Merriweather Post Pavilion

Trash.

Painful just awful ..how?

Did not manage to finish the album. Unfortunately not my cup of tea.

am I on the spliff

Taste

Niche

This is an album that really needs a bass player.

Sung Tongs to Feels to Strawberry Jam to Panda Bear’s Person Pitch to Merriweather Post Pavilion is one of the best five album runs in history. This is the most accessible, but not the peak. Worth doing them all if you loved this.

It's refreshing to get an actual original, innovative album released in the last 20 years on the list, as opposed to middling releases by legacy artists and Millennial dad rock. 🐐🐕🐑🐈🐘 / 5

Excellent train journey music.

I wanted to like it more

This is really cool, but it got repetitive.

Metelöivää indietä.

Nää on näitä musiikkikriitikkojen levyjä. Omaan korvaan tuntu ensikuulemalta perus indierokilta ja kokoajan todella äänekäs levy. Musiikkimaailmasta jossain määrin tuttu lätty, voi olla että annan vielä lisää kuuntelua, kun kiinnostaa kuitenkin päällisin puolin. Varovainen nelonen lähinnä mielenkiinnon herättelyn vuoksi.

A little generic, not for me

I liked many weird albums, but not this one. Also I can’t understand how this is higher rated than said albums and most importantly more streamed, meaning people today still listen to this, not this being on the list just for some historical value thing. I listened to most of it, but for some reason my left airbud kept reaching for the emergency exit while I was washing laundry, so I respected its decision at least if mine didn’t matter. It was like what you hear when you get roofied but they actually leave you at the ER on a foggy night at 3 am with no one in sight. That last one Brother Sport was the most decent one

I remember this being the ultimate album to listen to for pitchfork fans, and even at the time I didn't really like it. I liked Feels a lot more. Brother Sport and My Girls are still bangers though. My opinion has slightly improved but still one of the albums that was unfairly inflated by the internet.

Colorful, psychedelic album for the spring. Very unique and lively, but also quirky as per usual with AnCo. On this album tho, surprisingly, I feel like they are at their best when they lean more into their pop sensibilities. It's a bit of a Beatles worship, but done very well, with gorgeous, layered harmonies and super catchy choruses. In the Flowers and My Girls are prime examples of that. On the other hand there is all these weird experiments which by comparison don't work as well for me. They are hypnotic and trippy, but a lot less memorable and enjoyable. The weird electronics don't do it for me either. I do enjoy some of Animal Collective's more 'out there' music - Spirits They're Gone and Sung Tongs in particular, as those albums build upon their noisy textures and weird loner acoustics in a more successful and enchanting way than most of this record.

sure

Not bad

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Not terribly exciting. Just experimental pop without much power.

I like this more than the others and so illusion

not for me

Me chocó que ya hubiera bandas influenciadas por Pavement. En general el disco es un aprobado y como siempre debería ser un 2,5. Me guardo "Summertime clothes".

It's very much that early 2000s alternative sound. I'm into it, and I love how atmospheric "my girls" is. Highlights: my girls

All I want is shimmering cacophony and adobe slats for my girls.

Whiny and long

Experimental pop? This sounds like they listened to Brian Wilson bootlegs to me. Then used 2009 electronic sounds and techniques. Alright if you want that, everyone is influenced even the actual greats, no problem there. Guess it's OK. But It's modular method just leaves it feeing repeatative and dare I say somewhat dull to me. Though many may find it expressive. Don't hate it, heard it 2.5 Star

Aš suprantu, kad įdomu ir tikriausiai groundbreaking, bet man tiesiog nelabai patiko ir antrą kartą nesiklausyčiau.

67???

Interesting. Like a 21st century Pet Sounds put through a blender.

Не знал о существовании этой группы. Прикольная психоделика

Quite interesting and starts off really well with some nice modern psychedelia. An album I should possibly revisit.

Meh, it was alright I guess. Good background noise. They did remind me a bit of The Shins. Maybe I didn't give them an honest listen. 3 stars.

It’s ok. There’s probably better weirdo indie rock albums from around this time than this.

It's not bad....but a lot of this is a little too 'out there' for me.

First album for a while that I just haven’t had any enjoyment from. Incoherent noises over songs that are way too long.

This is solid but people slob this

Some more solid tunes for hardwork

This was interesting. Nothing stood out to me like crazy. But, it was still a chill listen

I wanted to like this more than I did, very out there. Parts of it I really enjoy, other parts not as much. Felt it dragged more and more with each listen (2-3 times through). Album art threw me for a loop, thought it was animated at first.

No

Day 407 One of those bands I’ve heard about a lot but never actually heard any of their stuff. It’s nothing really isn’t it. Can’t remember a thing about it.

