Blog: Idolator

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. • "The record's got the layered harmonies of Panda Bear's solo turn, but not the bubblegum pop, opting instead for the stoned [...]