So, let's say the ideal of all progressive music is Freud's phallic phase: "Wow, this feels good when I touch it! I'll just keep doing it." Then, Danse Manatee might be located firmly in Freud's anal phase: "Mommy, look what I made!"
I wrote a paper on this song, and its role in experimental pop at the turn of the millennium.
Experimental Pop at the Turn of the Millennium -
Analysis of Danse Manatee and Where it Fits in the Landscape of Pop
Often described by critics as the “blunder” or “excess” in their discography, Animal Collective’s Danse Manatee remains a personal favorite of the musicians who created it. Inspired by the lowest and highest sounds on the frequency picked up by human ... read more
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After STGSTV, an album composed of intentionally terrible mixing, occasional screeching noise, and beautiful, light melodies, where will AnCo go next? The answer is Danse Manatee - an album that is somehow even more conflicting than the last. I’ve seen people that both love and hate this album, and while I definitely ... read more
Well, this album exists.
Shoutout to @DantorGD for helping me get into Animal Collective. I’m now doing a discography dive for this band to see what I like from this band and what I don’t like from this band, and I don’t like this album.
Their debut record was one of the most emotional albums I’ve ever listened to, with Panda Bear’s vocals being my favorite part of pretty much every song. I also gave their debut a 100.
And then they pour it all down the sink in ... read more
I used to be the biggest Animal Collective hater to the point of being a miserable asshole about it but I always enjoyed the debut, bizarrely. Never got to this one but the title stuck in my mind - and now the music itself does too. What a weird ass record! It goes in the stranger, noisier, lower fidelity depths of the debut's work - it honestly feels like Thinking Fellers and Caroliner blended into an electronic fever dream while experiencing mononucleosis. I bet I would have loved it if I ... read more
Animal Collective (2/21)
There's always an argument as to how far experimental music can get before it becomes a bit excessive. Welp. I'm part of that group of people that thinks this album is too much and also not enough.
1 | A Manatee Dance 1:02 | 48 |
2 | Penguin Penguin 2:15 | 50 |
3 | Another White Singer (Little White Glove) 1:58 | 50 |
4 | Essplode 3:23 | 70 |
5 | Meet the Light Child 8:44 | 58 |
6 | Runnin' the Round Ball 2:07 | 61 |
7 | Bad Crumbs 1:43 | 50 |
8 | The Living Toys 7:48 | 49 |
9 | Throwin' the Round Ball 1:35 | 56 |
10 | Ahhh Good Country 8:18 | 60 |
11 | Lablakely Dress 2:38 | 50 |
12 | In the Singing Box 5:36 | 60 |