Went down to Music Millennium last night to pick up some new releases, but ended up finding what I had been looking for, for over a month now. THE GROUPER CD. yes, they had it, and not only that, the store had two in stock. So of course I bought it and I ended up writing the end of my Gothic narrative for English to it. This CD is so good that it is scary. I tried listening to it this mourning and couldn’t, Dragging a Dead Dear Up a Hill should strictly be listened to at night. You will understand upon listening to merely the first track.

Grouper- Heavy Water/I\’d Rather Be Sleeping

O and I picked up a copy of Animal Collectve’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, and Antony & the Johnsons’, The Crying Light which are both amazing. This had been a good week so far for me musically.

I saw the hype, went to the listening party, oogled at the trippy cover artwork and waited for the day that I would actually be able to have my own copy of Merriweather Post Pavilion. Through all of this pre-release anticipation I still had somewhat of a feeling that the release might turn out to be not that great. Usually when there is this much build up for any one thing, it turns out to be somewhat of a flop. But that is not the case here. Animal Collective’s latest realease was everything that I had hoped for, but nothing that I expected. There is no question that their sound is changing, but only from good to better. And hey, if I want any of the random bursts of yelling that persisted in their previous albums, I can just go pull one of those out and have a listen. Those guys must be doing something right because everything they have released recently has blown my mind. I think that this half of the decade musically, will be remembered by animal collective and any releases that have stemmed from this group.

List of things that are generally disliked

By Wick Nilson and Sam Boren

1. Homework
2. Waking up early
3. meat loaf
4. brussel sprouts
5. traffic
6. mean people
7. waiting
8. politicians
9. George W Bush
10. spiders
11. spinning Mac wheel
12. hard labor
13. poop
14. loud mouths
15. know it alls
16. Gym class
17. Jesse Green
18. cleaning
19. broken pencils
20. when other people tear or write on your paper
21. when people puts scraps of paper on you
22. airplane food
23. math, although I personally have no problem with it
24. being out of control
25. having too much control
26. when someone else has too  much control
27. missing a number when you are listing, then hafting to go back and fix all of the succeeding numbers
28. Thinking up clever conclusions
29. making mistakes with pens
30. when spell check doesn’t catch all of your misspelled words.

For the past few weeks I have been searching all of my normal record stores for one specific CD. Grouper’s Dragging a Dead Dear Up a Hill. And NO ONE has it. Everywhere that I try says the the darn thing is backorder and not to expect it any time soon. This CD should not be this hard to find, considering Liz Harris is from Portland. I will continue on my search today by taking the bus down to Music Millennium and searching their inventory. And while I am there I might as well stay for the listening party of the new Animal Collective!

Update-  So, wen’t to Music Millennium earlier, and it just so happens that they sold the last copy approximatly four minutes before I came into the store. Yeah, I am not so happy. On a side note, Merriweather Post Pavilion sounds amazing and I can’t wait for the 20th to see the CD release. I am almost thinking of going to get the vinyl just so I can have it earlier. And thanks to a store worker who didn’t know what was going on, I got one of the posters and promotion codes to download some free songs.

Well this year of indie rock news has officially ended with a bang. Zooey Deschanel of acting/She & Him fame, and Ben Gibbard of Death Cab have announced they will tie the knot some time in the future! Could this mean a collaboration  on a  record in the near future? She & the other Him? Could 09′ see the most indie rock baby of all time? Only time will tell.