Animal Collective – What Would I Want? Sky

More up today from the experimental music ensemble Animal Collective and their most recent EP Fall Be Kind, released digitally on November 23rd of this year, and physically on the 15th of December.  What Would I Want? Sky found it’s way into the #11 spot on Pitchfork’s Top 100 Tracks of 2009, and was the 2nd song ever to receive a 10-out-of-10 rating from the publication;  the first was While You Wait for the Others from the Brooklyn-based indie-rock band Grizzly Bear.  Interestingly, the song features the first ever legal Grateful Dead sample via Unbroken Chain.  Jam Band 2.0 pays fine homage to the style’s trailblazers with an overexposed drum-powered intro that blends wonderfully into what can only be described as perfect electro-choral pop.  For more from Animal Collective, we’ve also posted a track from their universally acclaimed 2009 LP Merriweather Post Pavilion below.

Animal Collective – My Girls

What would I want… Sky!

Is everything alright?
You feeling lonely?
You feeling homely?
You’re not the only
Is everything alright?
You feeling moany?
you feeling stoney?
You’re not the only
Do you get up up up?
I stop and go above me
Too bad they can’t help me
Here in the right way
Do I get up up up?
I stop and look around me
Green, where the color should be
What is the right way?
Old glasses clinking and a new board is blinking
and I -
I should be floating but I’m weighted by thinking
That I got on the river
Really can’t make it change
And the sky got filled up too fast
and the taxi man’s saying, “You betta
give him your money;
stop daydreaming, dude!”
When the point of horizon is hiding from you
What would you want sky?

Are you taking it lightly?
Lost in the flurries
You start to worry
You will be buried
Taking it lightly
and so I hurry
I start to worry
Here come them flurries

Do you get up up up?
I stop and go above me
Too bad they can’t help me
What is the right way?
Do I get up up up?
I stop and look around me
Green, where the color should be
What is the right way?
Old glasses clinking and a new board is blinking
and I -
I should be floating but I’m weighted by thinking
That I got on the river
Really can’t make it change
And the sky got filled up too fast
and the taxi man’s saying, “You betta
give him your money;
stop daydreaming, dude!”
When the point of horizon is hiding from you
What would you want sky?

What would I want sky!

What would I want sky!

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