To pa čist nič ne poznam. Iiin mogoč bi loh pri tem ostal? Vse se mi blenda skup, pojma nimam kok komadov je blo do zdej ("Bluish"), ker je continuous noise. V reviewih vidim primerjave z Beach Boys & če ne druzga, so glih pri tem komadu (še kar "Bluish") občasno vokali v tem stilu. Drgač pa, niti ne? At all. Že naslovnica mi hrye na kurac, k te takoj oči zabolijo. Muska je v bistvu k naslovnica, v tem pogledu, so z naslovnico zadel.

I always used to get this group confused with The Sound of Animals Fighting, a rock animal collective. This album was too psychedelic for me, but never bad.

Album 327. Merriweather Post Pavilion — Animal Collective (2009) Shitty shit. I don't know why I should listen to this. It's definitely not the album I should listen before I die. C'mon, I listened to 90s hip-hop today and it was quadrillion times better than this anal-animal bullshit. I'm swapping today's album from this to Dah Shinin' album by Smif-N-Wessun. That's a really good one But this... 2/5 No liked songs

Ganska uselt faktiskt. Sången lirar inte med musiken och alla vill låta mest på samma gång. Finns kanske vissa ljusglimtar, men överlag ganska kasst. Coolt omslag som ger en viss synvilla. Efter ytterligare lyssning kan jag konstatera att detta suger enormt

quite literally 1 singular good song

Hadn’t heard this in over a decade, but I’m instantly reminded of how it was described upon release as the Beach Boys on acid, and that’s accurate and possibly redundant when it comes to Brian Wilson, but yeah this one is a head trip. I think of cascading and shimmering and reverberating.

LO TROVO TROPPO SMEMORABILE E CONFUSO. NESSUNA TRACCIA MI È RIMASTA IN TESTA E IL CANTATO MI URTA LEGGERMENTE. I SUONI IN SOTTOFONDO BENEH. 2/5

Normal

It's like really bad shoegaze. Ugh.

Really interesting electronic layers. The vocals almost become part of the rhythm. Nice sound.

Experimental Psychedelic Electronica album feels like straining my ears through a constant wall of sound, trying to pick out individual instruments and melodies while another layer keeps appearing before I can grasp any. Synths, percussion, samples, bass and reverb are continually piled together, while the vocals float somewhere inside the mix rather than giving me a clear point to hold onto. The repetition keeps the whole thing moving, but instead of letting me settle anywhere, I find myself concentrating on separating the sounds from one another. Even when the music becomes more melodic, the density never really disappears, so listening feels like constantly straining to hear through something that is already too loud and too full. Basically it is only overstomulating.

This was awesome. I’ve heard of Animal Collective before but never really listened to their music. This is very daydreamy

This is a deeply irritating album. Thought I might have somehow activated the “play in reverse” button on Spotify because the whole album has that other worldly peculiar sensation you get when someone talking is played backwards. Impossible to tell when one track ends and the next begins. Not good.

A very good pick for a post 2000s album. I love Animal Collective and believe that the unique qualities they bring to their work would make a big chunk of their discography worth mentioning as must-listens. MPP is probably the correct pick though. It was huge when it dropped and has way more pop appeal than most of their other work leading up to it. It isn’t my favorite album of theirs but it is probably the one I’d recommend first. Summertime Clothes and Brothersport have been in my rotation since it released but really every track has something that is worth revisiting.

This is #day769 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... how about some neo-psychedelic indie schmindie shit from the late '00s? Well, I don't think so, thanks. This is a 2 out of 5. Looking forward to #day770.

This album was interesting, I heard so many weird sounds, some work, some don’t, really experimental, I liked allot of the vocal effects, it’s just, not my cup of tea

Which Merriweather is by the pavilion?

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This is what Yes would be if they came out 40 years later… so it’s a good thing Yes came out when they did. Cuz otherwise they’d kinda suck. Where Yes had Wakeman and Howe going nuts and being virtuosos this is all bleeps and bloops.

I bounced so hard I didn't even know what hit me

YES YES

My Girls Summertime Clothes Brother Sport

33

I swear I've listened to this a few times before but I can't remember doing so. Anyways decent album, would go hard on a real good speaker set up. Fell into the background at points near the end, where it got repetitive but whatever. 8/10

Some interesting music but can’t get past those vocals.

Passes you by with barely a tickle of interest. Pretty poor.

Interesting experimental music. It's not bad. He has a great voice.

At times it's as if Tangerine Dream were the backing band for the Beach Boys. Sort of "non-songs" with layer after layer of synths and samples behind some quite lush vocal harmonies. The result is a dense sound that teeters on the edge of chaos. Needs a bit of work to listen to, but certainly rewarding.

