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“ Merriweather Post Pavilion is the eighth studio album by American indie rock group Animal Collective, released in January 2009 on Domino Records. The album is named after the Columbia, Maryland venue, Merriweather Post Pavilion. At nearly 55 minutes in length, the album is the group's longest since its debut, Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished. A plan to perform at the actual Merriweather Post Pavilion after the album's release was ultimately discarded, though the band eventually did perform there on July 9, 2011. According to review aggregate site Metacritic, Merriweather was the most critically acclaimed album of 2009.

Background
After recording Strawberry Jam in January 2007, Deakin (Josh Dibb, guitarist) decided he would take time off from the group for undisclosed personal reasons. As a result, the group went about writing a new batch of songs to be played without guitar. Drawing inspiration from Panda Bear's Person Pitch, the band used samplers as its primary instruments. The group debuted nine of these songs, most of which would later appear on the album, in May 2007 and toured with them through 2008.

Recording
To record its eighth studio album, Animal Collective sought the services of Ben H. Allen as co-producer. In an interview with [......] ”

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