So I hear this innaresting piece on the public radio, ring the DJ and he tells me it's 'animal Collective'. And just like a sigh out of a Todd Haynes movie comes a MASSIVE HYPE about them in the Village (idiots) Voice!!!
So I check 'em out. Feh! They sound like bloody Mercury Rev...It seems a trend with this 'psych-folk-indy' VillageVoice endorsed 'happy' or 'freak' psych muzak post indy disco neo80s electro-gaycore that the most influential bands out of all this are MERCURY REV ('Boses' esp) and Flaming Lips and anything that Dave Fridmann produces for that matter...
I personally believe Mercury Rev are one of the last truly *great* American bands, especially in 'moderniste' times, Flaming Lips annoy more than inspire..BUT all these shitty, post-shoegazer 'clever' bands with their fuggen 'composed' ultra dense hypertextualised Beach boys inspired 'weirdness' and forced 'genius' just come off so bloody predicatable, or as enlightening or 'new feeling' inducing as following a weblink from NuMu to Pitchforkmedia to the Village Voice to Salon and back again.
So I check 'em out. Feh! They sound like bloody Mercury Rev...It seems a trend with this 'psych-folk-indy' VillageVoice endorsed 'happy' or 'freak' psych muzak post indy disco neo80s electro-gaycore that the most influential bands out of all this are MERCURY REV ('Boses' esp) and Flaming Lips and anything that Dave Fridmann produces for that matter...
I personally believe Mercury Rev are one of the last truly *great* American bands, especially in 'moderniste' times, Flaming Lips annoy more than inspire..BUT all these shitty, post-shoegazer 'clever' bands with their fuggen 'composed' ultra dense hypertextualised Beach boys inspired 'weirdness' and forced 'genius' just come off so bloody predicatable, or as enlightening or 'new feeling' inducing as following a weblink from NuMu to Pitchforkmedia to the Village Voice to Salon and back again.