what does it for you
February 3rd, 2009Reading this refutation of an ironic assessment of Animal Collective’s new album and internet gaga stardom, and came across this great quote:
"I have this relationship with music. There is this cold and dizzy feeling that overtakes me sometimes, when a song or a passage of a song happens to gun it to my heart. And I am addicted to this feeling–I seek it out, sludging through days upon days of music, much of it very objectively "good", for those moments capable of the cold and dizzy."
I know that feeling, though I wouldn’t describe it as cold and dizzy…more like warm and mind buggled.
And for what it’s worth, I’m finding the new Animal Collective album to be pretty great, maybe over-hyped, probably stunning live, and psychedelic as all get out. Gotta listen to it more, I think there’s patterns in there I haven’t heard yet…you can feel it from the cover:
still a band i have yet to like though i listen to them. and i do dig the title of the new album.
there are many moments like the one described above on this album and on their other albums. for me, they nail that feeling as much as anyone especially on tracks like Brother Sport or Turn Into Something. the kind that make me want cry, laugh and kick something over simultaneously.
so is that picture moving or not?
it’s not animated, if that’s what you’re asking, but it damn well looks like it’s moving…
and for anyone curious about how the band sounds, check:
htp://joshgranger.com/audio/Brothersport.mp3
Thanks Max T. That’s odd because optical illusions usually don’t work for me – I’ve got one bad eye. This one definitely looks like it’s floating though.