Twangy twang! Good morning from some local DC kids.
Got this off of the new Blackberry Messenger commercial, no lie.
While I think I am still ultimately disappointed with MGMT’s most recent album Congratulations, a few singles off it are creeping their way into my usual rotation. I particularly like the bridge at about 2:10.
-jakeyp
The FLips and their fellow touring band/roadie crew Stardeath & White Dwarfs gave it’s Christmas gift a little early this year (with the exception of this) in the form of a totally wackass cover treatment to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it yet, but I can at the least appreciate that the two bands attempted to play to their strengths and make the songs their own– no attempt at matching any of Gibbon’s/Water’s epic guitar solos to be found. Instead they crank on the fuzz, the out-of-place noise sampling, and some Embryonic-esque gloom.
-jakeyp
An obligatory Animal Collective selection given the fact that somebody spilled whiteout all over Harrisonburg this morning. This is one of AC’s more organic sounding songs; it’s pretty nifty what you can do with acoustic guitar, a few drums, and 4-part harmony via tribal moaning. Eskimo seduction music.
-jakeyp
Animal Collective just released (11 months after the fact) a music video for In The Flowers, the opening track off of their early-2009 hit Merriweather Post Pavillion. I was kind of shocked to learn of it when I cccliqued onto pitchfork this morning, because In The Flowers definitely isn’t the type of radio-friendly track you’d end up crafting a video for, despite it being my favorite track off of MPP. Noticed how I tried to slip that admission in there? Don’t get me wrong– My Girls is a hell of a track; probably one of the most solid of their careers. Something about that song can even tap the toes of the most venomous of Animal Collective haters, and I’m convinced it can be used by the United Nations as a peacekeeping measure. If anything can convince the Israelites and the Palestinians to stop their aggressions and hold a unified bilateral break-dancing and candy conference, its definitely My Girls.
In The Flowers of its own ilk though because its a marriage between the Animal Collective of the past and the new songwriting structures they permeated throughout the new album. The song seemingly opens up on the road to nowhere with menacing, pitch wavering guitar that meanders the precipice between sweet and caustic. Any fan of of the band knows, and part of the reason the band is so divisive, is that an Animal Collective song can meander on like this for a solid 8 minutes before the song ends, not really going anywhere after building up all that tension. In the Flowers seems to be of the same ilk until Panda Bear decides “If I could just leave my body for the night” and the song’s floodgates open into an explosion of carnival lights, LSD fog and concentrated joy. Animal Collective wanted you to know that this was going to be unlike any of there other albums, and that In The Flowers would pay it’s built tension off with senses of release. The next 10 songs proved it as one of the best albums of not only 2009, but perhaps the decade.
-jakeyp
