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{{Infobox song
{{Infobox single <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Songs -->
| Name = Summertime Clothes
| name = Summertime Clothes
| Cover = Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes -2009-.jpg
| cover = Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes -2009-.jpg
| Artist = [[Animal Collective]]
| alt =
| type = single
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| from Album = [[Merriweather Post Pavilion (album)|Merriweather Post Pavilion]]
| Released = June 29, 2009
| artist = [[Animal Collective]]
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| album = [[Merriweather Post Pavilion (album)|Merriweather Post Pavilion]]
| Format = [[12-inch single|12" vinyl]], [[Music download|digital download]]
| released = June 29, 2009
| Recorded = February 2008
| recorded = February 2008
| Genre = [[Neo-psychedelia]], [[psychedelic pop]], [[experimental music|experimental]], [[synthpop]]
| Length = 4:33
| studio =
| Label = [[Domino Records|Domino]]
| venue =
| genre = [[Electropop]]<ref name= "1001 2015">{{cite book|first= Eloise|last= Parker|editor-first= Robert |editor-last= Dimery |year= 2015 |title= 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die|chapter= Animal Collective - "Summertime Clothes|publisher= [[Rizzoli Libri|Universe]]|location= New York|page= 878}}</ref>
| Writer = [[Avey Tare|David Portner (Avey Tare)]], [[Panda Bear (musician)|Noah Lennox (Panda Bear)]], [[Geologist (musician)|Brian Weitz (Geologist)]]
| length = 4:33
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| Producer = Ben H. Allen, Animal Collective
| label = [[Domino Recording Company|Domino]]
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| Last single = "[[My Girls (Animal Collective song)|My Girls]]"<br />(2009)
| writer = Animal Collective
| This single = '''"Summertime Clothes"'''<br />(2009)
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| producer = Ben H. Allen, Animal Collective
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| Next single = "[[Brother Sport]]"<br />(2009)
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| prev_title = [[My Girls (Animal Collective song)|My Girls]]
| prev_year = 2009
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| next_title = [[Brother Sport]]
| next_year = 2009
}}
}}


"'''Summertime Clothes'''" is a song by [[experimental pop]] band [[Animal Collective]]. It was released on June 29, 2009 in the UK and on July 7, 2009 in the US as the second single from the band's 2009 album ''[[Merriweather Post Pavilion (album)|Merriweather Post Pavilion]]'', by [[Domino Records]].<ref>[http://pitchfork.com/news/35322-new-animal-collective-single-out-soon/ New Animal Collective Single Out Soon]</ref> The song was originally known as "Bearhug."
"'''Summertime Clothes'''" is a song by [[experimental pop]] band [[Animal Collective]]. It was released on June 29, 2009 in the UK and on July 7, 2009 in the US as the second single from the band's 2009 album ''[[Merriweather Post Pavilion (album)|Merriweather Post Pavilion]]'', by [[Domino Recording Company|Domino Records]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dombal|first=Ryan|date=2009-05-13|title=New Animal Collective Single Out Soon|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/35322-new-animal-collective-single-out-soon/|access-date=2020-06-17|website=Pitchfork|language=en-us}}</ref> The song was originally known as "Bearhug."


The single features three new remixes of the song by Dâm-Funk, Leon Day, and Zomby, and is available as a 12" vinyl single and as a digital download.<ref>[http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=14352 Summertime Clothes Songfacts]</ref>
The single features three new remixes of the song by Dâm-Funk, Leon Day, and Zomby, and is available as a 12" vinyl single and as a digital download.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Summertime Clothes by Animal Collective|url=https://www.songfacts.com/facts/animal-collective/summertime-clothes|access-date=2020-06-17|website=[[SongFacts]]}}</ref>


