i'm weighted by thinkin'

i suppose i could write why i like this song so much, but in light of giving thanks and the upcoming weekend festivities and everything, i'll just give credit where credit is due from the pfork review: this is a great summary of why this song is wonderful.

"Graze" flows directly into "What Would I Want? Sky", a song that samples Grateful Dead's "Unbroken Chain" and is easily among the most warm, likeable, and melodic tracks Animal Collective have recorded. It refracts Aquarian optimism through a modern sense of uncertainty, undercutting the loop's jovial lilt with a tricky structure and lyrics that seem confused about what will happen next. "Sky" contains the first officially licensed sample of the Dead, and it's the best marketing move the band's organization has made since they greenlighted Cherry Garcia. It's not easy to take a cut-up voice and make it the centerpiece of a tune, and it's harder still to sing along with it in a way that doesn't sound forced. But "What Would I Want? Sky" sounds as natural as something that grew out of the earth.

i think the best way to tell good things is by whether they feel as natural as something that grew out of the earth.

and i want to walk around with you

today it snowed. i'm out in fairfax, so that meant hanging out with my cats, shoveling the driveway, and taking an accidental 4-hour nap this afternoon. this whole snow-and-nap situation really threw a kink into my plan, which was to have a plan and stick to it, due to i have had a lot of no motivation and a lot of sadness recently. so i made a to-do list! but none of it got to-done.

point is: one thing i was going to do is buy the new animal collective album. couldn't; instead, listened to parts of it on hypemachine. it's finally started to click for me, and it's just so fucking joyous. favorite so far: summertime clothes. appropriate.