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Is Merriweather Post Pavilion The Best Album Of 2009?

Jan 5, 11:52am stereogum
Is Merriweather Post Pavilion The Best Album Of 2009? Looks like it. Sounds like it, too, if you spent your holiday with Animal Collective's latest on repeat like most everybody with torrent expertise. The album's out tomorrow but a couple reviews are already in, and they are glowing. SPIN went four-star style in a review from Andy Beta : From [opening thumper "In The Flowers"] forward, these stalwart innovators ... elude all experimental-noise, freak-folk, and indie-rock tags, and create a startling, pounding, effulgent sonic template.... Call it searching for the perfect peak. Merriweather plays like the summation of a long, strange trip, combining [...]
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