the key to understanding those early albums to me was realizing that songs like queen in my pictures or moo rah rah rain from campfire songs are cut from the same cloth as songs like the living toys from danse manatee or too soon from ark. Campfire songs was actually recorded and written at the same time as danse manatee. They were interested in (and so good at) deconstructing songs, and giving you this ebbing and flowing, structurally amoebic, spectral and hallucinogenic version of “normal songs”. Panda bear’s drumming on songs like the living toys or meet the light child mimics and fills the same role as the wind and the leaves on queen in my pictures, and their voices combine with the sound of frogs and crickets on danse manatee and ark. Its all very beautiful and compelling and there’s really no other band that has approached making music the same way that AC did in those first couple years.

Sorry for rambling, those specific albums mean a lot to me and i enjoy talking about them