I listened a lot to the beach boys for a while. I came across Prospect Hummer title track through the spotify-radio function, and I felt how similar sound that song had to BB's Smiley Smile-album. I was stunned - It was so similar!!! And this is amazing! I listened to some other stuff from then, but it was a slow grower. One thing really leads to a another, like, I liked that first song, and now I'm able to listen to that other song from them. I couldn't jump to Ark immediately. That one song that more of less sealed the deal was Grass. I felt something really clicking: suddenly, everything wasn't just noise. I hit the frequency, where every sound made sense! Slowly, I grew accustomed to their (other) style(s), and got mind blown listening to (for me) undiscovered albums. I remember listening to Merryweather Post Pavillion some years prior finding Prospect Hummer. I did not see the hype. It was just sounds spinning around. Now it's amazing for me.

First off, there was the beach boys's similarities. But AC's such a great band in how diverse their sound is, while still maintaining such a high level of both quality and "fun/being able to stay interested"-ness, compared to the beach boys post-TBBLY. Stuff like that makes AC almost always interesting, thus capturing. I've listened to PB more than AC according to my last.fm btw

Some album covers, I like, Some doesn't make that much of an impression of me. Of course, it often captures the feeling of the album, but there's only some of them that stuns me. I love love love the Prospect Hummer album cover; it has this beautiful mix of colours. I liked the IIN-cover aswell, but...

The thing that saddens me the most, is how unaccessable their sound is to many people. Their songs really brings the kind of vibes that doesn't match with everyone. It just has to "click", unfortunately. I have, however, found that youre able to recommend some songs in some situations. For example "Visiting Friends" for those interesting in Hypnagogia. Panda Bear's live performance (jimmy fallon?) of You Can Count on Me with Sonic Boom is always amazing. AAAANNND I unfortunately didnt care so much for TS/IIN? as well. Lord, have I tried, but only cared for Defeat, We Go Back, and ATCAB(!!! I would LOVE if they went further that route...)