Animal Collective-Merriweather Post Pavilion

[Milu]

I have been looking at the lyrics to this album, and I really think they have some poetic merit. Their sound may be a bit too..experimental...for some musical palates. However, their lyrics are really cool. I like the song because many people over the ages have compared life to dancing, however they do it in a fresh innovative way. I also like the surrealism and distorted sound of it. Here's some lyrics off the album:

In Flowers

Met a dancer
Who was high in a field
From her movement
Caught my breath on my way home
Couldn't stop that spinning force
I felt in me
Everything around seemed to giggle glee
She walked up with a flower and I cared

Got a dancer
Who gets wild to the beats of record rhythms
But I'm always away for weeks
That pass slow my
Mind gets lost
Feeling envy for the kid who'll dance despite anything
I walk out in the flowers and feel better

If I could just leave my body for the night:

Then we could be dancing
No more missing you while I'm gone
There we could be dancing
And you'd smile and say, "I like this song"
And when our eyes will meet there
We will recognize nothings wrong
And I wouldn't feel so selfish
I won't be this way very long

To hold you in time
To hold you in time
To hold you in time
To hold you in time

While we were dancing
Early hours
Drunken days finally ended
And the streets turned for a pillowcase
Then I fumbled our good lock
Then the ecstasy turns to rising light
Through our windowpane
Now I'm gone
I left flowers for you there

Shhh
You're a dancer
I'm a dancer

Link to song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY8WH8qgBLM

[Nash]

Hello Milu,

Good to meet you!

That was pretty good actually, I used to be quite partial to a bit of pyschedelia. Reminds me a bit of White Noise, have you come across them before?

[Milu]

Nice to meet you too! I have heard of them before, but I haven't listened to them. After listening to it, for lack of a more poetic way of saying it, I think they're pretty friggin awesome. The lyrics are really dreamy and abstract, but the vocals match the dreaminess.

They kind of reminded me of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, in a weird way. I have a pretty tangential mind so everything reminds me of everything

Here's one of their songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV83U4CDAx4 (it takes awhile to get off its feet, but it's totally worth it).

Thank you for the warm welcome!

[Nash]

Oh, I like that a lot Milu, I've never heard of them before.

I was thinking to myself that it reminded me of 28 days later, turns out that they did contribute to the film score!

Thanks very much for that, always good to find new music.

Nash.