Album Rating: 4.0

hollinndagain rules

For some reason coming back to these guys after a very long time has made this and other work sound so much better.

Album Rating: 5.0

I listened to this and Strawberry Jam both on my commute today, and I am just baffled at how flawless both are. There's not a weak moment here, and the nostalgia......unbelievable that it's over ten years old.

Album Rating: 5.0

Fanboying hard

Album Rating: 4.5

I'm with you, these guys are responsible for some of the best music I've ever heard. Melodically, emotionally, and sonically just exceptional. A lot of people dismiss them outright... let's hope their genius is acknowledged twenty years from now.

"A lot of people dismiss them outright..."
Umh, no? I mean, I do, but most people don't, I think.

Album Rating: 2.0

I want to know what constitutes dismissing something ‘outright’ and how one could tell.

Album Rating: 4.5

I’ve met a looooot of people who heard My Girls or maybe Peacebone and were like “nah indie garbage” and dug no further.

But they have a lot of praise in basically every single music site.

Album Rating: 2.0

Indie is a wide spectrum, so dismissing AC on that basis is ignorant and I could see that it would be irksome. They don’t write the sort of music I find palatable, but it’s just my personal taste... this sounds like it was made to annoy me, haha.

Album Rating: 5.0

Brother Sport might be the best cut here.

Album Rating: 5.0

The best summer album of all time, even though it ironically released in the dead of one of the most brutally cold and snowy winters in my lifetime. I was in high school at the time, we went maybe a single full week in January, and most of my memories with these songs are set with mountains of snow, lots of weed and pizza, and trying Salvia

Album Rating: 4.5

Brother Sport and Daily Routine

I never clicked with this group. Every time I tried to get into them in the past, I always came out just thinking how majorly overrated all of it is.

But now, I'm gonna try and give them a final chance. Maybe they'll finally appeal to me. Any recs other than this album or recs of what order to listen to their stuff?

Album Rating: 5.0

my feeling is that you should listen to sung tongs, feels, strawberry jam, and then this in that chronological order to see their crazy development. at the very least you'd have to come away with a begrudging respect for the fact that they switched it up like absolute madmen from year to year with no real regard for sonic continuity while sticking with their experimental bona fides, their sense of childlike fun, whatever. then again you might be like, i dunno, robert christgau or someone else who follows their trajectory and remains relatively unmoved by their songwriting. four albums might be a tall order but yea yea idk



i'd also personally throw person pitch by panda bear in there but yknow, whatever

Reading your reasoning makes that sound like the best way to approach this group's music so I think I'll do that. All this time at home is giving me time to dive into AC and Modest Mouse. Thanks for the recs!

I was planning on checking out Person Pitch out of curiosity.

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah AC definitely has a Big Four imho. I like this one the best and consider strawberry jam the weakest of the bunch but they're all great. does sort of feel like a weird skeleton key to 00s indie even though I genuinely think animal collective were striking out on their own path. also a lot of people really ride hard for the debut Spirit They're Gone Spirit They've Vanished so if you end up changing your mind about the band ccheck that bad boy out

Album Rating: 5.0

sorta hilarious to me that I saw animal collective at merriweather post pavilion and they were STILL an opening act (to fleet foxes, but still! they named their damn album after you, to the letter! give em some sugar!)

Album Rating: 4.5

That’s weird. I guess it depends on when the show was but I would think those to could co-headline. Kind of an odd pair though.

Album Rating: 5.0

True!