Fall Be Kind EP
Two weeks ago, Animal Collective released the Fall Be Kind EP.
Taking top honors for SPIN’s 2009 Top Album List, Merriweather Post Pavilion seemed like the best piece of work the band would put out this year. However, the Fall Be King EP builds off of a lot of the sounds and styles and offers another enjoyable, experimental psych-pop experience (can’t get enough of those!)
What Would I Say? Sky has been favorite track on the EP, with a cool Grateful Dead sample and an amazing shift from psychedelic noise to low key melody.
Check the song out here! (mp3 courtesy of Audio Muffin)
you can purchase the album via amazon
Hey all. I recently discovered Nurses, an indie band based in Portland. This song, Caterpillar Playground is one of my favorites right now. The whistling is really awesome and the tune and main chorus is very unique and innovative. They kind of are a mixture between Animal Collective and MGMT, and maybe some Grizzly Bear.
have a listen!
Wolfgang Amadeus Remix
so much activity on the Mill blog - i love it.
here are 2 fantastic remixes off a recently released mixtape of Phoenix’s 2008 summer jam-filled Album
Rome (Neighbors Remix with Devendra Banhart) - a nice trance effort by Neighbors with Devendra Banhart adding some funky echoes to Phoenix’s vocals
Love Like a Sunset (Animal Collective’s Remix - Deakin’s Jam) - Animal Collective adds their signature sound to this epic track, with catchy piano hooks, sporadic percussion and trippy vocals. They cut the song in half, while maintaining the huge build up of the song.
It’s nice to see remixes not having to have pulsating bass and flashy synths!
Also check out remixes by Passion Pit, Friendly Fires, and Chairlift!
SORRY! SORRY! I haven’t posted in sooo long, I know, but this will make up for it. This is Rubik, a Finnish band that I have been drooling over for about a month. Comparisons to Animal Collective, Arcade Fire and the less popular but still amazing Mice Parade can be made, but I think this song Fire Age stands on it’s own as one of the most elated, uplifting, and Scandanavian songs I have heard this summer. I love how it sort of teases you at first, adding and taking away layers, and then it just lets you have it all at once. THE CHORUS! THE MELODY! THE XYLOPHONE! Listen to it on the first day of school for me- no more of those for this old lady.
WAIT SORRY Fire Age was too big to post, so heres No Escape instead. But go to here for Fire Age: http://hypem.com/#/track/797720/Rubik-Fire+Age
I promise I will post more often.
Animal Collective has done it again. This is their video for “Summertime Clothes” off of Merriweather Post Pavillion…probably my second favorite song on the album (it changes weekly though, depending on my mood) and this video is TOTALLY AWESOME- those balloon people?? seriously? These guys only get more and more creative as time goes on…
PS- multiple sources tell me they absolutely killed it at Bonnaroo, and I quote, “Totally worth the bizarre sunburn pattern I will have on my back for the rest of the summer”
Animal Collective @ Terminal 5 5/13/09
Listening to their early material, a mix-up of sound experiments and
tribal chanting freak-outs (an acquired taste, for sure) you would
never expect Animal Collective to adopt an almost jam band aesthetic to
their live set. But that’s just what it felt like. Reworking older
numbers to fit the harmonious, deep-bass grooves prevelant on their new
album, the set flowed like a masterful DJ set. Jamming for almost 2
hours straight with no interruption, their catchy harmonies melded
together with every other voice as the packed house rode the psychedlic
waves along with the group. Best live show of the year so far.
Perpetual envelope-pushers, we can’t wait to see what these guys roll
out with next.
