Album Of The Week.

Ok… I know I have been slacking hardcore on posting, but life has been busy since returning to the states. But here is my promise to continue my posts of sharing travel, art and music to the masses. With that I introduce my new album of the week…Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion.

Now I can’t lie, I’m a little bit late on this one considering it was released way back in January, but according to my iTunes I picked up this piece of art back in late May. Nine albums into their career, and Animal Collective have finally struck gold. Not that they struggled to turn up riches before: on the contrary, their career has been pretty fruitful. But Merriweather Post Pavilion finds the group–here represented by three of their four members, Avey Tare, Panda Bear, and Geologist–ditching the gloopy guitars of Strawberry Jam, enlisting a new collaborator (Ben Allen, a US hip-hop engineer who worked on a personal favorite of mine Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy”, who supplies pleasingly thick crests of bass) and embracing a new, sunny dancefloor bounce that owes little to chemical abandon and everything to the warm rush of a natural high.

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Take a minute and enjoy a track stating during the ongoing economic meltdown, “I don’t need to seem like I care about material things like social status/ I just want four walls and adobe slabs for my girls!”

Side Note: How great is that album cover!