I saw Animal Collective play for a sold-out House Blues in Boston a few days ago. It has been suggested that Merriweather Post Pavillon, their latest release, can be considered their “pop” album, and this was certainly confirmed by the venue and the crowd. But when they started playing, I was struck by the disconnect between the pure weirdness coming out of the speakers, the venue and the ecstatic crowd. The played Who Could Win a Rabbit, for example, off their 2004 album Sung Tongs, and it would be a stretch to consider that specific song (traditional) pop music (listen below). But the crowd didn’t care – they just went nuts for the weirdness. And so did I – great show!
Another suggestion that weird might be coming back, comes from one of my favorite purveyors of weird, David Lynch, who is apparently lending visuals and vocals to a project called Dark Night of the Soul with Danger Mouse and a number of other collaborators, including Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse, Nina Persson of the Cardigans and Iggy Pop. Considering the fact that the project has now run into legal problems, you might want to hurry up and listen to it here. And for those of you who doubt that Mr. Lynch can sing, here is the song Ghost of Love from the Inland Empire soundtrack, vocals and lyrics by David Lynch.
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Hey, Pete! Thanks for the link to “Dark Night of the Soul” – it sounds really interesting!
I have only really listened to the two David Lynch songs so far, and in my opinion they are truly amazing.
btw: the “lala” widget cant be used in europe – it wont let me register an account
Okay, does that mean you can’t play the songs from my blog, or just that you can’t set up a user for yourself? About Dark Night of the Soul, I have listened to it a bit more, and it’s pretty good. The two songs with Suzanne Vega and Nina Persson are by far the weakest, so maybe the girls should just have let the boys play alone this time. On the other hand, the rest is pretty good, although none of the musicians here do as well as non-musician David Lynch. There’s a song with Wayne Coyne (“Revenge”) in there as well, that was not on the NPR site, and it actually sounds better than most of the tracks off the latest Flaming Lips record.
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