I'ma gonna try

This here blog is dedicated to sharing knowlege of music that I have heard recently. I come across a wide range of genres every day and I don't really have time to tell anyone about all of it. I'm going to try this method. Goal: to tell you about an artist/band a day for one month. I am going to school full time so this may be a bad idea. We'll see.
I got this idea from going on too long about a band on my other blog and I thought I should devote this one to my music musings and make the other one more personal.
This starts my first artist/band post because I'm just going to paste what I said over there on here since I have other shit to do.

Animal Collective, New Album-Merriweather Post Pavilion
I don't know much about the personal lives of the members of the Collective but I do hear some hints to their musical influences in their body of work. Personally I hear the Beach Boys, Slint and the occasional solid hoedown beat coming through when I give Sung Tongs and Feels a listen. In some of their more "noise" based albums like Hollindagain and Here Comes the Indian and even in the melodic percussives of Strawberry Jam it sounds as if every utencil, appliance and common household item comes alive for a few minutes to attempt a conversation that sometimes ends in an argument where there is no winner. That is if your house is filled with disembodied hands clapping at will and vocal chords that take drifting canoe rides at sea not caring if there is a storm a blowin'. All in all I feel like their music has a purpose and a story to tell me. I find it very listenable (mood dependent of course) and have liked 90% of their work.
Merriweather is no different it is very approachable and I think I may like it just as much as I loved Sung Tongs when I first heard it.

Anyway, check it out. I like it. Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion
Click their name above to go to their label wesite.(Paw Tracks)

Or click the album cover to go to a kooky page----->