Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

When an album, track after track, brings you back to simplistic realities of love, hot days, or basic human emotions and still manages to make you to dance uncontrollably, it transcends the simple beats and hooks it embodies and becomes an experience.
Animal Collective?s ?Merriweather Post Pavilion,? is a mosaic of sound that can be daunting to listeners unfamiliar with their work, yet may be the most accessible from their previous albums and most rewarding.
Animal Collective?s freak folk, tribal, electronic, and trance monikers of past albums converge on this album. The chaos and bipolar extremes that make AC a music anomaly are toned down in this effort, but ultimately create mature and harmonious music.
?My Girls,? a song about needing only family and basic amenities, feeds off sonic graces from synthesizers, hand clapping, tight and simple beats, and vocal harmonization that takes dreamers on a cosmic journey.
And no matter how many times a song is on repeat, there is always a new discovery.
AC?s ?Guys Eyes? take over the psychedelic farm from Beach Boys ?Pet Sounds,? and breaks it off into an island where the instruments layer on top of the other and voices waltz, never overpowering with speed or slowing to normalcy. The bedrock of their sound lies in their cohesion.
AC?s group of alter-egos Avey Tare (Dave Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Geologist (Brian Weitz) and Deakin (Josh DIbb), who didn?t contribute to this album, make every track intricate enough to keep interests without giving a headache and this is shown in the climax, ?Brother Sport? from the very opening when they say, ?Open up your, open up your, open your throat.? The washed piano, and electronic loops and sirens that take over the track midway shows the hints over their mad scientist chaos, but it?s still restrained enough to not sound blighting.
This album will push people to accept new noises and soundscapes, but in a world of the standard rock format, this is absolutely necessary.

Chorros!!!

During the month of June, mushrooms called chorros sprout throughout La Esperanza and parts of Marcala. The season ended a few days ago, but people's love for these red delicicies grow every year. On every road leading in and out of La Esperanza, people held out bag-fulls of the red mushrooms ready for sale. The mushrooms, which only last a couple of days after being uprooted, always seemed plentiful. There were sellers at least every two minutes and one bag was as full and red as the other. The rain never stopped sellers from setting up shop. It's not surprising to see the rain has block out the horizon.

The story of Chorros are a mystery. It's unknown how Chorros regrow at the same time every year. Japanese scientist visited a few years back trying to answer the mystery of the chorro, but it turned out there were more questions left than answers. It remains that there is only two places in the world where Chorros grow, parts of Marcala and La Esperanza.

There are a few ways to cook Chorros: grilled, sauted or a soup. I tried grilled and sauted and prefer the grilled more. The closest I can describe the flavor is that they have a slightly sweet smoked flavor that doesn't taste like regular mushrooms. You can only grill Chorros that are wholly undamaged. If you try to barbeque a torn chorro, it will fall apart quickly and burn at the edges too quickly.