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Universal acclaim- based on 627 Ratings
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Oct 11, 2021About as experimental as experimental can get. An overwhelming delivery of complex pleasant "pop" tunes with a blend of influences but majority beach boys. From the trance of "my girls" to the indescribable "lion in a coma" all you can do is sit back and let them dictate how many more ways can a record surprise you. Favourites:lion in a coma,brother sport,my girls
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Apr 5, 2020Animal Collective's most popular album remains a transcendent, magical experience. It's album that invites warm memories of summers long gone, and celebrates good times to come. Moreover, it champions the idea that some of most profound moments of our life occur entirely in our minds.
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Feb 24, 2020
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Feb 28, 2019This is one of the best experimental records of all time. Animal Collective has created a beautiful work of art.
Favorites: In The Flowers, My Girls, Also Frightened, Summertime Clothes, Daily Routine, Bluish, Guys Eyes, Taste, Lion in a Coma
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May 5, 2018Wonderful and as good as any Animal Collective album, this album is strange, weird, and absurdly beautiful.
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Apr 24, 2018
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Jul 27, 2016This is one of their best albums ever. Its the most polished and over the top to date. All the songs on this album are a joy to listen to. The song writing is solid and this is probably their most pop like record. Not dense and sounds natural. Vocals are dreamy and lush. Amazing soundscapes.
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May 1, 2016Merriweather Post Pavilion is Animal Collective's best work and in my opinion one of the top 5 best albums from the 00's. The way it opens up your imagination and senses is nothing short of amazing. Groundbreaking instrumentation and style.
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Feb 22, 2016Impressive album! Love the beats, melodies, and the experimentation of sounds and vocals. It's a transcending and upbeat experience. Definitely worth a listen!
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Jul 10, 2015MPP is exhilaratingly fun and full of joy, and it's by far one of the best accomplishments in not only American but also worldwide music. In its messy planet, it does find perfection. 10/10
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Jun 9, 2015
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May 11, 2015At first it might be hard to get into, but once you actually listen to the music and understand the meanings to the songs it becomes more accessible to listen to. This album is still underrated in my opinion. I suggest giving it a chance before you label it as trash.
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Jul 25, 2014
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Apr 16, 2014
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Dec 1, 2013MPP is not a perfect album, some of the tracks on here simply just don't compare to the ultra-highs of songs like Summertime Clothes and In the Flowers. Regardless, this album will be remembered for decades to come whether we like it or not.
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Sep 19, 2013
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Sep 6, 2013
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Apr 11, 2013Cant believe the morons who think it is too much to take in I was listening to this album when I was 13 its not hard. I still absolutely love the album one of the best of this century If you think this is difficult have a listen to aphex twin you morons.
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Mar 20, 2013Animal Collective...a bunch of animals...playing good music. I'd say, this would be one of the best records of Neo-Psychedelia music. Yes, they did it. A big jump from Strawberry Jam. I love 'My Girls', so hip...Now get the out of here and buy this album if you haven't...NOW!
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Dec 11, 2012Best album Animal Collective has ever made! 'My Girls' is amazing! The song starts out slow but builds up to an amazing song! I will say this music isn't for everybody but if you like this kind of music, it is the best!
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Aug 17, 2012This album contains some of Animal Collective's highest moments on certain songs, but the rest of the album comes off as significantly less entertaining filler. Overall still totally enjoyable.
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Jul 6, 2012There's not much to say about this record. It's a masterpiece, beautifully made and to those who never listened to it, you're missing A LOT and I feel sorry for you.
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Jun 8, 2012I have to say that this album continues to amaze me with the ability to be so close to being a Poppy album and yet be so far from being a pop album. I don't know if that makes sense, but I know that this album will blow your mind the more you listen to it.
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Apr 24, 2012
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Mar 23, 2012One of the greatest albums of the 2000s. Great songs about simple living, love, and a dissection of cool. Some of the best songs I've ever heard. Highlights include In the Flowers, Taste, Bluish.