This album is a trip. Musicianship is off the charts as the songs weave in and out of each other. But frankly it’s kind of a lot. It’s ok to visit but not somewhere I like to stay. A for effort though…Weirdos.

One of my favorite albums of all time. Is it close to the best album on this list? No lol, absolutely not, its not even my favorite Animal Collective album, but its damn good. 5/5

I really enjoyed this album. I listened to Strawberry Jam back in the 2000s and liked it but never really continued. This is my first listen and I love it. It really is a lush and rich sound they produce. It kind of sounds like a Wes Anderson movie. Really really good!

The highs are really quite high on this one, but there are a few nondescript offerings scattered throughout. Enjoyed it and not all 3s are built equally particularly without .5s. Much better than yesterday - feel good and interesting

This album has been lauded forever, I have listened to it multiple times and I still don’t get it. It’s so intensely compressed and the synths are so in your face to the point it’s almost ear piercing in a bad way. The songs are never catch enough and the vibe is never good enough for me to walk away thinking this is an album worth coming back to.

5/5 free space

Can’t figure this one out. Still not sure what I’m really listening to. Doesn’t grab me at all. Tried to listen to the bigger songs a few times and still not for me. 2.75

This is a great album and also a great representation of late 2000s indie pop, it got moments of beautiful orchestration, good percussion and a lot of experimentation. The latin/african references are great, like the brazillian berimbau on "Lion on Coma". The only caveat is how some synths are so outdated and feels obnoxious nowadays.

hehehe if u look at the album cover, it moves, hehhee

If this is experimental pop, then go back to the drawing board. If this is experimental electronica, that data is trending positive but inconclusive.

A masterpiece of indie electronic pop, blending neo-psychedelic and shameless enormous hooks on every single song. No skip, 10/10

This album seemed like something I would enjoy, but I found it so irritating I could not wait for it to be over. Hard to say why. Maybe it is overproduced or maybe I just wasn’t in the mood.

This like is a continuation of the Beach Boys, exactly picking up where they left off. It's whimsical acid pop - with Mike Love-esque vocals - which has a very dense atmosphere to it, there's so many little parts in a song; they definitely needed LSD to come up with all these intricacies. When I imagine this album in my head I think of a metallic white soundproof chamber room, with the air distorting from all the sound endlessly bouncing off of each other. I sadly couldn't 'get' this album that well, even though weirdly this sounds like something I'd be into though. It's all good though. I think this was very interesting and I like how it does stuff their way. Oh, and the trippy album cover that I literally thought was a GIF at first. Highlight Song/s: "My Girls" and "Bluish"

I didn't want to like it when it came out. Initially it sounded like it was going to be all just radio-friendly indie. I'm generally not into pop and this just felt like it was going to be that my; forgettable. I really grew to like it though. It wasn't until reading a few of the reviews here before I finally heard the Beach Boys influence. And it's 100% true in those vocal harmonies too. It's inventive and catchy. Takes chances here and there and is generally rewarded for them. It's a 4 for me.

The boomers aren't gonna love this one

Okay, but repetitive.

While I can praise the unique sound of this album that undoubtedly influenced that indie electric sound, this is also one of the more unique takes of the genre. However listening to a whole album was a jarring process almost immediately and I'm quite glad that it is over.

experiencia interesante

It’s got an interesting vibe of a sound. However I frequently felt like there was one too many layer of sound going on. But who knows maybe I’m just not in the right state of mind for it.

I feel like I've tried so many times to get into this album and every time I do I hear the beginning of 'In the Flowers' and think "oh I could get into this!" and then I go "uggh" by the time Panda Bear calls "a social status" a material thing on 'My Girls' and then the rest feels like a total slog. Bonus point for closing on the album's best song, 'Brother Sport'.

Ovo su mi neki od najiritantnijih albuma. Samo neki zvuk. Može li se uopšte reći muzika? A čim sam vidjela optičku iluziju na coveru znala sam da me nešto ovako čeka.

Fun album, I loved the vibe on this, soooo psychedelic. Sometimes though I wish there was more of a hook to some of these songs. Anyway, the sounds and bleeps and synths on this album were just really really great. Favourite songs: My Girls, Guys Eyes, Brother Sport

Pretty good but didn't really do it for me. Extra points for originality I guess? 3.5

Its a masterpiece. It is the instigator of curiosity for experimentation and layers. Before this album I did not know that music could be done this way. I have listened to this album multiple times since it came out and every time I hear a new sound.

