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Last night around 9pm I decided that I needed to get out of the house for a bit and got on my bike for a ride to the beach. It was really cold outside and really dark but it felt sort of good in an exhilarating sort of way. After biking for a while, the clouds cleared and I used the moon to guide me as I rode through the part of the park with no streetlights. When I reached the beach, I stood watching the waves break for a while and then decided to get a cup of coffee to warm me up. As I sat slowly drinking the coffee and smoking a cigarette, I got a phone call that ended in an invitation to watch a movie in a warm bed. On the way back I pedaled slowly, smiling, knowing for sure that life only gets better and better..

The new Animal Collective album is real good and it sounds like everything I just wrote about. In fact, I listened to this album on repeat the whole time I was biking around in the cold. Whooping or hollering drenched in reverb and delay make everything feel wamer.

Animal Collective – My Girls
Animal Collective – Bluish

Bonus:
Animal Collective – My Girls (video)

EDIT: I got a couple of emails asking me to take down the Animal Collective songs and they were pretty nice about it so disabled the links. If you still want them, feel free to email me and I can send them to you, otherwise I would check out Hype Machine for other blogs to find them on.

This entry was posted on Friday, January 9th, 2009 at 12:00 am by Jesse and is filed under Indie Rock, Really Fun, Reverb. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.