Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
I disagree with your idea that Merriweather was intended to be a humanistic electronic record. I think rather that it took the sort of Brian Wilson, sixties wall of sound pop that so much indie bands focus on and transcended it by playing pop-based tunes with samplers and various effects processors. I find it to be the opposite of regressive. If anything it sounds like a futuristic pop record in my head. The Beach Boys of the electronic age. As opposed to trying to bring a summery, human element to electronic music.
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Album Rating: 4.5
And by that right, I suppose it does seem a little contrived, but it works so well. This is nowhere near their opus in my opinion, but I'm in the minority on that one, so. I think my largest problem with this album is how quickly it became unimportant to me emotionally; the music still remains overly enjoyable though.
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Album Rating: 5.0
The correlation score of comparing this to Cosmogramma is 0.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Didn't read to see where that comparison was made, but I agree entirely. I wouldn't go as far as to say that it sounds futuristic, but further more I don't see how it's eclectic structure is a problem.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Not to mention that they both have extensive use of sampling and sound manipulation.
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Album Rating: 4.5
You'd be trying a little too hard to pull it off, and its comparison would still remain entirely irrelevant. Whereas Cosmogramma is an electronica album, this is more pop oriented
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this album is overrated
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Album Rating: 4.0
that's an idiotic way of saying you don't like it
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"... records produced by bands like Vampire Weekend or Architecture in Helsinki, would then seem stand"
shouldn't that be seem to stand
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why is that a bad reason to not like it
overrated means that people say it is amazing when it is in fact mediocre
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walkina round in my summernight clothes
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Album Rating: 4.5
illmitch: Were you aware of the praise this received before you heard it? I find that often detracts from the value of an album, as your expectations were likely set too high.
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i was a big animal collective fan before this album came out, loved it when i first heard it, then realized that apart from a few tracks its not too good
i generally put little to no faith in the music taste of this site
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Album Rating: 4.5
Well, it's all subjective, but I personally connected with this album on an emotional level, which at first made me appreciate it more than I would have otherwise. After a while it does seem tepid in sections. I still maintain that Spirit They've Gone, Spirit They've Vanished is their opus, and I'm definitely in the minority here.
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nah i agree with you there
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Album Rating: 4.5
Really? Cheers, mate.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
you know something Kiss Kiss and Beethoven use violins lets compare them too
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
hey and arcade fire and godsmack both use drum beats
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Album Rating: 3.5
album is b(l)and
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
special technique.....fuck that....(turntable scratch)special technique.....goddamn....the GZA
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