Animal Collective, Free Spirited Pop or A Spiraling Mess?
Proof that music is a tricky little bag to tag, the recent success and subsequent popularity of Animal Collective is baffling, at least to myself. Very seldomly will you catch someone standing on the street humming a tune to “Who Could Win a Rabbit”, most of their songs are unhummable (yeah, I made up a word, jealous?) yet still they are growing larger and larger, like a fern you received from your then girlfriend/now ex-girlfriend, they just won’t seem to go away. At first I found myself absolutly fighting this music, stating the only reason it would ever sell a record is because Ryan from Pitchfork said its good, and for some reason people like to listen to him. I found Campfire Songs boring and largely unlistenable, Song Tongs grew on me, and now I find that the new album Feels has leaked, and I can’t really shake it from my winamp. Have I myself finally sucumb to the constant barrage to the indie hip marketing, is a complete wardrobe of Urban Outfitters clothing flying into my closet as type this very post? Not very likely, maybe I grew as a music listener myself, maybe they are writing more intesting songs. I guess I could chicken and egg myself to death with this, I choose not to think about it anymore and just enjoy listening. Grass is the first single off the album, here it is for you cheapskates, but like all the music I post here, I fully recommend buying the album when it comes out because its as good as gravy on your Thanksgiving Turkey. Wait! There isn’t a Turkey in the band is there? I wouldn’t want to offend anyone.