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Resolutions Of Reverbocity
I have to get back in the swing of this blog. If I don’t keep doing this it will defeat my whole purpose of even starting it and that would just be a waste. For those of you who come for the videos I hope to have more creations soon.
As for these days I have been on a quest. The quest to understand the hype behind the band Animal Collective. After listening to their two most recent albums I have realized that I don’t think they’re bad it just all comes down to the question of “Why are they such a big thing?” My friend Collin Trent sent me a great article, strangely enough from ESPN, that intrigued me to push on and keep listening to their albums. In the article Paul Shirley talks about how he decided to listen to the album over and over to see if the reason we enjoy some albums more than others is because of familiarity. By the seventh listen he enjoys the album. I won’t lie about the subject, I think I’m on my fifth listen through the whole new album and it’s slowly but surely sounding better each time. He was right in the article when he says that when you buy an album that you know songs previously you have anchor points to keep you going. You just have to find those songs and then push through the tracks to get to them.
On the other hand I’m dreading the day where I’ll have to admit to liking Animal Collective for fear of being part of all the hype. Damn it.
