Hip Hype

A blogger reexamines Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion and finds it holds up:

I feel like I’m supposed to tell you that this album was over-hyped. I feel like I’m supposed to tell you that we all got caught up in some big sham – that Merriweather Post Pavilion isn’t all that great. Hell, there are scores of fans who will tell you it’s Animal Collective’s third or fourth best album. But you know what? They’re wrong. Because this album is phenomenal. It is the summation of every Animal Collective note that came before it, a landmark album from a group that has always pushed the edge of the proverbial envelope , provided that the envelope contained ridiculous jams.

Same blog: Why the bleep does everyone cover "Wonderwall?" (Pretty Much Amazing)