Reviews (page 8 of 8)
Not sure why this made the list
You know when you yawn during a song and it somehow makes the music sound just a little bit off? Thats what this whole album sounds like. Best: In the Flowers Worst: My Girls
Pyrkimys on lisätä kokonaisuuteen tarpeeksi melodiaa, jotta musiikkityylin faneilla olisi tekosyy yliarvostaa eksperimentaatiota. Välillä bändi lähentelee onnistumista, mutta en mahda itselleni mitään, tyyli vain ärsyttää, enkä pysty kuuntelemaan enemmän kuin on pakko. 2-
Monotonous
I couldn’t wait for this to end
The coolest thing about this album was the cover, which did impress me with the weird, shifting leaf motif. That was it. The music sounds like a Beach Boys tribute band, but without any soul, no hooks, nothing but repetitive and boring rounds of singing with stuff going on in the background. This is the kind of album I would imagine playing to clear the room, as it seems to set itself out to deliberately be annoying. One dismal star I'm afraid.
Another new one. Kinda like noise mixed with MGMT and Temu Pink Floyd... a little Beach Boys (Also Frightened.) I cant say I enjoyed it though. I was keen to have this one over with after the first two tracks (the second having 61mil listens).
I couldn’t even make it half way through this turd. WTF is this? Lol
I still don't get why hipsters fucking loved this band
I didn't even finish this. Why is this on here? What is so great about this album that it deserves to be on this list. boring.
An overhyped experiment that mostly feels like being trapped on a musical carousel you can’t get off. The album drowns in high-pitched vocals, endless repetition, and layers upon layers of sounds that never really go anywhere. It plays more like a chaotic noise collage than anything melodic or dynamic. I actually found myself getting annoyed as it went on, and that rarely happens when I listen to music. 1/5
Utrolig irriterende. Vet ikke hva man må gå på for å høre på dette, men det er neppe billig...
Fuck this band
By far my favourite part of the past hour was when my earphones disconnected from my phone for no reason
Got on my tits very quickly
the reason indie gets a bad rap
Worse than Coldplay.
Insupportable.
Did not get this at all
This is truly awful, probably the worst I've had in 911 albums.
Didn’t do anything for me and I don’t understand why would have such a big impact.
Too psychedelic for me
Strange alternative band. No songs I’m crazy about.
1. flouuerz - 1.5 2. girlz - 1 3. frightened - 1.5 4. clothez - 1 5. routine - 1.5 6. bluizh - 1 7. eyez - 1 8. tazte -1 9. coma - 0 10. running - 1 11. brother - 0
Hard to pay attention to and when I did I was annoyed. Pretentious. The loops were boring, just some synth sounds. No hooks or even melody to the vocals. Felt like a pisstake of MGMT. It felt like they were trying way to hard and forgot they were making music along the way.
I am genuinely surprised this album made the list. It feels like it is scraping the lower end of the 1001 for me. I understand that Animal Collective are deliberately aiming for something different and boundary pushing. There is clearly ambition here. But as a listening experience it just does not land. The songs feel repetitive and cluttered, with layers of sound competing rather than complementing each other. Instead of creating atmosphere, it becomes an indistinct blur. At times there are glimpses of something interesting underneath the noise, but the production feels so overloaded that it buries any real hook or emotional connection. It simply did not click with me. Favourite song: No More Runnin was decent enough and the most listenable for me. Least favourite: Daily Routine was particularly hard work. Guys Eyes had potential, but the clashing layers turned it into a chaotic mess. Album artwork: Very cool. The optical illusion cover is easily one of the most memorable aspects of the whole package
Made for Pitchfork journalists.
Non fa per me
I didn’t finish this. Life is too short
DO NOT WANT.
As a lifelong fan of indie/alt rock, I should not only like this album, I should love it. In the indie rock snob world this album might as well be sergeant fucking pepper. But I do not like this album. Couldn't wait for this tunelessness to be over
En kakofoni av ljud/oljud. Nix, det är inget bra och bara påfrestande att lyssna på.
I almost considered quitting listening to this list because of this album. But I'll be strong.
1. I have a general bias against electro-music, so it’s a no from me.
31/12/24 I honestly wanted this album to end quicker than it did.
Electro-pop at its worst. How people can describe this as "psychedelic" is beyond me. I can only assume that they have been sold inferior acid.
Didn't like it in 2009, don't like it now
one of those experimental collection of noises albums I just wanted to finish
fucking dire
These electronic albums all sound the same to me
I waivered about giving this album a 2. There were small parts of these songs that I enjoyed, but very shortly after that it would get overwhelming and weird again. Felt like discount MGMT.