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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 22, 2011One of the best records of 2009. Finally their sound comes together in this Brian Wilson inspired album.
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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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Jul 13, 2011
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Jul 10, 2011An all-encompassing, perfectly layered, challenging and beautiful album.
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May 25, 2011I have tried and tried again with this album and have come to the opinion that it just isn't very good. I bought this following the copious 10/10 or 5star reviews it received in the music press, but it's... dull. It only gets 4 because of the fantastic 'My Girls'. Download that track separately and save yourself the time I wasted.
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May 17, 2011If Merriweather Post Pavilion is not a 5-Star album I don't know what is!
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Apr 12, 2011
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Mar 27, 2011
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Mar 23, 2011these songs are just blanketed by repetitious sounds. each song blurring into the next. very annoying and unlistenable. (mind you i still enjoy their previous LP's :Sung Tongs and Feels). This is utter garbage. It sounds as if they mixed instruments into a blender, and this is what came out.
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Dec 23, 2010
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Nov 2, 2010A masterpiece, to me this might not be as good as Strawberry Jam but it is perfect in it's own unique way because every album this band makes is so different than the previous it's hard to compare. For what they did here, the focus they took it is perfect and has no real comparison.
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Sep 11, 2010If you were to judge this album on first impression, then you'll need this. Unless you wanna miss out a loud, atmospheric-awesomeness experience. Animal Collective's most commercial and structured album.
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Aug 18, 2010This album is bananas! I highly disagree with Pitchfork, this album deserves great recognition.
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Aug 14, 2010Let's do this.
In The Flowers - 10
My Girls - 10
Also Frightened - 10
Summertime Clothes - 10
Daily Routine - 7
Bluish - 9
Guys Eyes - 9
Taste - 10
Lion in a Coma - 9
No More Runnin - 8
Brother Sport - 9
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Aug 12, 2010
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RiccardinhoFeb 3, 2010Meh. Noisy, over-produced, boring. Music for critics, not for listening to.
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TroelsS.Jan 18, 2010
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VictorO.Jan 14, 2010Unlike their transcendent, delightfully inaccessible treat Feels from 2005, this is either a commercial sell-out or an unabashed homage. The influences abound: A lot of The Beach Boys and The Mamas and the Papas, a smattering of the Flaming Lips and XTC, and a hint of Lindsey Buckingham/Fleetwood Mac. Where's my independently freakish genius band?
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MattLJan 12, 2010
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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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BaxterJan 7, 2010I went in expecting something terrible, as my previous experience with the band was not something I enjoyed. But what I found was one of the best albums of the year. Nice and enjoyable music that reminds me why pop is still a genre worth considering. Not the masterpiece that oh so many Pitchfork readers are calling it, but still an extremely solid and fun album.
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robertfJan 2, 2010One of "Those Albums" of the decade, Animal Collective really figured things out on this record. Feels may still be my personal favorite but this album is more full of hooks, emotion as well as an appreciation for love and music than may be more enthusiastic and hopeful than any "classic" album in a long long time. avey's songwriting keeps getting better (i.e. summertime clothes).
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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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MaxWDec 19, 2009Best album of the year, top 3 this decade along with Is This it by the Strokes and Funeral by Arcade Fire. The way Animal Collective blends so many different sounds to create something exceptional continues to amaze me. Anyone who rates this below about a 7 has no idea what they're talking about
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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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HagenM.Dec 16, 2009This music is ahead of its time by decades. Perfection has been achieved.
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TimmyD.Dec 15, 2009
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nashDec 15, 2009The most overrated album of the year. Was bored after a few listens and the album is now gathering dust in the back of my collection. No doubt I will one day give it yet another listen much to my annoyance.
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ErnestK.Dec 14, 2009
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timmydNov 29, 2009
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JTNov 27, 2009
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CurtisB.Nov 24, 2009Amazing. Beautiful. Incomparable. Fresh. Fun. Ahead of our time.
