History Music / MerriweatherPostPavilion

** The opening "My Girls" samples a space probe recording of the radio waves given off by Saturn's rings.

** "Lion in a Coma" samples "Yitileni" by the South African musician Madosini
** And for the strangest sample of all: if you listen closely, the ending of "Daily Routine" samples the very end of Veruca Salt's song "I Want It Now" from ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory''. We do mean the *very* end: it's the part where she goes down the egg chute.

* UncommonTime: "Lion in a Coma" is in 9/8 time.

''Merriweather Post Pavilion'' is the eighth studio album by Baltimore experimental group Music/AnimalCollective, released on January 6, 2009. As expected of the band, this album marks a departure from the NoisePop sound of their previous effort, ''Strawberry Jam'', focusing on a more ambient-drenched electronic style. After guitarist Deakin temporarily withdrew from the band for personal reasons, the remaining members used samplers as instrumentation in lieu of guitar, and set up PA systems around their recording studio to replicate their live sound.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: "Guys Eyes".

''Merriweather Post Pavilion'' is the eighth studio album by Baltimore experimental group Music/AnimalCollective, released on January 6, 2009. As expected of the band, this album marks a departure in sound from their previous effort, ''Strawberry Jam'', focusing on a more electronic sound. After guitarist Deakin temporarily withdrew from the band for personal reasons, the remaining members used samplers as instrumentation in lieu of guitar, and set up PA systems around their recording studio to replicate their live sound.

* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''Music/KidA'' by Music/{{Radiohead}}. Both albums came out within the same decade, are considered among the greatest albums of that decade, and sport an experimental, electronic-infused sound that emphasizes texture and timbre over traditional melody and lyricism. However, the two are polar opposites beyond those similarities, with ''Kid A'' featuring a haunting, minimalist sound with lyrics of apocalypse and personal crisis, and ''Merriweather Post Pavilion'' featuring a lushly dense and layered sound with more wistfully abstract lyrics covering broadly romantic themes.

The album was first hinted at in an update to Animal Collective's official website before it was officially announced in October of 2008. This was followed by promotional listening parties across both America and Britain, as well as numerous leaks onto the internet. ''Merriweather'' is also noted for being one of the first major albums since Music/PearlJam[='s=] ''Vitalogy'' in 1994 to be released on vinyl before it was released on CD, heralding the vinyl revival truly kicking into gear after its origin in 2007.

The album was first hinted at in an update to Animal Collective's official website before it was officially announced in October of 2008. This was followed by promotional listening parties across both America and Britain, as well as numerous leaks onto the internet. ''Merriweather'' is also noted for being released on vinyl before it was released on CD.

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''Merriweather Post Pavilion'' is the eighth studio album by Baltimore experimental group Music/AnimalCollective, released January 6 2009. As expected of the band, this album marks a departure in sound from their previous effort, ''Strawberry Jam'', focusing on a more electronic sound. After guitarist Deakin temporarily withdrew from the band for personal reasons, the remaining members used samplers as instrumentation in lieu of guitar, and set up PA systems around their recording studio to replicate their live sound.

If you've ever discussed music on the internet, you may have seen this album be brought up a few times. Praised for being a perfect blend of pop accessibility and SignatureStyle, ''Merriweather Post Pavilion'' ended up being the most critically successful album of 2009 according to Metacritic. Multiple reviews immediately named it as the best album of 2009 - "immediately" being ''its release in the first week of January'' - and continue to hold these views to this day. Today, it's universally considered a classic, cited as an amazing pop record and one of the best albums of the 2000s.

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* ShoutOut: "My Girls" is built around a arpeggioated synthline reminiscent of Jamie Principle's "Your Love".

If you've ever discussed music on the internet, you may have seen this album be brought up a few times. Praised for being a perfect blend of accessibility and SignatureStyle, ''Merriweather Post Pavilion'' ended up being the most critically successful album of 2009 according to Metacritic. Multiple reviews immediately named it as the best album of 2009 - "immediately" being ''its release in the first week of January'' - and continue to hold these views to this day. Today, it's universally considered a classic, cited as an amazing pop record and one of the best albums of the 2000s.

* BrokenRecord: The majority of the album, but "Brother Sport" is probably the most extreme example of this, as EVERY section of the song consists of this.

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''Merriweather Post Pavilion'' is the eighth studio album by Baltimore experimental group ''Music/AnimalCollective'', released January 6 2009. As expected of the band, this album marks a departure in sound from their previous effort, ''Strawberry Jam'', focusing on a more electronic sound. After guitarist Deakin temporarily withdrew from the band for personal reasons, the remaining members used samplers as instrumentation in lieu of guitar, and set up PA systems around their recording studio to replicate their live sound.

''Merriweather Post Pavilion'' is the eighth studio album by Baltimore experimental group Music/AnimalCollective, released January 6 2009. As expected of the band, this album marks a departure in sound from their previous effort, ''Strawberry Jam'', focusing on a more electronic sound. After guitarist Deakin temporarily withdrew from the band for personal reasons, the remaining members used samplers as instrumentation in lieu of guitar, and set up PA systems around their recording studio to replicate their live sound.

'''''Merriweather Post Pavilion''''' is the eighth studio album by Baltimore experimental group Music/AnimalCollective, released January 6 2009. As expected of the band, this album marks a departure in sound from their previous effort, ''Strawberry Jam'', focusing on a more electronic sound. After guitarist Deakin temporarily withdrew from the band for personal reasons, the remaining members used samplers as instrumentation in lieu of guitar, and set up PA systems around their recording studio to replicate their live sound.