Still not 'getting' Animal Collective

I've been listening to Merriweather Post Pavillion since it came out a year and a bit ago. I played some tracks from it on the radio show a couple of months after it came out (Brother Sport, Summertime Clothes), I've clocked up more than a hundred tracks worth of listens on LastFM, and a track from the follow-up Fall Be Kind E.P. made it onto a mix I made for my girlfriend. But, but, but, but, but.

I don't get it. There isn't a cohesive atmosphere from track to track that makes me want to spend time with the record,  a lot of the songs don't seem to go anywhere, the whole thing is a bit incomprehensible really. I like both of the singer's voices and a couple of tracks stand out as being catchy and fun to listen to, but the record just isn't especially interesting.

Which wouldn't normally bother me, I'd just drop the thing and move on. But when the consensus of the part of the internet I get my music suggestions from is that something is the 'Record of the Year' I want to make sure I'm not missing something; I mean there could be something awesome going on that I can't see yet. There's been plenty of records I've gone from hating to loving. The Streets, The Libertines, Every Hip-Hop track I wrote off before about a year and a half ago, Neutral Milk Hotel for crying out loud. Couldn't stand them before something clicked and I got what was going on. I keep thinking that's what's going on here.

Thing is, I don't hate MPP. It's just a bit boring. There are decent tracks (I really like Summertime Clothes). If there was something about it rubbing me up the wrong way I could see myself getting past it and enjoying the record as a whole but that isn't what's happening here. It's just not very interesting.

So I'll probably stop listening to it. Then come back to it in a month or two and try again. It's compulsive.