Entertainment - by Joe Coscarelli on Tuesday, October 7, 2008 8:24 - 15 Comments - 13 views
A cryptic website has popped up advertising what seems to be the next Animal Collective LP, Merriweather Post Pavilion, due out in January. While the site is pretty bare right now, we do get a grainy animation of a fish, accompanied by some scratches and blips that, all in all, sound better than Avey Tare’s backwards shitfest and more interesting than Panda Bear’s Person Pitch.
The record is apparently named for the Frank Gehry-designed outdoor concert venue, but Marjorie Merriweather Post is actually a cereal heiress that looks something like this. But as the follow-up to last year’s well-received Strawberry Jam, we can probably expect about a 9.4.
But why waste the domain name fees and web space? I know that music is a hard sell these days, especially for a band whose fans are doubtless internet nerds, but surely a mysterious website as viral marketing doesn’t work.
15 Comments
I saw Weezer at Merriweather Post Pavilion. Animal Collective have no right to name their album after a place where I saw Weezer. Also my brother saw Tom Petty there. This is some offensive shit.
Beau Rutland
But Water Curses showed such mainstream promise! (sort of.)
PS- Person Pitch is so nice!
PSS- Naming your record after a Frank Gehry building is kind of lame. Unless you REALLY really love it, but I sort of doubt that all four members really LOVE it. But who knows, maybe they were at the Tom Petty show and it really moved them???
James Bing
One: It may not be the album title. Nothing’s confirmed yet so don’t write it as fact. Have you even been to the website?
Two: That website’s existed for years. It’s their official website, just updated. Did you get your information from other ill informed posts?
Three: Animal Collective’s guilty of crappy publicity stunts, bad music, and general wankery…but Weezer’s not?
Joe Coscarelli
“cryptic”
“what seems to be”
“apparently named”
“mysterious”
Josh Dibb
die.
jay harsomae
fuck you ac is awesome
and person pitch is gold man
Drew
lol josh
Joe Skinner
Person Pitch is one of the best things anyone from Animal Collective has produced and is also critically acknowledged to be. Anything that draws comparisons to Brian Wilson is nothing short of genius.
Also, the title of this article is one of the worst I’ve seen on this site and reveals a complete disregard for researching the history of this band and it’s genre and how their sound has evolved, and is pretty much a huge slap in the face to the ever-increasing base of artists and supporters of the noise scene in general.
Grade A journalism, as usual.
Chris Cortale
you are a terrible writer. your opinions are shit
From now on all entertainment posts need to be about Animal Collective. Forget about Gawker.
Cody Brown
I must chime in here. I have been a raging Animal Collective fan since I was a freshman in high school. Ever since Here Comes The Indian and Sung Tongs, I have called AC my favorite band. When I was 16 I went so far as to direct a video to Who Could Win a Rabbit (it is on youtube) . Saying all that, I thought Joe’s post was hilarious and you guys need to lighten the hell up. It’s great that you love AC, AC forum, but how much more validation does AC really need? They are Yuge, and when they post a video online of a screeching Billy the Bass, it needs to be made fun of.
Marshall Finch
Animal Collective is from Baltmore, Merriweather is in Columbia, Maryland, about 20 miles south. It’s a local shout-out, I think that’s all there is to it. I’m also going to have to stand up for Person Pitch.
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this is way late but as an ac fan they do make annoying noises sometimes. it’s just a fact. you can like them and not be down with everything fucking thing they’ve ever thought sounded like music. idol worship is not a good look dudes.
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These boys might be masters of dizzying electronic wanking…but its still wanking.