==Background==
==Background==
The original name of the song was "Bearhug" and featured different lyrics and higher pitched-vocals. In a 2009 interview with [[France|French]] magazine ''VoxPop'', [[David Portner]] said, "The melody of this song came suddenly, while we were rehearsing at my house. It’s so simple and we immediately loved it. I tried to find an additional melody, much more dark and weird, but nobody liked it! In general, I write the most ‘complex’ songs in Animal Collective, with structures A / B / C / D / E… but I wanted to keep the almost naive simplicity of this song." <ref>http://www.voxpopmag.com/tout-musique/154-animal-collective-merriweather-post-paviliontrack-by-track/</ref>
The original name of the song was "Bearhug" and featured different lyrics and higher pitched-vocals. In a 2009 interview with [[France|French]] magazine ''VoxPop'', [[David Portner]] said, "The melody of this song came suddenly, while we were rehearsing at my house. It’s so simple and we immediately loved it. I tried to find an additional melody, much more dark and weird, but nobody liked it! In general, I write the most ‘complex’ songs in Animal Collective, with structures A / B / C / D / E… but I wanted to keep the almost naive simplicity of this song."<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavillion " Track-By-Track "|url=http://www.voxpopmag.com/tout-musique/154-animal-collective-merriweather-post-paviliontrack-by-track/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190226084040/http://www.voxpopmag.com/tout-musique/154-animal-collective-merriweather-post-paviliontrack-by-track/|archive-date=2019-02-26|access-date=2020-06-17|website=Vox Pop Mag}}</ref>


''Merriweather Post Pavilion'' featured more vocals than most of Animal Collective's other albums, and as a result the band had trouble finding ground with their producer and amongst themselves about how the vocals were to be mixed. "Summertime Clothes" was where most of the band had trouble agreeing with one another about the mix.
''Merriweather Post Pavilion'' featured more vocals than most of Animal Collective's other albums, and as a result the band had trouble agreeing with their producer about how the vocals were to be mixed, especially when it came to "Summertime Clothes". [[Brian Weitz]] stated in an interview with ''Sound to Sound'', "Pretty early on in the mixing we realised we were gonna have to find the middle ground, so we would do three mixes, where the vocals would be where we wanted them to be, then one louder where Ben wanted them to be and then one even lower than where we wanted them to be, just in case we changed our mind. It was very, very rare that we went with the loud vocal version. ‘Summertime Clothes’ is the biggest example of where we disagreed. Even after we finished the record we were still thinking maybe the vocals are too loud on that song. And Ben felt the opposite way."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2015-08-22|title=Behind the Song: Animal Collective - 'Summertime Clothes'|url=https://culturedarm.com/behind-the-song-animal-collective-summertime-clothes/|access-date=2020-06-17|website=Culturedarm|language=en-US}}</ref>

[[Brian Weitz]] stated in an interview with ''Sound to Sound'', "Pretty early on in the mixing we realised we were gonna have to find the middle ground, so we would do three mixes, where the vocals would be where we wanted them to be, then one louder where Ben wanted them to be and then one even lower than where we wanted them to be, just in case we changed our mind. It was very, very rare that we went with the loud vocal version. ‘Summertime Clothes’ is the biggest example of where we disagreed. Even after we finished the record we were still thinking maybe the vocals are too loud on that song. And Ben felt the opposite way." <ref>http://culturedarm.com/behind-the-song-animal-collective-summertime-clothes/</ref>


==Music video==
==Music video==
[[File:Screenshot from the music video of "Summertime Clothes" by Animal Collective.jpg|thumb|left|A screenshot from the music video showing one of the clothed figures dancing next to one of the women in giant bubbles.]]
[[File:Screenshot from the music video of "Summertime Clothes" by Animal Collective.jpg|thumb|left|A screenshot from the music video showing one of the clothed figures dancing next to one of the women in giant bubbles.]]
A music [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxhaRgJUMl8 video] was released for the song on June 12, 2009,<ref>[http://www.stylecaster.com/news/3236/animal-collective-release-music-video-for-summertime-clothes] Stylecaster: Animal Collective Release Music Video for "Summertime Clothes"</ref> directed by Dan Perez, who also worked on the "[[Who Could Win a Rabbit]]" video and the band's film [[ODDSAC]].<ref>[http://www.myanimalhome.net/ Summertime Clothes Video]</ref>
A music [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxhaRgJUMl8 video] was released for the song on June 12, 2009,<ref>[http://www.stylecaster.com/news/3236/animal-collective-release-music-video-for-summertime-clothes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617213045/http://www.stylecaster.com/news/3236/animal-collective-release-music-video-for-summertime-clothes |date=2009-06-17 }} Stylecaster: Animal Collective Release Music Video for "Summertime Clothes"</ref> directed by Dan Perez, who also worked on the "[[Who Could Win a Rabbit]]" video and the band's film [[ODDSAC]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxhaRgJUMl8 Summertime Clothes Video]</ref>


