06. Animal Collective - 812 plays
Only my top 5 have cracked 1k plays, that's a solid divider.
Yes, I totally got on board the Animal Collective train when Merriweather Post Pavilion came out. I mean, "My Girls" blew me away. And it was only in this time that I started listening to the sort of music that AnCo produce.
I'll still hold MPP as my favorite album of theirs, and without a doubt one of the best albums to come out in 2009 (though Logos might be better). But I really love Sung Tongs. Strawberry Jam is really good too - I'm surprised a lot of fans don't like it. I dig Feels, but it's probably my least favorite of these 4.
Similar to of Montreal, Animal Collective have several albums prior to Sung Tongs, but I haven't really gotten into any of that material. Still, that's 4 pretty amazing albums, plus an EP - last fall's Fall Be Kind, especially the Grateful Dead sampling "What Would I Want? Sky".
07. Grizzly Bear - 681 plays
Grizzly Bear! I would place them akin to Deerhunter in that they're also very atmospheric to me. Veckatimest took me away to a different place. I saw them in Central Park opening for The Decemberists, before I actually knew them. Must see them again now.
08. The Shins - 640 plays
Really good poppy indie stuff. I don't listen to The Shins so much anymore, though I'm definitely digging the Broken Bells album.
09. Atlas Sound - 630 plays
Bradford Cox has 2 groups in my Top 10! Started off as Bradford doing bedroom electronic type stuff apart from Deerhunter, but it goes beyond that with Logos. I fucking love Logos.
10. Destroyer - 611 plays
Dan Bejar, one of the singers for The New Pornographers, also has his own project - with a bunch of albums. You would really have to say The New Pornos is his side project. Some good stuff here - "New Ways of Living" is one helluva tune. His eccentricities pretty much run rampant here, while they are kept in check and combined with different elements (A.C. Newman's brand of power pop) in The New Pornos.
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