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going through p2k this week i hit the handy play button pretty much all the tracks i didn’t know. i came upon this track at #152. apparently, it’s the reason they got signed, and while i’ve discovered i can’t really sit through their entire album, this track is a great postrock/scat gem.

says p4k,

It’s beautiful for many reasons– Robert Johnston’s lyrical guitar work and Sue Tompkins’ genius-baby sing-speak embody pure delight. But mostly, it’s beautiful because it feels like the stuff of spontaneous inspiration, the splatter-paint syllables falling into unrepeatable patterns. Remarkably, this is an illusion, as the faithful version captured on Live at the Annandale Hotel attests. The dense wordplay and Rorschach-blot diction make the hundredth listen feel almost as fresh as the first (in 2009, for instance, opening line “If I lose you” sounds an awful lot like “Fallujah”). But the emotional baseline, bursting with love and quavering with doubt, remains satisfyingly constant –Brian Howe

life without buildings – the leanover (download)

photos: animal collective, black dice, dam-funk @ prospect park, 8.14.9

admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:03:38 +0000

my third published pitchfork photo set is none other than my favorite band on the planet, animal collective. check my flickr for lots more shots of them from over the years.

:: view the set on pitchfork

:: view the set on flickr