Musical Note: My Girls
A song you might like.
I’ve been guiltily buying Animal Collective albums for a while now, and it has taken me a long time to fall hard. I’ve come close. “Grass,” from the album Feels, is beautiful, jangly, and short. Short is important. I have a harder time processing longer tracks, which could be why it’s taken me a long time to digest the Animal Collective discography. At the urging of a friend, I recently played “My Girls,” from the most celebrated album of the year, really loud. And that did it. The hand-claps! These songs are meant to be played really loud. For me, Toto’s “Africa” is the perfect pop song. This comes close. There is a part of me that feels very guilty about praising a song that’s been so widely praised, particularly for a savvy audience like this one. Yet it had to be done. If this is what neo-primitivism sounds like, sign me up. No ritual scarring, please.
Pretty good. This song’s hook, structure, and charming relationship to past pop music seems analogous to Belle and Sebastian’s “Electronic Renaissance” from 1996.
— matt · Jan 24, 03:58 PM · #