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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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JohnnieT.Nov 12, 2009There is some fantastic stuff here - when they nail the blissed out 22nd century Beach Boys style(particularly on Bluish, Guys Eyes, My Girls), then it plays like a dream. Infuriatingly however, at times its undermined by its own exuberant eclecticism and the need for sonic experimentation can occasionally get in the way of those melodies. If only we could hear them!
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FredR.Nov 11, 2009An interesting album which is grossly overrated. MPP is one of the better 21st century progrock albums. Now do a comparison test: If Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon was a 10 how would you rate this album? I would give this a 6 at best.
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nicka.Nov 9, 2009
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JoeNov 4, 2009This album could have been a complete disaster. It strives on its Beach Boyish vocals and music that doesn't drive you crazy like their Feels album. Not the best album of the year, but one of the biggest surprises.
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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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BmanOct 30, 2009
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VeeOct 11, 2009This music does not fit you if you love the mindless beat of the Jonas Brothers or Miley Cyrus or Nickleback. If you want to fill your mind with "baby babybabybaby" over thousands of time in a single album then you should go back to mainstream. To the people who bought this album because of the reviews: people who review musics have something that you don't: mind, brain, thoughts.
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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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EliJ.Oct 4, 2009
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RayV.Sep 23, 2009
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patSep 23, 2009
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stomaSep 21, 2009Vital--contains ancient, in-between-the-lines truths--like electronica played with dirt clods in stead of keyboards--thgis is genetically important music--some will need to morph new synapses to accept the revelations but it is growth worth the strain.
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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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ChrisMAug 30, 2009It's otherworldly, the music and how good this album is.
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DerekPAug 27, 2009
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JasonPAug 25, 2009
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JayPAug 25, 2009Terrible... hate it.
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mSAug 13, 2009
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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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DougHAug 2, 2009Great music. But when did it become the thing to invoke the Beach Boys every time a group sings harmony? This is a great album, but it doesn't sound even remotely like Pet Sounds or Smile so the comparison is just stupid. I agree with the previous reviewer that it sounds more like the Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows"
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DavidHAug 2, 2009
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GideonAAug 1, 2009
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SteveSJul 31, 2009
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AndrewB.Jul 20, 2009Every song is amazing and all are VERY replayable. Best album of this year (I don't see anything topping it), and one of the best of the decade.
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JohnTJul 6, 2009
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JimDJun 30, 2009
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EricCJun 28, 2009
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BlooJun 24, 2009Everything importand is in the reviews, so I can only say I love this CD.
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JaySJun 14, 2009
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GraemeTJun 2, 2009Album of the year so far! Hands down! It's a wonderful album, joyous and interesting. I've been listening to it since it came out and ahh it's so pretty.
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mattmJun 1, 2009Okay for people to say that this is an intellectual album, instead of an album to enjoy the hell out of, you are just stupid and don't even seem understand music. This album is one of the few albums where I just want to get up and dance with friends. Come on 'summertime clothes'? How can you think thats a song to 'think about'?
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AndyMay 27, 2009Great album, although I have my doubts as to how well this album would hold up live after watching them perform on Letterman.
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ChrisMay 23, 2009I'm sure buck and ken are douches who listen to top 20, or who think the new green day album is actually good. This album is unbelievable. You don't need guitars to make art fellas.
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JustinLMay 19, 2009Good album, still prefer Strawberry Jam. It's just a shame that Metacritic allows ignorant people post stupidity, if you don't think it's music why did you buy the album. Best 20 bucks I spent.
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KenDMay 10, 2009
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GeoffreyGMay 9, 2009The way so many different, disparate sounds mesh to create beautiful, melodic songs blows my mind. The Beach Boys-esque vocal harmonies are gorgeous, the songs build wonderfully, I just love this album. And it just keeps getting better and better.
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ThomasWMay 8, 2009It took me a couple of listens to actually "take in" this album. It's... so... good. The beats and melodies are tremendous, and I love it oh so much.
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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]