One of the cool albums I got for my birthday was Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion. For old timers like me who, when young, ate up Prog Rock like nobody's business. For the last few years I have been able to find updated sounds of Prog Rock through the likes of Built To Spill, The Halo Benders, The Decembrists, and others. Imagine again my happiness to add to the list, the tight, yet dreamy, dope-smokin' sounds of Animal Collective. This is a great song cycle of actually fairly short songs (maybe 6 minutes on average). It reminds me a lot of Yes via their Fragile period. Animal Collective is not real heavy on guitar, but the bass is pretty up-front in that Chris Squire Rickenbacker style jazz playing. It has that nice ringy low tone. There are plenty of polyrythms here too. The other thing that's pretty cool about any of the new Prog Rock sounds of the aforementioned bands including Animal Collective is the indie feel to it. The production standards have the classic indie/punk feel of the DIY attitude. For instance, Animal Collective has that great fuzzy guitar sound I've come to adore in indie rock over the last 20+ years. Lastly, it is imperative to have great album art inner/outer cover and everywhere else (they do). Grab it up, smoke it up, play it up and enjoy yourself.
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