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Merriweather Post Pavilion

Album

Merriweather Post Pavilion

2009Alternative · Music · Rock · Prog-Rock/Art Rock · Indie Rock

Avant-pop electronics fuel a bubbling fountain of pure joy.

Tracks

  1. 15:22
  2. 25:40
  3. 35:14
  4. 44:30
  5. 55:46
  6. 65:13
  7. 74:30
  8. 83:53
  9. 94:12
  10. 104:23
  11. 115:59
  12. 125:26

About this album

On Strawberry Jam, Animal Collective infused pop songwriting with a mercurial electronic spirit; on 2009’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, they find beauty in chaos—and vice versa. “My Girls” arrays dizzying, Beach Boys–inspired vocal harmonies over synths that explode like fireworks; “Summertime Clothes” starts like a battle hymn for a kazoo army and turns into a bubbling fountain of pure joy. And on the closing “Brother Sport,” Brazilian samba rhythms and AM-radio frequencies put a globe-trotting spin on the group’s restless sound.