Blog: Confessions of a Would-Be Hipster

I hate to be the bearer of bad news...but you can't listen to the new Animal Collective forever. Don't get me wrong -- you can and will come back to it. It's a classic, that's not up for debate. But there hasn't been a single documented case of someone listening to it on continuous repeat since tearing off the shiny cellophane disc covering. It's just not going to happen. So, with the specter of AC-related ear fatigue looming, and the new Grizzly Bear album still a dot on the release horizon, where's a geek to go for her sonic ear-quilt [...]