*just quick thoughts on this copy and pasted from a DM with my boyfriend lol*
The guitar intro didn't need to be over 7 minutes long as there isn't really much to it, and with his recent rambly storytelling songwriting style and the main structure of the song being basically the same for the entire thing did make it a bit meandering at times. But he basically tells the whole story of his early music career and why he called himself Microphones, and why he brought the name back, among many other ... read more
I decided to give Animal Collective's Tangerine Reef another go last night. It's not bad as I remembered, it's pretty bad though. One problem for me is is rarely are the sounds going into it all that interesting, in a lot of tracks they're pretty psychedelic in the way they're assembled, but very plain texturally, especially on the opener "hair cutter" and the following song "buffalo tomato" which has sorta cool rhythms and melodies going but the sound is just so, bleh. But ... read more