Merriweather Post Pavilion (15th Anniversary): Bluish & Translucent Green Double LP

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Label: Domino
Release Date: 28th June

I still can't not look at that artwork for anything less than 2 minutes before shaking my eyes lose and saying 'nah, it's not right, that'. 15 years ago Animal Collective took a hold of people in the same way with their experimental electronic psychedelic pop masterpiece, an album that popped with harmony, colour, textures and an energy that hasn't been matched by them or any other band since. Magic time. 

Animal Collective will celebrate the 15-year anniversary of their seminal album Merriweather Post Pavilion with a deluxe vinyl repress due out June 28^th via Domino. The album will be pressed to colour vinyl for the first time, available as a 2xLP in Translucent Green and Bluish and comes in a reflective foil jacket. 

Merriweather Post Pavilion was universally acclaimed upon its release in 2009 and was named the #1 best album of the year by Pitchfork, MOJO, Clash, Entertainment Weekly, Spin, and Uncut. “Every once in a while, musicians sweep away the existing musical landscape to create something new,” stated NPR at the time. “Animal Collective is such a group, and its new Merriweather Post Pavilion is such an album.”

It has since been recognized as one of the most influential records of the 2000s with Uncut naming it “one of the landmark American albums of the century so far” and MOJO labelling it “astonishing”.

“When it comes to 2000s indie, Merriweather stands as the era’s alpha and omega,” Pitchfork has written. “A diamond-cut reflection of the era’s eccentricities, seemingly impossible to replicate in form or format.”