Ei toimi yhtään tämä ulina.
Sounds like the Beach Boys on acid. Way, way too much acid. One halfway decent track, Summertime Clothes, but otherwise an effect-heavy mess, much of it barely music. Not much enjoyment to be found here.
Not for me
It's the tribute band known as the Boring Beach Boys. At least to me. Really really really tedious. Each song is one idea over and over and over. And each song is that same idea. An album of one idea. Over and over.
The only interesting thing about this album was the optical illusion on the cover.
I did not care for this one... maybe being high is the pre-requisite. Messy, confusing and too long.
DNL
Way too much work to listen to this. No thanks
I did not enjoy
Indie pop? Indie rock? Experimental? I don't know what to call this music. It sure is a unique sound they have made throughout the album. While it was an experience its not something that appeals to me.
Nothing makes me want to listen to music less than when it is deemed "experimental pop". This album goes a long way toward confirming that bias.
When you like the music in the ads better than the actial album you are listining you know tha music is 💩
Yeah this shit sucks hahah
There is nothing here that is anywhere remotely worth my time.
Not for me. Thought it was terrible
Not my thing
This one is going to the dungeon. The first song almost tricked me that this might be alright, then my girls came on and it's all down from there. Cool, you want house, really makes you think. Will I listen to again: 0%
This album irritates me. It's weird, I know, but the urge to skip this was immense.
This album has two fans, people who abuse psychedelics and hipsters with a superiority complex who pretend to like this shit to seem unique and cool. You know that old wives tale about your cousins mate who did too much acid and fried his brain into permanently thinking he's an orange? This is what I imagine was playing during that dudes trip, and not in a good way. Summertime Clothes is the only enjoyable song on the album, I came back to listen a second time for that song (it's actually good) - but it doesn't redeem the rest of the album, which is tainted, annoying, uninspired, hipster garbage. Standout awful tracks include: Daily Routine, where I thought I was actually enjoying the song until it just suddenly turned into 2 minutes of dumb noise effects. Just end the song dude. Taste, where the singer decides to repeat the same thing for over 30% of the song. Yeah sick dude we get it. Brother Sport, where I couldn't even understand what the fuck the vocalist was saying, it sounded like a completely different language. This album doesn't need to be an hour, most of the songs runtime on this thing are littered with repeating vocals or annoying long drawn synths that go on for ages. It was a dread listening to this and I hope I never have to be subjected to it ever again.
Not a bit fan of pop music or experimental sound, so this was a pretty big miss for me.
Oh.... no. Not for me. Really unpleasant and discordant.
Not really my thing
did not enjoy
Just can't make it
Wacky, lots of sounds, but to me sounds scratchy and chaotic. Not my thing.
Da fehlt mir das Verständnis und die avantgardische Ader. Ich höre nichts.
I still don't get this album. It's like adults making music with kids toys.
Not a big fan didnt like most of the songs, they were pretty boring, wasn’t appealing
I had heard of them before but had never listened to them. Now I never will again.
Repetitive electric noise.
that got boring, then unbearable very quickly
Nope If you want this stuff, try Mercury Rev debut and Mercury prize winner
I guess I don't like Animal Collective.
About a year ago I watched a video of two guys doing a bracket of the best indie songs of all time. In the end My Girls by Animal Collective won out. Intrigued, I excitedly listened to the GOAT indie song that I've been missing out on. That was when I realized the people making the video had terrible taste. My opinion has not changed after listening to this album in full.
The Beach Boys' Smile run through a colour photocopier a few times. It's pleasant enough, and they make an interesting racket, but nothing really stuck. It feels like they hit upon a distinctive sound and made everything that way. Which is fine if that sound resonates with you I guess, but this got very samey very quickly, and the songs didn't really grab me.
Terrible
Although I can hear why some like it or find it interesting, it just doesn’t do much for me.
"Oh, is it over? Thank Christ."
Nope. Not for me. Not even a little. It was like the same song for 14 tracks.
Nope. Music should soothe, not jar. Anyone who produces music that jars is just being a knob.
Not for me
Som att spela tre olika Håkan Hellström album samtidigt över varandra.
pretentious bullshit...
