New Weird America
New Weird America describes a psychedelic musical movement started in the mid 2000s. The term is generally believed to have been coined by David Keenan in the August 2003 issue of The Wire, following the Brattleboro Free Folk Festival organized by Matt Valentine and Ron Schneiderman. It is a play on Greil Marcus's phrase "Old Weird America" as used in his book Invisible Republic, which deals with the lineage connecting the pre-war folk performers on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music to Bob Dylan and his milieu. Read Full BioNew Weird America describes a psychedelic musical movement started in the mid 2000s. The term is generally believed to have been coined by David Keenan in the August 2003 issue of The Wire, following the Brattleboro Free Folk Festival organized by Matt Valentine and Ron Schneiderman. It is a play on Greil Marcus's phrase "Old Weird America" as used in his book Invisible Republic, which deals with the lineage connecting the pre-war folk performers on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music to Bob Dylan and his milieu. The musical style described as New Weird America is mainly derived from psychedelic rock and folk groups of the 1960s and 1970s, including American performers Holy Modal Rounders and English group The Pentangle and other psychedelic groups, but it also finds inspiration in such disparate sources as metal, free jazz, electronic music, noise music, tropicalia, and early and mid-20th century American folk music. Another primary inspiration is outsider music, often played by technically naïve (and often socially estranged) musicians, such as The Shaggs, Roky Erickson, and Jandek.

Other genre classifications of similar period and aesthetics are psychedelic rock, acid folk, psychedelic folk, free folk, freak folk and freakbeat.

Many works of the genre are issued in small editions and distributed independently. The music has been covered extensively by L.A.-based Arthur, which ran in-depth pieces on Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, CocoRosie, Animal Collective, and Six Organs of Admittance, released the definitive New Weird America compilation The Golden Apples of the Sun, and curated the ArthurFest (2005) and ArthurBall (2006) and events, featuring a variety of artists from the movement.

Although many artists record and/or perform with multiple bands, New Weird America is not a unified movement; the associated artists are often classified as such by journalists and the press.
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Animal Collective Lyrics


I was walking on feet just like my fathers and my knees were trying to reach you at
Your mothers cause my nose was screaming that you smelled like a lover but my hands
Were happy to treat you like a brother then

We do the dance up on the plains
Then I shake your shoulders
You push me down into the grains
Who rubs our noses in the night? we do we do

Pow pow now now pow pow now now

I've been into the plants and simple treasures
And I sew patches on pants and I get pleasure
And I don't make particular plans cause they don't matter
If you keep on foolin in bed with my sleeping patterns

We do the dance up on the plains
Then I shake your shoulders
You push me down into the grains
Who rubs our noses in the night? we do we do

What's with all the changes since the time I was aware its like the apple eating people that we once were aren't there
Did they empty out their pockets and debase their younger faces and you must make sure your happy when you leave your summer places
Pretty little femur sitting in my cherry dream boat id be sad if your rejected from my hip bone and my knee if I sailed away from continents and touched my lovers hair then you'd be very happy if I touched her there

You'd be very happy if I touched her there, I was very nervous how I felt in there I was very cautious whatd you say hey there
Would you like to see me often though you don't need to see me often
Cause id like to see you often though I don't need to see you often

We do the dance up on the plains
Then I shake your shoulders
You push me down into the grains
Who rubs our noses in the night? we do we do

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skeeterknees

bruh animal collective



bruh animal collective

Ben B

bruh some guy grabbed me while I was trying to take a piss at one of their shows back in 2009 and yelled this in my face

CC

pow pow now now... It makes me feel like i'm 16 all over again

Gigi G.

YES ❤️

tjskelly100

I listened to this song high so much I think it kind of gets me a little high when I listen to it even thought I'm sober.

Chacha5678

i remember when i thought this was the weirdest song i had ever heard in my life hahaha. oh how i love this so

Lagomorphen

Holy shit this so much. I was like WhoAH wHAT Is THIs musIC iT DoeSNt geT ANy WeiRDEr thAN tHis

then death grips happened and it all spiraled down from there.

D Harper

so i swear this has been my favorite song for almost a decade now. feels weird to say that

Eugene Martone

kamalmanzukie it really feels like it captured some of the spirit of that time somehow

Haydn Anderson

This song is like something hippies would dance to around a big tree at night, miles from civilization.
Which is a good thing, of course.

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