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- Summary: The ninth album from the rock group was produced by Ben Allen.
- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Top Track
| My Girls | |
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| There isn't much that I feel I need A solid soul and the blood I bleed But with a little girl, and by my spouse I only want a proper house There... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 35 out of 36
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Mixed: 1 out of 36
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Negative: 0 out of 36
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It feels like one of the landmark American albums of the century so far. [Jan 2008, p.86]
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Even by their own exuberant standards, though, AC's ninth album is a dizzying knees-up that makes most music, indie rock or otherwise, sound both bloodless and pathetically timid.
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Has the album of 2009 been unleashed in January? I can’t see anything else coming near it.
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With Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective have proven themselves to be at the forefront of progressive pop, as deadly with their textures as they are with their melodies.
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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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Some of the phrasing on "MPP" sticks; some of it soars; most of it slips and slides through puddles of rich sonic texture. Only at a distance does the magic of the whole major-key mess become clear.
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Animal Collective has backslid into a comfortable, but unfortunately unexciting, middle ground.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 162 out of 205
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Mixed: 18 out of 205
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Negative: 25 out of 205
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CurtisB.Nov 24, 2009Amazing. Beautiful. Incomparable. Fresh. Fun. Ahead of our time.
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GeoffreyGMay 9, 2009
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DaveAJan 20, 2009Haha theres 37 user votes and this hasn't even been up on metacritic for a day! Its hard not to go ape shit over an album this amazing.
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Jul 6, 2012
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DeanBMar 27, 2009A thrilling roller-coaster ride of an indie-pop album, creating a maddening euphoric buzz in your head which stays with you - and grows.
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RaifordMar 21, 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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