I made it through the first 3 tracks before I gave up. I was surprised when there was almost a hint of an actual song buried in the third track, but it wasn't enough to keep me listening. This poor excuse for music apparently got near-universal acclaim. Once again I find myself at odds with critics. Whatever they see in this, I sure don't get it. Inexplicably to me, Pitchfork and Slant Magazine rated the second track here as the "Best Song of 2009". That's right, the same year Jay-Z released Empire State of Mind, this rubbish was picked over it. Many singles were released in 2009 and somehow this was picked as the best song. To name a few from albums I know fairly well, Pet Shop Boys released 3 singles and Depeche Mode released 4 in 2009. Every single one of those songs is much better than this nonsense. Maybe under the influence of powerful drugs, this actually seemed like a contender. Wikipedia says this album's sound influenced music of the next decade. Maybe that's why I don't like a lot of current music.
Absolut schrecklich
In a nutshell: unmemorable Skip this album and listen to Hot Chip, Art vs Science or Modest Mouse instead. Overall: 1/10
Just don’t get it. Cannot figure out which direction this album wish to take. Getting on my nerves
I was actually getting irritated by this.
Maximalism är svårt. Detta album är, på alla punkter, för mycket. För ambitiöst, för många instrument, för högljutt, för spretigt. Blir sensory overload och syntax error, saknar shrooms. Skulle kunna blivit ett fint album med vissa justeringar och avskalningar. Som sagt, ambition finns, men med sådan här wall of soundig experimentell pop är knivseggen man balanserar på smal. Animal Collective faller tyvärr ned på fel sida.
Irritating
1.5
It was indie music and it was bad. Skip it.
Boring
Chaps, not every song needs to be 5 minutes..... the start of a song shouldn't sound like the middle and the end..... its boring and this is what this album is
No
Never able to feel a groove on this one. Nothing catchy; treble laden. Still trying to discern why this album made the list.
This albums is so bad, it’s so annoying and just bad instrumentation. I really don’t see why people like this.
I feel like my ears have been assaulted.
Pretty ugly vocals …
Dus Katie Melua is zwanger las ik ergens laatst
Horrible
Dit vind ik nou nog eens oprecht vermoeiende kutmuziek. Ongeinspireerd gewauwel over chaotische trippy beats. Misschien leuk voor mensen die zichzelf bere-interessant vinden omdat ze via LSD, paddestoelen en ayahuasca ceremonies 'bepaalde inzichten' hebben gekregen. Ik heb geen septum piercing of tunnels in m'n oren, dus 1 ster.
So not for me.
Really couldn't get into it. I don't understand why it is in this list.
The nicest thing that I could say about this album is randomly discovering the album art was an optical illusion. Unfortunately I thought all the songs were shite.
Hmm, þetta er eitthvað flipp.
Didn’t like any of them besides lion in a coma. Psychedelic pop is not it
UGH jam band stuff.
No me gusta esta psicodelia
i was expecting something a lot more organised than this. bit of a mess really.
Gross. But mainly overly unpleasant.
I have no clue what I've just listened to.
Did not like this.
Poor psychedelic nonsense
Sometimes I worry this list might make me hate music. This is the worst album I've suffered through so far.
Utterly terrible
Experimental but in a bad way
At least the cover art is mildly diverting.
Little strange. Sort of background/mood music
Saved Prior: None Off Rip: My Girls, Also Frightened Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: This album gave me a headache, and I'm not talking about the cover art. Constantly squelching and booping and layering vocals and it doesn't feel like it'll ever end. I feel bad giving it a 1 because at least they tried to do something innovative and influential (and by all accounts it worked) but it made me angry having to sit through it.
For some reason I can’t stand indie stuff from my 20s. This one was hard to sit through. Only my 2nd 1* in 125 albums.
Definitely no.
Not worth the time it takes to listen to it. If you think you like this then you should really listen to something like Age of Adz to see what can be done in this genre. 1 star
Nope!
dead
Already heard it. Will never, ever listen to this again.
Some bits are Sgt Peppers rip offs other Pet Sounds. All done really badly in a jingly indie style
Absolute crap. The half of it that isn't awful noise is twee garbage
Too experimental for my liking. Elements that I enjoy, but not for me
Just weird
Not really my thing at all, just a bit boring. Not awful but just not interested at all. 1/5
This is very arty, not really in a good way. I can see why some people might be into this kind of thing, but it's doing nothing for me.
Awful. Made it through 3 songs before I turned it off. 1/5
uh what?
Very experimental. Which has led me to confirm it is the genre I understand the least. The weird yelling and singing vastly different tones and lines over each other,on top of the eclectic sounds is just confusing to me. I don't really get it and I'm sure this is something that I wouldn't seek out to listen to again. Not to say its all terrible i didn't mind "My Girls" but that was the extent of my enjoyment here.
Yikes
this was wonky crap, just nothing really interesting going, meandering wuss-rock
Favourites: Little girl Manish boy Good songs in the álbum, but really long :( , nice álbum but I get a little bored with some songs.