Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillon
I’ve been slow to appreciate Animal Collective, or, rather, I feel they’ve only recently evolved to achieve the level of acclaim that they’ve always seemed to have had. Their debut Sung Tongs started out interestingly enough, but soon drifted into meandering territory hardly appropriate for anything more stimulating than a bubble bath. Feels was a stronger take on a similar sound, but while some second half experiments worked (“Bees,” “Loch Raven”), others were merely drawn out (“Daffy Duck,” “Turn Into Something”). Strawberry Jam was more sidestep than step forward, but it proved the band had a mountain of interesting ideas (fittingly, the album has aged quite wonderfully). Which brings me to Merriweather Post Pavillion, a miraculously dense extension of their faux-arthouse sound. “Bluish,” “Brother Sport,” and “My Girls” are so deep and textured it’s almost hard to go back to their earlier, understated work. Merriweather will be long held as proof of a brilliant band at the top of their game.
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