The video shows a group of people in large, glowing bubbles resembling [[Amniotic sac|embryonic sacs]] with giant red legs and buttocks dancing in rhythmic movements and patterns, while figures wearing mismatched colored clothing dance erratically, with flashing colored lights illuminating them. They all dance around a glowing [[ice sculpture]] of a young boy and girl, which is slowly melting. Occasionally, a screaming white face is seen flashing among the erratic dancing.
The video shows a group of people in large, glowing bubbles resembling [[Amniotic sac|embryonic sacs]] with giant red legs and buttocks dancing in rhythmic movements and patterns, while figures wearing mismatched colored clothing dance erratically, with flashing colored lights illuminating them. They all dance around a glowing [[ice sculpture]] of a young boy and girl, which is slowly melting. Occasionally, a screaming white face is seen flashing among the erratic dancing.
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==Critical reception==
==Critical reception==
The single received critical acclaim. Melissa Locker of ''[[TIME]]'' said, "Animal Collective’s anthem to summer shows the band at it’s idiosyncratic best. The sing-along melody is filled with catchy hooks and a driving beat that screams sunny day."<ref>http://entertainment.time.com/2012/08/14/listen-13-best-indie-songs-of-summer/slide/animal-collective-summertime-clothes/</ref> Mike Deane of ''[[Pop Matters]]'' said the song "manages to hit a perfect balance of pure pop bliss mixed with wonky and interesting electro instrumentation, and it even maintains a few weirder, more classic Animal Collective bits, like the ending repetition of “just you” and the midway slow down that immediately joins the pulsing syncopation." He also stated that if Animal Collective "can make more hits like “Summertime Clothes” I don’t know if I’ll ever listen to another band. That’s right: It’s that good." <ref>http://www.popmatters.com/post/69055-the-only-song-i-need-in-09-animal-collectives-summertime-clothes/</ref>
The single received critical acclaim. Melissa Locker of ''[[TIME]]'' said, "Animal Collective’s anthem to summer shows the band at it’s [sic] idiosyncratic best. The sing-along melody is filled with catchy hooks and a driving beat that screams sunny day."<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Locker|first=Melissa|date=2012-08-13|title=Animal Collective, "Summertime Clothes"|language=en-US|magazine=Time|url=https://entertainment.time.com/2012/08/14/listen-13-best-indie-songs-of-summer/slide/animal-collective-summertime-clothes/|access-date=2020-06-17|issn=0040-781X}}</ref> Mike Deane of ''[[Pop Matters]]'' said the song "manages to hit a perfect balance of pure pop bliss mixed with wonky and interesting electro instrumentation, and it even maintains a few weirder, more classic Animal Collective bits, like the ending repetition of “just you” and the midway slow down that immediately joins the pulsing syncopation." He also stated that if Animal Collective "can make more hits like “Summertime Clothes” I don’t know if I’ll ever listen to another band. That’s right: It’s that good."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Deane|first=Mike|date=2009-01-15|title=The Only Song I Need in '09: Animal Collective's "Summertime Clothes"|url=https://www.popmatters.com/69055-the-only-song-i-need-in-09-animal-collectives-summertime-clothes-2496075033.html|access-date=2020-06-17|website=PopMatters|language=en}}</ref>


