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January 9, 2016 7:40 AM   Subscribe

Animal Collective - FloriDada (Official Video) [YouTube] [Viewer discretion is advised, this video has been identified to potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy.] FloriDada is from Animal Collective’s Painting With out February 19, 2016, produced and directed by sometime Adult Swim directors PFFR.

- Interview: Animal Collective's Primitive Future by Jeremy Gordon [Pitchfork]
They visualized the album as what Weitz calls “an electronic drum circle,” resulting in the loosest Animal Collective record in years. They eschewed slow jams for a set of songs inspired by more elemental pleasures: early Beatles, early Ramones, and Tin Pan Alley-era songwriters—artists who could make a lot happen in a short amount of time. Painting With was their first album recorded in the sprawling, car-oriented metropolis of L.A., where they found it easy to stay isolated in their own creative environment. Another first: They created the album without performing any of its songs in concert beforehand.
posted by Fizz (33 comments total) 15 users marked this as a favorite
 
“Florida....”
posted by Fizz at 7:43 AM on January 9, 2016


This Floridadaian approves of this message.
posted by Splunge at 8:02 AM on January 9, 2016


(thanks for the warning on this. I suffer from migraines that can be triggered by flashing lights and might have clicked on this without your warning)
posted by sciencegeek at 8:12 AM on January 9, 2016


I can see where this song might appeal to some, but I found it utterly off-putting. Not going to put down people who do like it, but I won't be listening/viewing again.
posted by hippybear at 8:18 AM on January 9, 2016 [2 favorites]


Heard the song a couple weeks ago (thank you Minnesota Public Radio). But that video was impossible to watch. Stopped after about 30 seconds. It still hurts.

Why do people do this? It's the visual equivalent to screeching.
posted by yesster at 8:21 AM on January 9, 2016 [1 favorite]


Nice to see Dancing Baby is still getting work.
posted by GameDesignerBen at 8:23 AM on January 9, 2016 [7 favorites]


Love the video, but too, too much Floridada Floridada Floridada.
posted by Going To Maine at 8:32 AM on January 9, 2016


Never understood the appeal of Animal Collective. Still don't.
posted by King Bee at 8:34 AM on January 9, 2016 [1 favorite]


The state which to those of us up North think of as simultaneously sordid and staid has apparently hired Animal Collective to revise our prejudices. Florida is actually trippy, fertile, and able to separate itself from the contiguous United States and dance in the cosmos. Dear Florida Chamber of Commerce: Is MDMA legal in Florida? I'm thinking of visiting next winter. Are you going to change your name to Floridada? That would translate to something like Flowers of the Father, which is kinda cool.
posted by kozad at 8:43 AM on January 9, 2016 [1 favorite]


Cool. South Korea has a new track for it's cross-border set.
posted by adept256 at 9:09 AM on January 9, 2016




Based on this track and hearing that it's the same lineup from Merriweather Post Pavilion, I'm optimistic about this album despite being completely bored by the ODDSAC and Centipede Hz.
posted by dogwalker at 9:30 AM on January 9, 2016 [1 favorite]


Why do people do this? It's the visual equivalent to screeching.

Animal Collective is also partial to auditory screeching.
posted by Itaxpica at 9:42 AM on January 9, 2016 [2 favorites]


Brought to you by the Florida Committee for Tourism and Recreational Drug Use.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:49 AM on January 9, 2016 [3 favorites]


In the 90s these were sold on VHS as the Mind's Eye series of tapes. Basically they were eye candy for LSD.

Fittingly I associate my college days in Florida with memories if watching those vids.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:51 AM on January 9, 2016 [1 favorite]


I imagine that part of the video style choice was motivated by cost. I think today there is a kind of necessity as an artist to have a video presence on Youtube - with an actual "video" of some description (rather than just stills of the CD cover) but no-one really cares that much about the video at all, and no-one has any speakable "budget" to spend on such things.... - unless you are Beyonce.

So any cheap fast easy crap will do. And if you can knock together 'video' content for the whole album for next to nothing then sure why not.
posted by mary8nne at 10:04 AM on January 9, 2016


My name is kaibutsu, and I like loud noises and flashing lights.

Loved Animal collective back in da day (Sung Tongs is my favorite of their albums), and still love Panda Bear's stuff, but the new song didn't do a lot for me. I do have a deep, deep love for Dan Deacon, though, who fills my current needs for loud noises and flashing lights quite well, and has been doing some awesome work with experimental animators for his last few videos.
posted by kaibutsu at 10:11 AM on January 9, 2016 [5 favorites]


Well I liked that. I've somehow failed to come across Animal Collective before so I guess I'll just vanish down another rabbit hole for a while! On hearing this I imagined it might be in some way connected to Rudy Schwartz/Joe Newman but if so I haven't discovered that yet.

