I'm not sure if there are other fans out there, but I'd thoroughly recommend any of The Books albums for those getting excited by Animal Collective and so on. They're different - more composed and "electronic" - but making music from primarily acoustic instruments and American folk sources.
The song structures are mainly based on spoken word samples, generally cut and pasted into weird arrangements.
If it's still available, The Books member Zammuto's album 'Willscher' is pretty great as well. They revisit a bit of the sound of that album on the latest Books release, 'Lost and Safe'.
I could chuck some MP3s somewhere if anyone's interested. Maybe this stuff is well known? I can never gauge what's completely old hat to people posting here...
The song structures are mainly based on spoken word samples, generally cut and pasted into weird arrangements.
If it's still available, The Books member Zammuto's album 'Willscher' is pretty great as well. They revisit a bit of the sound of that album on the latest Books release, 'Lost and Safe'.
I could chuck some MP3s somewhere if anyone's interested. Maybe this stuff is well known? I can never gauge what's completely old hat to people posting here...