People really like Animal Collective! How do I know this? Well, any post that happens to have the words “animal,” “collective,” and “leak” in them does really well for us, Google-wise, even if said post happens to be talking about something wholly unrelated to Merriweather Post Pavilion making its way out to the Internet. (It hasn’t yet! Don’t worry!) But today there’s even stronger evidence that there are bros out there who are are, like, Tokio Hotel fan levels of mental about this band, thanks to a Brooklyn Vegan post that mentioned a password-protected ticket sale for an upcoming Animal Collective show at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. And if you thought that password was going to be given out lickety-split to the commenting masses, well, you must not know any real music snobs.
Usually, we use The Last Word to collect the closing bon mots from the week’s biggest record reviews. But last night’s listening party for the new album by Animal Collective–Merriweather Post Pavilion, which doesn’t come out until the calendar flips to 2009–seemed worthy of a spin through Google, at the very least. A few takeaways from the event after the jump.
There was some controversy around the role of indie labels in MySpace Music (the digital distribution center that was going to change the music world as we know it!); those labels wouldn’t receive the same equity in the site’s profits as the majors, essentially bringing the same stratification that exists in the old-time music business to the new music economy. MySpace still isn’t offering equity to those labels, but it did manage to sign an indie collective featuring such high-profile names as Animal Collective and… Chairlift?
The designer speaks: “neither weed nor Photoshop… More »
Maura is making me bury the cover for Animal Collective’s forthcoming Merriweather Post Pavilion after the jump because its optical-illusion undulation gives her headaches. Truth be told, it’s another in a series of crappy Animal Collective album covers. (I eagerly anticipate someone in the comments changing that last statement to “a series of crappy Animal Collective albums.” Y’all are so predictable.)
Today’s the last day of first-round voting in our Worst Album Cover Of The Year Tournament, and we turn our attentions back to the Southeast Bracket, where Brad Paisley’s “just hangin’ on the highway” photo that serves as the cover for 5th Gear is matched up against Animal Collective’s stomach-turning jacket for Strawberry Jam–which, come to think of it, kind of looks like a depiction of Brad after his long stroll down the highway results in him being flattened by a charging semi. But which one is more aesthetically offensive? That’s up to you.
Behold: The cover for Animal Collective’s Strawberry Jam. Let me guess: It’s supposed to look like it’s leaking, right? Wokka wokka! More »
Last night, the following email blast went out to a bunch of music writers: SUBJECT: Animal watermark warningHello friends – Sorry to write this one….but….. Last week three tracks from Animal Collective’s new album leaked. Within minutes we were able to track the leak to an writer’s CD. More »
