#103

ha i just had a quick browse-listen to Feels when i was trying to figure out my answer and yep when i listened to Purple Bottle i thought ‘christ’. couple of stinkers on that album

interestingly when i downloaded it back in the day that track was (mercifully?) missing from the file. and Loch Raven was the closing track.

#104

Definitely my favourite year for new releases.

#105

Oh i love Purple Bottle

Find yr bottle find yr heart… Bowm bowm

#106

Feels and Person Pitch are the best AnCo related records for me. Strawberry Jam is good too…the rest is pretty balls

As for TVOTR…to a degree I like all their records but Dear Science is the best by a long way. Some absolute gold on that record and if you haven’t listened to it recently I recommend revisiting it…a classic record in that particular era for sure

#107

Hot take: decent record. 7.5/10

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#108

A solid 3rd best for me

#109

I remember a lot of people losing their frigging minds for mpp and I was SO EXCITED to hear it. I managed to convince myself that I liked it mainly because my girls is a banger but, bit by bit I was able to see through these emperor’s new clothes to the muddy shambles beneath. Awful record.

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#110

might change my answer to Sung Tongs - don’t really have any problem with the folksy stuff but i seem to remember it falling off a bit in the second half

#111

I loved it was an entry point to a lot of music for me. The whole thing is hypotic. Strawberry Jam has better songs but MWPP flows better. bluish is also underrated

#112

even when i loved the album i never liked this one

#113

The correct order goes:
Young Liars > Cookie Mountain > Desperate Youth > Dear Science > Nine Types of Light > Seeds

#114

Agree about Bluish. That, the opener and the closer are my personal favourites.

#115

That was my order without Young Liars, hard to rank EPs alongside albums but it’s hard to argue against sticking it at the top tbf

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#116

Reckon this album hasn’t aged well in because it was painfully 2009 and ten years ago will always be a bit embarrassing.

Reckon it’ll come full circle eventually.

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#118

Panda Bear used all of his good songs up on Person Pitch.

#119

really good piece this. really effectively contextualises that time and what’s come since.

feel very old now.

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#120

Yeah, this bit made me feel like an old bastard:

‘Even the level of mass excitement that led up to Merriweather ’s release—a palpable sense of anticipation readily memorable to any aging indie fan who spent the 2000s with the type of high-speed internet access that only their university could provide—has yet to be replicated in the decade since.’

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#121

Even though technically we’re all aging, that still smarts.

#122

What’s slightly more surprising is Merriweather ’s own lack of projected influence on indie at large.

Interesting to see what is and isn’t influential after years have passed. It’s not necessarily the big critical releases of the time.

One example is Kanye. 808s and Heartbreaks went on to be massively influential, while no one ever really bothered tried or had any lucky trying to replicate My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, for whatever reason.

Stillness is the Move alone, as mentioned in that article, was probably more influential on the indie music actually made in the last 10 years than anything Animal Collective relased.

Think if MPP had an influence it was towards the wider resurgence in house music towards the beginning of the decade tbh. Things like Caribou’s shift towards house on Swim and Our Love, that Pantha du Prince album with Panda Bear on it, other crossovers like John Talabot and DJ Koze. Even the initial embrace of something like Disclosure among the indie crowd can probably somewhat be attributed to that record and My Girls in particular.

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