My general philosophy is to meet an album where it’s at. You can’t blame a dance album for being repetitive. You can’t judge the mixing on a punk album. You can’t expect a pop album about partying to discuss geopolitics. Sadly, it’s difficult to meet this album where it’s at, because where it’s at is shrooms and LSD. Even though the band members were sober in its making, all their previous albums were rooted in their use of psychedelics, and primarily meant to listen to while on psychedelics, and that’s still the case here. And as much as I want to review things well, I will most definitely not be taking acid. Luckily, there are some moments where you can sort of simulate the experience. If not through mind-altering drugs, then through some pleasant moments where the bright synths and playful lyrics feel crushingly joyful and cinematic. I found those moments in these places: -Listening to the album while putting make-up on before a party. -Listening while half-asleep on the subway. -Listening through my low-quality iPhone speaker while taking a hot shower. -Listening while petting my dog. -Listening at 3 am. -Listening while drinking a cup of fancy cherry vanilla green tea and eating an ultra-buttery Sam’s Club croissant. And yes, I listened to this thing probably 10+ times, because I kept getting interrupted while listening, or didn’t feel like I paid enough attention. It was kind of cursed in that way. Thankfully, I loved this album. I have to note that I’m actually very frustrated about the overall reviews this album has on this website. Given the nature of the 1001 albums generator, I thought people here would be more open-minded, or at least willing to dislike stuff in a way that isn’t just “this is weird and complex! Ew!” Ultimately, I don’t care what your opinion on this album is, but most of these reviews just show an unwillingness to engage or listen critically. But I digress. This album feels like childhood—running through heatwaves to reach the ice cream truck and jumping into lakes from a rope swing. The name of the album actually came from a music venue of the same name, which—not to dox myself—is pretty close to where I live, and I’ve been there for concerts. It’s honestly a great venue for the kind of feeling described in this album: it’s outdoors, with an open grassy area behind the rows of seats. It’s one of the few places nearby where you can get cheap tickets, as the grass tickets are genuinely cheaper than going to shows at bars now. There were $30 tickets to see the Beach Boys there, for example (though that might’ve been because nobody wants to get near Mike Love.) Families go and lay out picnic blankets, and it’s very festival-like. Lots of little kids, young couples, boxes of pizza, and beach balls. People bring the same fold-out chairs they do to little league baseball games. It has that suburban summer feel, which is very much the same thing this album encompasses. The album can sometimes feel like something set out in the sun too long. An oozing strawberry. The sweet scent of moldy bread. Sucralose and Red 40. Not necessarily because there’s any sort of negative emotion introduced, but because of the nature of nostalgia and human memory. It’s either expired, artificially preserved, or made hazy in some way. This effect makes the songs all the more potent. There’s a barely-contained joyousness as well. Lyrics like “I’m getting lost in your curls.” “Everything around seemed to giggle in glee.” “I want to walk around with you!” “There isn’t much that I feel I need.” The lyricism is sensual and diary-like. Its exact phrasing doesn’t always make sense, but it doesn’t really need to. It’s smudged out by the heatwaves. The few moments of inner turmoil don’t feel all that sad, either. “Also Frightened,” for example, has a comforting quality that resolves its underlying anxiety when placed between “My Girls” (the best song on the album!) and “Summertime Clothes.” And the existential nature of “Taste” is made more curious than soul-crushing through the anecdote of laughing with a friend, as well as the friend saying he doesn’t want fancy clothes because “you can’t eat those.” That’s another element of the album: rejection of the material world. The narrator doesn’t care about “material things,” and has only simple needs in the physical realm. Despite most of the talk about this regarding adult things, like wanting a house, it is rather childlike: content with happiness and the natural world. It adds to the psychedelic, detached feel of the album. Sonically, it’s highly processed. There are countless layers of synth, and no guitar. The band ran everything separately through a PA system to replicate their live sound, which they then sampled, layered, and manipulated. The only acoustic instrumentation is drums, which were heavily processed after their initial recording. The synths have a shimmer over them, and tend to float in the high-ends, soaked in reverb. The vocal melodies are simple, and border on monotone, and instead focus on rhythm and simply being catchy. It works, too. Normally, I don’t like when albums lean heavily on production above all else, but this is a case where it’s a clear artistic choice rather than a crutch. If there was ever an album perfect for listening during the summer, it’s this one. It’ll make you feel like a dog sleeping under a beam of light: content, comforted, and perhaps a little bit lazy.

Playful and uplifting

Here’s a band that picked up one effect from a Beatles album and made a whole sound out of it. The enigineered chorus sound (in a tightly constricted dynamic range) laying over creative psychedelic instrumentals is explored to full effect here. Don’t get me wrong— I liked it; it’s good, just a bit “one note,” so to speak. A 3.

Don’t like it