Album: Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song was purposely composed as a back to back track with "Guy's Eyes." Geologist (aka Brian Weitz) explained to Drowned In Sound: "I had two different loops of these flutes, which we decided to use to join the songs together."
  • Geologist told Drowned In Sound: "Dave ('Avey Tare' Portner) wrote 'Taste' but then Noah ('Panda Bear' Lennox) wrote his own vocal part for it that's like a completely different song over the top."
  • Brian "Geologist" Weltz told the French magazine VoxPop: "This is a new version of a song by David ("Avey Tare" Portner) that we had stored away for a long time. It had left us all a little perplexed as something did not work. We all worked on it to make it less angular. So much so that it became my favorite song on the album along with 'Guys Eyes.' For me, they are inseparable."

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