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I love Animal Collective.  To me, they are like an updated, not-so-sleepy-still-interesting version of Can.  That’s why I can’t believe they broke Top 20.

And three weeks after the vinyl version was an instant sell-out, didgeridoo-loving trio Animal Collective will hit #13 with their critic-magnet Merriweather Post Pavilion album, which sold of 24,700 in its first week out in CD format.

via Taylor Swift Tops Chart For Eighth Week – News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV News.

Panda Bears’ solo album, “Person Pitch,” was totes a futuristic, post-pop version of the Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds.”  Not surprisingly, the new single,”My Girls,” reminds me of what pop music might sound like in Brave New World.  Plus, I’m a sucker for Panda Bear’s lyrics/vocal stylings:

Is it much to admit I need
A solid soul and the blood I bleed
With a little girl, and by my spouse
I only want a proper house

I don’t care for fancy things
Or to take part in a precious race
And children cry for the one who has
A real big heart and a father’s grace

I don’t mean to seem like I care about material things like a social status
I just want four walls and adobe slabs for my girls

The video for their current single, “My Girls,” is a little too Blue Man Group meets iPod commercial for me, but the song rocks. Check it.  What do you think?