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Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)

Roy Trakin, Rock's Backpages, 23 January 2009

ACTUALLY, IF YOU haven't picked up on these guys by now, you haven't been surfing the online music blogosphere, which has been blathering about this loose avant-garde troupe that consists of three, sometimes four, childhood Baltimore pals, now transplanted to Brooklyn, Manhattan, Lisbon and Washington, DC, for some time now, whose influence has been felt in breakthrough bands like MGMT.

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