: It drew heavily from the "wide-screen Technicolor" and reverb-heavy style of Panda Bear's 2007 solo album, Person Pitch .
Released in , Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion didn’t just define a year; it reshaped the entire landscape of indie music. Often cited as the pinnacle of the "blog rock" era, the album transformed the Baltimore-born experimentalists into reluctant indie superstars. The Sound: A "Magic Eye" for Your Ears : It drew heavily from the "wide-screen Technicolor"
Merriweather Post Pavilion is not background music. It is a test track for audio equipment. When you play “Bluish” on a pair of Sennheiser HD 600s or Grado headphones fed by a proper DAC, the 320kbps encoding reveals the “bedroom intimacy” of the recording—the slight warble in Panda Bear’s vocal, the clipping on the sampler’s output that the band left in for texture. The Sound: A "Magic Eye" for Your Ears
It was the most critically acclaimed album of 2009 according to Metacritic , earning "Best New Music" from and a rare perfect score from Cultural Context: It was the most critically acclaimed album of
Psychedelic pop, Indietronica, Experimental pop, Synth-pop .