
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion [Domino; 2009] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars In many ways, Animal Collective's ninth studio album, Merriweather Post Pavilion , epitomizes the way music is consumed in the 21st century. Long before any concrete details were released, pages and pages of posts on various message boards dissected every miniscule piece of information. Animal Collective, despite being extremely well regarded in the indie-rock community, are virtual unknowns to basically everyone else, but for hundreds (and eventually thousands) of pages, fans speculated on everything from how the album's songs [...]