Sarah Smith of ''[[FasterLouder]]'' says that Summertime Clothes is "one of Animal Collective’s finest musical moments."<ref>http://fasterlouder.junkee.com/animal-collective-summertime-clothes/804420</ref> Bart Blasengame of [[Paste (magazine)|Paste]] said the single is "a robo-tripping love song where—over a bouncing low end and weird harpsichord crescendos—Tare and Panda Bear’s harmonies sound absolutely Shins-esque."<ref>https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/01/animal-collective-merriweather-post-pavilion-domin.html</ref> ''[[NME]]'' said that the song is a "sun-stroked piece of bio-mechanical mongrel pop with a Neu!-ish rhythm and the feel of Grandaddy in its spacey winsomeness: you could analyse it for hours."<ref>http://www.nme.com/reviews/album/reviews-animal-collective-10043</ref> [[Will Hermes]] of [[Rolling Stone Magazine|Rolling Stone]] stated "''Summertime Clothes'' is a swirling pastoral with dance-music thrust."<ref>http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/merriweather-post-pavilion-20090122</ref>
Sarah Smith of ''[[FasterLouder]]'' says that Summertime Clothes is "one of Animal Collective’s finest musical moments."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Smith|first=Sarah|date=2009-08-18|title=Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes|url=http://fasterlouder.junkee.com/animal-collective-summertime-clothes/804420|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108144018/http://fasterlouder.junkee.com/animal-collective-summertime-clothes/804420|archive-date=2016-11-08|access-date=2020-06-17|website=Junkee}}</ref> Bart Blasengame of [[Paste (magazine)|Paste]] said the single is "a robo-tripping love song where—over a bouncing low end and weird harpsichord crescendos—Tare and Panda Bear’s harmonies sound absolutely Shins-esque."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Blasengame|first=Bart|date=2009-01-06|title=Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/animal-collective/animal-collective-merriweather-post-pavilion-domin/|access-date=2020-06-17|website=pastemagazine.com|language=en}}</ref> ''[[NME]]'' said that the song is a "sun-stroked piece of bio-mechanical mongrel pop with a Neu!-ish rhythm and the feel of Grandaddy in its spacey winsomeness: you could analyse it for hours."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mackay|first=Emily|date=2009-01-09|title=Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews-animal-collective-10043-341361|access-date=2020-06-17|website=NME|language=en-GB}}</ref> [[Will Hermes]] of ''[[Rolling Stone Magazine|Rolling Stone]]'' stated "''Summertime Clothes'' is a swirling pastoral with dance-music thrust."<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Hermes|first=Will|date=2009-01-22|title=Merriweather Post Pavilion|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/merriweather-post-pavilion-188563/|access-date=2020-06-17|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}}</ref>


==In popular culture==
==In popular culture==
*"Summertime Clothes" is featured in the soundtrack to the video game [[Skate 3]].
*"Summertime Clothes" is featured in the soundtrack to the video game ''[[Skate 3]]''.
*Animal Collective performed the song live prior to its release on the [[Late Show with David Letterman]] on May 7, 2009.<ref>http://culturedarm.com/behind-the-song-animal-collective-summertime-clothes/</ref>
*Animal Collective performed the song live prior to its release on the ''[[Late Show with David Letterman]]'' on May 7, 2009.<ref name=":0" />


==Remixes==
==Remixes==
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==References==
==References==
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[[Category:2009 singles]]
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"Summertime Clothes"
Single by Animal Collective
from the album Merriweather Post Pavilion
ReleasedJune 29, 2009
RecordedFebruary 2008
GenreElectropop[1]
Length4:33
LabelDomino
Songwriter(s)Animal Collective
Producer(s)Ben H. Allen, Animal Collective
Animal Collective singles chronology
"My Girls"
(2009) 		"Summertime Clothes"
(2009) 		"Brother Sport"
(2009)

"Summertime Clothes" is a song by experimental pop band Animal Collective. It was released on June 29, 2009 in the UK and on July 7, 2009 in the US as the second single from the band's 2009 album Merriweather Post Pavilion, by Domino Records.[2] The song was originally known as "Bearhug."

The single features three new remixes of the song by Dâm-Funk, Leon Day, and Zomby, and is available as a 12" vinyl single and as a digital download.[3]

Background

[edit]

The original name of the song was "Bearhug" and featured different lyrics and higher pitched-vocals. In a 2009 interview with French magazine VoxPop, David Portner said, "The melody of this song came suddenly, while we were rehearsing at my house. It’s so simple and we immediately loved it. I tried to find an additional melody, much more dark and weird, but nobody liked it! In general, I write the most ‘complex’ songs in Animal Collective, with structures A / B / C / D / E… but I wanted to keep the almost naive simplicity of this song."[4]

Merriweather Post Pavilion featured more vocals than most of Animal Collective's other albums, and as a result the band had trouble agreeing with their producer about how the vocals were to be mixed, especially when it came to "Summertime Clothes". Brian Weitz stated in an interview with Sound to Sound, "Pretty early on in the mixing we realised we were gonna have to find the middle ground, so we would do three mixes, where the vocals would be where we wanted them to be, then one louder where Ben wanted them to be and then one even lower than where we wanted them to be, just in case we changed our mind. It was very, very rare that we went with the loud vocal version. ‘Summertime Clothes’ is the biggest example of where we disagreed. Even after we finished the record we were still thinking maybe the vocals are too loud on that song. And Ben felt the opposite way."[5]

Music video

[edit]
A screenshot from the music video showing one of the clothed figures dancing next to one of the women in giant bubbles.

