“Leaf House” by Animal Collective

 

I can’t get over this song.  I keep listening to it over and over again.  The repetition, wavering vocals.  The real live wooden drums mixed with so much technological fidgetry.  Panda Bear’s vocals when he drops and sings, “Heyyyyyyyy heyyyyyyyy heyyyyyyy heyyyyyyy” so low.  And the build up and release, with the vocals that sound like fire alarms.  What is this song about?  And how can a song be so weird and still be so fucking catchy?  And I wait and wait and wait for the ending, though I can’t fast forward, “No one, there’s no one, no one, no one, there’s no one, no one, no one, there’s no one to say meowwwwwwwwww  (KITTIES!) meowwwwwwww (KITTIES!)”   Dude, what the fuck, why is it so good? 

 And why was everyone already listening to this for the past 7 years, while I’ve been asleep at the wheel?  There’s too much to keep up with. 

Nothing is better than Animal Collective and Panda Bear this week.  The only things I’ve been able to slide into the play list to go along with this stuff is TV on the Radio’s Return to Cookie Mountain and the unreleased SMiLE recordings by the Beach Boys.  But I just listen to “I Was a Lover” for a second, and then go back to listening to “Did You See the Words.”  Or Jesus, even the high school Panda Bear stuff–I’ve had “Inside a Great Stadium and a Running Race” in my head too.  So there you go. 

 “leaf house”

~ by libbabeff on January 21, 2008.