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Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion is an album by Animal Collective, released in 2009. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 30 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “My Girls”, on 18 lists with a best position of #2.
Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective's eighth album, came out on Domino on January 6, 2009, named for the Maryland amphitheater where Avey Tare and Geologist caught shows as kids. Cut as a trio with Panda Bear and co-produced with Ben H. Allen, it all but ditches guitars: samplers and synthesizers do the heavy lifting, drenched in reverb, and the band even rigged PA systems in the studio to catch the rush of their live shows. It picks up the electronic thread of Strawberry Jam and the sound of Panda Bear's Person Pitch, then blows them up lush and wide.
"My Girls", a glowing, chant-like rush, was named the best song of 2009 by Pitchfork and Slant, and "Summertime Clothes" and "Brother Sport" followed it out. Metacritic tallied it as the year's best-reviewed album, it reached number 13 on the Billboard 200, and its reverb-soaked psychedelic pop echoed through indie music for the next decade.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Merriweather Post Pavilion on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My Girls | 18 | #2 | – | 2009–2025 | |
| 2 | Summertime Clothes | 11 | #6 | – | 2009–2025 | |
| 3 | In The Flowers | 1 | #696 | – | 2024 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.