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Single Reviews
Single Review: Animal Collective – My Girls (Domino)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 23 March 2009
Here’s a phrase I’ve heard many times before: “I don’t get Animal Collective. They’re just noise”. A while ago, during the band’s ‘Feels’ days, I would’ve agreed with at least half of that statement – the Collective make grating, continuous, and sometimes monotonous noise, but at its very core, their sound is inventive and, for fleeting, wonderful moments, beautiful. ‘My Girls’, the first single to be taken from their latest album, ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion’, is five and a half minutes of that extraordinary infusion of beauty. The opening, which sounds like a drawn out snippet of ‘You Got The Love’ sent into outer space, unfolds the song over a vast plain of chanting vocals and erratic, invigorating percussion and hand-clapping. Organic and mournful but ultimately exhilarating, ‘My Girls’ is 2009’s first massive torch song. TW
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