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Universal acclaim- based on 627 Ratings
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Positive: 537 out of 627
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Mixed: 35 out of 627
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Negative: 55 out of 627
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Mar 8, 2012Am I the only one who thinks their songs' melodies sound all same? Aside from the trying-really-hard diverse and supposedly creative production, I find their music incredibly boring.
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Sep 2, 2011This band can hit a groove and go off on an incredible tangent and bring it home BUT you have to weed through so many songs to find any coheasiveness and it can become mundane and distorted to listen to sectoraly
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MikeM.Jan 9, 2010I don't get it. I just don't get it. I enjoy all kinds of musical and agree with Metacritic most of the time. But after one listen to this, I had to force myself to listen a second time, and have no desire to do that again. Doesn't do anything for me.
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JohnGJan 9, 2010Boring, pretentious trash. It sounds like all the tracks were designed to be in car commercials.
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TonysTJan 2, 2010Sorry Animal Collective - your record is clever, innovative, and very well produced, and I admire you for that, but its not enjoyable to listen to, isn't engaging, and doesn't connect with me at all.
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DarkoDec 27, 2009The most overrated album of the year. Tried to listen to it several times, but just can't get it. Somebody called it "danceable"... what a joke!
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tombDec 20, 2009Animal Collective has an aversion to melody. It's all about placement of strange sound effects and the repetition of those effects instead of instruments. I can't handle the slicker-than-grease production. All the songs move at the same mid-tempo pace and feel slightly different from one another. Not for me.
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kevinm.Dec 17, 2009How can this even be considered a musical composition? it sounds like a bunch of douche bags with way too many synths ripping off concept work brian wilson was doing back in the 60's and 70's. I guess im just not hip enough to get it.
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ErnestK.Dec 14, 2009
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JTNov 27, 2009
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GoodMusicLoverNov 14, 2009This is really a boring and annoying album, any other album, Mainstream or not, out there is so much better. I gave it a 3 because I still think it is better than other stuff like Radiohead or other "alternative" bands that really suck. Sorry if I offend anybody with this, it's just my opinion.
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MingV.Nov 2, 2009This kind of music makes me think the Americans have done so much drugs and other derangement in their whole life 'til a young age that they lost all senses of aesthetic and decency.
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TonyMOct 7, 2009When told its Kid A, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Agaetis Byrjun, and Funeral all rolled up into one, it grabs my attention. I bought the hype. Two years down the road, this one iis destined to fill used CD bins everywhere.
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RayV.Sep 23, 2009
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JohnFSep 13, 2009I've really tried to like this album. After all, the gushing reviews have to be indicative of excellence, haven't they? However, after umpteen listens I've failed. I still think it's the most over-rated album I've heard in years. Yesterday, I consigned it to the garbage bin.
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JulianEAug 11, 2009Either a experimental or a pop band not being good at either field. Nuff' said
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DavidMAug 10, 2009Animal Collective's last lp is for junkies! El último cd de Animal Collectives es para chemos!!
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SteveSJul 31, 2009
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JimDJun 30, 2009
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KenDMay 10, 2009
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BuckApr 28, 2009For people who prefer to think about music rather than enjoy it.
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MikeDApr 13, 2009I like a bit a of wierd...but this album is just confusing, noisy and overated...and all the 'sheep' here would NOT have giving it 10/10 if the critics had slammed it!!!! It just aint Music people!!!!
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FarrajDApr 1, 2009This music is so bad, it could be used as an instrument for torture.
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abesJan 27, 2009I used to be 'with it', but then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it', and what's 'it' seems weird and scary.
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MarkC.Jan 24, 2009This band and its albums are extremely overrated. They make mildly annoying background music.
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Awards & Rankings
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MojoBy far the most streamlined and purposeful Animal Collective record. [Jan 2008, p.98]
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In years past, Animal Collective have been cast as perpetual Peter Pans, forever stuck in childhood fantasias. But beneath the body-moving throbs and coruscating noises of Merriweather Post Pavilion, themes of domestic duty and devotion abound.
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It feels like one of the landmark American albums of the century so far. [Jan 2008, p.86]