noah | January 14, 2009 9:30 am

“We need them to be ‘considered good/relevant’ so that we can be ‘considered good/relevant.’ Now that they have ‘made it’, webzines/blogs/pitchforks can pat themselves on the back because this is our child. We raised them. We pulled them from the womb of the obscurity, raised them, fed them, nourished them, created them, loved them, used them, experienced them, grown with them, and now they have grown to have an alledged impact on modern society.” Hipster Runoff discusses how the praised-to-the-skies psych outfit Animal Collective “is a band created by/for/on the Internet,” and it’s probably one of the better deconstructions of that band’s hothouse popularity that I’ve read yet. [Hipster Runoff]