| "Brother Sport" | ||||
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| Single by Animal Collective | ||||
| from the album Merriweather Post Pavilion | ||||
| Released | November 9, 2009 | |||
| Recorded | February 2008 | |||
| Genre | Pop,[1] Afrobeat[1] | |||
| Length | 6:00 | |||
| Label | Domino | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Animal Collective | |||
| Producer(s) | Ben H. Allen, Animal Collective | |||
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"Brother Sport" is the third single from Animal Collective's 2009 album Merriweather Post Pavilion, released on November 9, 2009 by Domino Records.[2] The single is available as a 10" vinyl single and as a digital download. It was written by Panda Bear to encourage his brother into talking about previous ordeals that had troubled him.[3] The single's B-side is a live recording of "Bleed" with an extended jam linking into "What Would I Want? Sky" recorded May 27, 2009 at Henry Miller Memorial Library, Big Sur, CA.[4]
New Musical Express called it a "resplendent orgy of Afrobeat pop with touches of hard house, like Orbital double-dropping with Fela Kuti or Vampire Weekend in space."[1] In 2012, Stereogum ranked the song number two on their list of the 10 greatest Animal Collective songs,[5] and in 2015, Paste ranked the song number one on their list of the 12 greatest Animal Collective songs.[6]
