Sam Spade

the whereabouts of both the key and the secret are entirely unbeknownst to animal collective i'm afraid

The Rafalution

They might make my top 50

RedefiningForm

are you saying you agree with the article or disagree? </BLOCKQUOTE>

Disagree completely, it's contradictory to say on one hand that they're "still trying to get our heads around what the **** we'd just heard" and on the other hand giving it an 87% rating.

understanding in the sense that if a band makes their music deliberately obtuse and baffling (what does the distorted mumbling at the start of Who Could Win a Rabbit add?), thus leaving their listeners "still trying to get our heads around what the **** we'd just heard" then it doesn't seem like music at all.

Same sort of people who'd marvel at a flies buzzing around a month old slab of rotten meat placed in the centre of a whitewashed room. Art at its most supreme.

RedefiningForm

There's meant to be a quote from tim one million in between the first and second paragraphs that I've left out.

Wilbie

can't stand this band. their music irritates me.

The Rafalution

its not at all, there are cases when i've heard something for the first time and found it absolutly amazing and moving but still havent 'got my head around it' until 50 listens later.


you can acknoledge you dont understand something, or dont understand you like, but still like it at the same time

Sam Spade

They might make my top 50 </BLOCKQUOTE>

consider your opinion slip null and void

SlowlyDownward

Taste is not even worth discussing tbh.

There is music where I draw the line as well ofc. Can't stand Black/Death Metal, or even the very obscure electronic music of Autechre, Squarepusher or 90% of what Aphex Twin has done, but i'm not going to say "that isn't music". It clearly is as each of these artists have a huge cult following.

tim1000000

are you saying you agree with the article or disagree? </BLOCKQUOTE>

Disagree completely, it's contradictory to say on one hand that they're "still trying to get our heads around what the **** we'd just heard" and on the other hand giving it an 87% rating.

understanding in the sense that if a band makes their music deliberately obtuse and baffling (what does the distorted mumbling at the start of Who Could Win a Rabbit add?), thus leaving their listeners "still trying to get our heads around what the **** we'd just heard" then it doesn't seem like music at all.

Same sort of people who'd marvel at a flies buzzing around a month old slab of rotten meat placed in the centre of a whitewashed room. Art at its most supreme. </BLOCKQUOTE>


well the equivalent of that would be something like 4'33''. animal collective are hardly farting into the mic and selling it as music, and if they were it wouldn't be popular. taking an approach towards making music that doesn't at times surprise or perplex the listener seems to obligate 'sticking to the beaten track' and impede experimentation.

first example that comes to mind, but why did radiohead write pyramid song with such an unusual time signature? because it gives the song an ethereal and disconcerting effect that the band were presumeably aiming for.
similarly, why include a small sample at the beginning of 'who could win a rabbit'? because it lends to the song's disorientingly radiant vibe and contributes to the same mood across the whole album.

if a band makes their music deliberately obtuse and baffling then it's probably part of a stylistic effort to make the listener feel overwhelmed and baffled by what they've heard. the difference being some people enjoy that, whereas you patently don't, and i disagree that that's really what animal collective are about (well, maybe for pre-sung tongs stuff).

Demetri

Honestly, I think they are pretty great live from everything I've seen and experienced myself. Most of their songs actually sound BETTER live in my opinion.

Four of the best new Animal Collective songs -


Song for Ariel

Daily Routine

Brother Sport


Bearhug