The writeups that accompany La Blog’s always excellent filmed sessions are usually quite charming, if only for their eloquent albeit second-language hyperbole and gushing descriptions of the usually magical recording process. The blurbs for the Animal Collective segments are telling, then, painting a story of an inaccessible band, finally tracked down for a bizarre day of “weird, magical” filming requiring creative editing, a delayed process during which “we even received insults from Animal Collective fans.”
Would you expect anything less?
Here’s the trio (no Deakin) on new song “Taste”:
We need an MP3 of that. If someone could please, rip and send to tips at stereogum dot com? (UPDATE: Thanks guys! Track below.) As thanks, AC’s second Take Awayer “Another White Singer”‘s after the jump.
Read the full story of La Blog’s day with the guys here.
Thanks all for sending in MP3s. We went with this one ’cause it preserves the shopping cart crash at the very end (somehow we think they’d want it that way):
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I always wondered what their Take-Away show would be like. It all fits somehow- I like the filters.
Thanks for the MP3!
um….shit?
I pity anyone who is pretentious enough to consider this good music. Yeah, you’re weird, we get it. Now try to encorporate a melody, ya stinkin punks.
i am a huge animal collective fan, but i have to say i really don’t get this. It’s disappointing that something so highly anticipated turned out to be so lackluster.
Ya. I like them, but this was terrible. Ha, that one guy can’t even keep a straight face.
you guys dont get it at all. Chances are they got together with a camera and fucked around with this one song. In what way is this supposed to be some magnificant film? I thought it was pretty funny, and a cool idea. Its interesting to just see that they can take their effects on the road by using anything. I don’t think its pretentious because i dont think they give a shit about what they’re doing. It’s a bunch of guys putting together sounds to make other interesting sounds.
right on. “taste” was awesome. surely, there were melodies…
i really enjoyed this. forget melodies, the texture of this music is what is awesome. how they can still be this creative with their sounds blows my mind.
Stephen, you’re an idiot. Animal Collective/Avey & Panda are ALL about melodies. In fact, they written some of the most complex, unconventional, but beautiful melodies I’ve ever heard. And they’re not by any means pretentious. They do what they love and don’t care what you think. So shut your mouth unless you know what you’re talking about.
I don’t understand why everyone accuses Animal Collective of being pretentious. I find the music beautiful and moving and it is painful to have people call something that means so much to me hollow.