Why do people do this? It's the visual equivalent to screeching.
It's very sophisticated so I'm not sure screeching is right. To my admittedly uneducated eye it looks genuinely surreal, which is a relatively unusual thing these days perhaps because it's quite hard to achieve. See also Pon Pon Pon which also came to mind when I saw this, even though it could hardly be more different.
posted by merlynkline at 10:59 AM on January 9, 2016


Not sure about this song, excited about a new album. Sung Tongs is a good place to start. Merriweather Post Pavillion is also pretty accessible. Other albums have screeching sometimes.

This is possibly the best love song ever written.
posted by sibboleth at 11:02 AM on January 9, 2016 [1 favorite]


My god. It's like the sex scene from Lawnmower Man never ended.
posted by egypturnash at 12:03 PM on January 9, 2016 [2 favorites]


Sung Tongs is a good place to start. Merriweather Post Pavillion is also pretty accessible.

Agree with this 100%.
posted by Fizz at 12:33 PM on January 9, 2016


I always thought earlier Animal Collective had much more of an influence from member Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear) and that style is much more my speed. After Sung Tongs it seems like Avey Tare might have started to exert a little more creative control and they went from a more contemplative and searching bizarro-folk sound to the hyperactive maximalist garbage of the last few albums.

Panda Bear's solo work is the only stuff in that universe that has mattered to me since Sung Tongs.
posted by dreamlanding at 12:36 PM on January 9, 2016 [2 favorites]


This song really epitomizes the love/hate relationship I have with this band. Also, Florida. Mostly hate, or at least disdain, there, though, as I am a grateful former resident. They both sure do have some real moments...
posted by feloniousmonk at 1:32 PM on January 9, 2016


this is a great song from a great band, y'all are just old
posted by JimBennett at 2:17 PM on January 9, 2016 [6 favorites]


animal collective are like elder statesmen of weird hipster music by now, though.

however the video's aesthetic seems chosen to appeal to the youth of today.
posted by vogon_poet at 2:41 PM on January 9, 2016


I liked the part where they both got pregnant.
posted by en forme de poire at 3:01 PM on January 9, 2016


Is MDMA legal in Florida?

Oh absolutely not. But, on the other hand, during the warm, rainy season (April through November) psilocybe cubensis is, like, all over the place.
posted by Cookiebastard at 3:14 PM on January 9, 2016


Love this!
posted by persona au gratin at 4:10 PM on January 9, 2016 [1 favorite]


I wonder how many other songs combine another word with 'dada'. The one that immediately comes to mind for me is Caetano Veloso's ambitious Brazilian psychedelic tune Tropicália, in which he sings a chorus of "Carmen Miranda-da-da-da-da..."
posted by umbú at 8:49 PM on January 9, 2016


I didn't get on-board with Animal Collective until Merriweather Post Pavillion MPP was such a revelation when I first heard it; like nothing I had heard before (though maybe the fact that I hadn't heard anything like it before just marks me as square). Anyway, it's interesting how warm and nostalgic their style sounds now that most of a decade's worth of music stands between us and MPP's recording.
posted by You Can't Tip a Buick at 2:04 AM on January 10, 2016 [1 favorite]


> this is a great song from a great band, y'all are just old
posted by JimBennett at 2:17 PM on January 9 [5 favorites −] [!]


uhhh to be fair I'd diagnose metafilter's tendency to consistently misjudge contemporary music as being more about mefites being square than about mefites being old.

probably my favorite example of this is this thread from 2005 wherein the bulk of the participants went all "THIS IS NEW AND CONFUSING GET IT AWAY" over MIA of all people, who even back then was pretty middle-of-the-road.
posted by You Can't Tip a Buick at 2:18 AM on January 10, 2016 [1 favorite]


to be fair I'd diagnose metafilter's tendency to consistently misjudge contemporary music as being more about mefites being square than about mefites being old

You guys didn't get the memo? Bad news, I'm afraid, about your favorite band.

As I write this Jeopardy is on and the last answer was Dada. It's Malkovich ask the way down it seems.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 7:13 PM on January 11, 2016


I keep coming back to the "Wipe out" sample. Cracks me up every time.
posted by unknowncommand at 4:37 PM on January 12, 2016


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