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Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective have taken the melodic tones of previous effort Strawberry Jam, the sunny, beachy colors of Panda Bear’s ethereal solo album, and the liquid sounds of 2008′s Water Curses EP and built them into something more accessible, dizzying, and entertaining than any album they’ve ever made before – a captivating hour of shimmering synths, pounding beats, gorgeous harmonizing, and (gasp!) amazingly catchy hooks.

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of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping

of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping

October 21, 2008
Polyvinyl
Rating: 4.5 / 5

The Music Rag One Sentence Review: Unbeknownst to most music fans, all four Beatles reunited briefly in 1977 and went to Studio 54 with David Bowie, where they engaged in a sweaty, 300 person, bisexual orgy with a bunch of coked-up disco freaks, during which a woman became pregnant – of Montreal’s Skeletal Lamping was what that woman pushed out of her vagina nine months later.

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