A music video was released for the song on June 12, 2009,[6] directed by Dan Perez, who also worked on the "Who Could Win a Rabbit" video and the band's film ODDSAC.[7]

The video shows a group of people in large, glowing bubbles resembling embryonic sacs with giant red legs and buttocks dancing in rhythmic movements and patterns, while figures wearing mismatched colored clothing dance erratically, with flashing colored lights illuminating them. They all dance around a glowing ice sculpture of a young boy and girl, which is slowly melting. Occasionally, a screaming white face is seen flashing among the erratic dancing.

The video prominently features the Brooklyn-based FLEX dance crew.

Critical reception

[edit]

The single received critical acclaim. Melissa Locker of TIME said, "Animal Collective’s anthem to summer shows the band at it’s [sic] idiosyncratic best. The sing-along melody is filled with catchy hooks and a driving beat that screams sunny day."[8] Mike Deane of Pop Matters said the song "manages to hit a perfect balance of pure pop bliss mixed with wonky and interesting electro instrumentation, and it even maintains a few weirder, more classic Animal Collective bits, like the ending repetition of “just you” and the midway slow down that immediately joins the pulsing syncopation." He also stated that if Animal Collective "can make more hits like “Summertime Clothes” I don’t know if I’ll ever listen to another band. That’s right: It’s that good."[9]

Sarah Smith of FasterLouder says that Summertime Clothes is "one of Animal Collective’s finest musical moments."[10] Bart Blasengame of Paste said the single is "a robo-tripping love song where—over a bouncing low end and weird harpsichord crescendos—Tare and Panda Bear’s harmonies sound absolutely Shins-esque."[11] NME said that the song is a "sun-stroked piece of bio-mechanical mongrel pop with a Neu!-ish rhythm and the feel of Grandaddy in its spacey winsomeness: you could analyse it for hours."[12] Will Hermes of Rolling Stone stated "Summertime Clothes is a swirling pastoral with dance-music thrust."[13]

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Remixes

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Released alongside the single were three remixes by Dâm-Funk, Leon Day AKA L.D., and Zomby respectively.

No.TitleLength
1."Summertime Clothes" (Album Version)4:33
2."Summertime Clothes" (Dâm-Funk Remix)5:38
3."Summertime Clothes" (Leon Day AKA L.D. Remix)6:20
4."Summertime Clothes" (Zomby's Analog Lego Mix)3:49

References

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  1. ^ Parker, Eloise (2015). "Animal Collective - "Summertime Clothes". In Dimery, Robert (ed.). 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die. New York: Universe. p. 878.
  2. ^ Dombal, Ryan (2009-05-13). "New Animal Collective Single Out Soon". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  3. ^ "Summertime Clothes by Animal Collective". SongFacts. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  4. ^ "Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavillion " Track-By-Track "". Vox Pop Mag. Archived from the original on 2019-02-26. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  5. ^ a b "Behind the Song: Animal Collective - 'Summertime Clothes'". Culturedarm. 2015-08-22. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  6. ^ [1] Archived 2009-06-17 at the Wayback Machine Stylecaster: Animal Collective Release Music Video for "Summertime Clothes"
  7. ^ Summertime Clothes Video
  8. ^ Locker, Melissa (2012-08-13). "Animal Collective, "Summertime Clothes"". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  9. ^ Deane, Mike (2009-01-15). "The Only Song I Need in '09: Animal Collective's "Summertime Clothes"". PopMatters. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  10. ^ Smith, Sarah (2009-08-18). "Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes". Junkee. Archived from the original on 2016-11-08. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  11. ^ Blasengame, Bart (2009-01-06). "Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion". pastemagazine.com. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  12. ^ Mackay, Emily (2009-01-09). "Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion". NME. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  13. ^ Hermes, Will (2009-01-22). "Merriweather Post Pavilion". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
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