Jul
27
2009

Blind Man's Colour: This Is What Animal Collective Has Done to Music

Posted at 05:00 PM

In Section: On Music Posted By: Evan Rytlewski
 
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As Nirvana's legacy can attest, sometimes the best bands can inspire the worst music. It's with that in mind that I listen to Blind Man's Colour, a vile Florida duo that does for Animal Collective what Robbers on High Street did for Spoon: pillage their playbook and reduce it to shtick. All the Merriweather Post Pavilion-isms are there and magnified four-fold: the braying, blurting sounds; the twinkling, twinkly twinkles, the helium-balloon vocals, the NyQuil-suckling synths.� If this is an omen of what's to come, I fear we're in store for a long 2010.

vine swinger from ∞∞∞ on Vimeo.


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What did Robbers On High Street ever do to you?!

 

"Spoon must have lived on High Street" - my favorite one liner of that year.

 

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This song is no "Birthday Sex."

 

If only they all could be...

 

more like Boards of Canada minus the brown acid

 

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This video reminds me of why I dropped out of film school. While I despise Animal Collective, I actually don't mind this as much...maybe the lesser of two evils?

 

whatever man, this vine swinger is excellent.

 

 
 
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