Both men have distinctive and contrasting singing styles, yet the variance between them is crucial to the bristling energy of this record.
Panda Bear and Avey Tare’s vocal relationship helps define and refine the album’s strong danceable electronic aesthetic with some necessary humanity, as they share vocal focus and harmonies. Merriweather is also the first AC album to put melody at the forefront and what a knack for it they have. Despite the immediate joy of tracks like ‘My Girls’, ‘Brothersport’ and ‘Summertime Clothes’, the band’s experimental touches remain resulting in MPP coming across like a 21st century Beach Boys record but with added yelps, squelches and “boing” noises. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post PavilionĪn uncompromising joy, Animal Collective’s eight album sees them in uncharted territory but anyone following the form of their most recent albums won’t be too surprised. In the Santigold-featuring ‘Hold The Line’, the pure Eurodance pop of ‘Keep it Going Louder’ and the dancefloor-slammer ‘Pon De Floor’, Major Lazer also delivered three of the best tunes of the year.Ģ. showcases some of the best dancehall MCs around like Turbulence, Mr. Switch and Diplo’s digital dancehall project is a futuristic twist on that great Jamaican genre imbued with flavours of baile funk, hip-hop, and the global soundclash of modern dance music. Major Lazer – Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do The result is a fired up MC clearly relishing twisting words to beats once again. Flash and a memorable appearance from Slick Rick on ‘Auditorium’. Mos takes a global view with instrumentals from Oh No, Madlib, J Dilla, Preservation and Mr. The Ecstatic is the renaissance of Mos Def as a rapper after ten years of ever-increasing mediocrity.
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