animal collective

music for animals.

m.

anybody pick up any of their t-shirts on their last tour? i bought one. bright turquoise with flourescent designs akin to danse manatee the art! it's too small sadly. the wife wears it.

m.

this is brill

I mean it as something positive -- these are records I listen to in a less-than-conscious way. Maybe akin to what Eno was talking about way back when regarding his "ambient" music, but with a more organic (shitty word, sorry) feel.

details

www.fat-cat.co.uk

fat cat are also releasing their last two albums as a double cd in the u.k. next monday so i will finally get to hear them.

God bless them. I hope that Avey Tare eventually comes around to making more "pop" records at some point, though. I think that melody, lyrics, and structure suits their style very well. I can appreciate the crazier, more free-form music, but it doesn't move me nearly as much.

RE: Kompakt gig...Panda Bear has performed while singing on top of Other Music's Scotty Mau(a fantastic DJ) before, they called themselves "Jane"

D'oh! I'd love to hear them. I'll be in NY later this month. Do you think there's a snowball's chance in hell they might still have any?

has anyone else heard Hollindagain?

actually i should listen to all their albums lots on headphones, i don't get to play them much at home cos ppl tend to complain.

What's this "Jane" CDR??

Ho hum. Is Hollindagain the live album people are always talking about?

jane is a duo featuring panda bear (under his own name) and another party i wasn't able to place. very beat-oriented, possibly even clubby. i have no idea where their cdrs might be available, i got a copy from a friend of a friend, who found it in a used been in a store that isn't around anymore in houston.

m

February 21st - New York - Knitting Factory with the Numbers

March 27th - New York - Anthology Film Archives

Deacon told me it might even be danceable!
Plus jane is playing with Orthrealm and Black dice next Friday at the Knit. New York's long dark winter is over.

but as far as the AT & PB stuff is concerned, what little I've heard all sounds like Cornelius.

Roger, have you only heard Spirit...? If you like TT I would reccomend Here Comes the Indian esp the "Two Sails" and "Infant Dressing Table" tracks.

i was expecting some sort of fried elephant six acid folk - instead i got dense sheets of tape manipulation and scary noises. i honestly feel this stuff is closer to stockhausen than elephant six.

i've heard some live jackie o motherfucker bootlegs (very heavy on turntables) that start to approximate the sound but yeah, it's very very tapeloop/effects heavy.

The new record, recorded as a duo of AT and PB, is maybe the most acid folk material thus far. It is mainly acoustic guitars, fun percusion, and catchy (but still fucked) songwriting.

x-o-x-xo

i have much to trade - email me if yr lookin for anything - can also pay postage and some extra if ya want

by the way, Avey's split with Grubbs on FatCat is awesome. there's an animal collective lp coming out on Fat Cat this year too

i dont like this that much any more either tho.

zemko have you heard hollindagain?

it was a good pun. it was just too punky. people would call me fassy and think it hurt. close your eyes little one! ack

i hate it like the universe

I wanna hear this after vahid's stockhausen mention. he also sounds like the beatles.

my flatmate was ill yesterday and i promised to cook her dinner, hence no double leopards for me...

might as well bring it up again, but if anyone would want to trade for the jane cd or has it on slsk i would would love to hear it!

they posted some new tour dates on the paw tracks site, euro / uk mainly (in april):

http://carparkrecords.com/pawtracks.html

why don't they play atp? : / invite them, malkmus!

wow they're playing glasgow with múm!

here's the line-up fr the triptych gig:

Andre Williams, Explosions in the sky, Fennesz, Animal Collective, Dabrye, Matthew Dear, jd Twitch and jg wilkes, eyoe dj's.

just got an advance copy of the new animal collective in the mail...and the article included w. the press sheet is the one i wrote! ahaha! the circle is complete!

http://carparkrecords.com/pawtracks.html here are the dates. not sure what the 3rd one is...

April 25th - London, Old Vic Theatre w/ múm

May 6th - London, Buffalo Bar - TBC

*this may be a lie.

April 30th - London, Coronet Theatre, w/ Four Tet

actually it's with loads of ppl, matt dear, explosions in the sky, manitoba etc etc. i'm def going to this one and i guess the buffalo bar too (are tix on sale yet?).

but the half of sung tongs i've just now heard i don't find a tiny bit as good as 'here comes the indian'. i suppose this says something about me huh

peace,
a

i still think they've yet to top spirit... to be perfectly honest.

Agreed, but no more suspect than "it sounds great on a spring night driving on the highway with the windows rolled down." What *doesn't* sound great then?

And music that's "right for every occasion or mood" probably sounds like eggshell wallpaper.

http://www.fat-cat.co.uk/amcollective_small.mov (8megs)
http://www.fat-cat.co.uk/amcollective_large.mov (20megs)

www.fat-cat.co.uk/animal_web.mov

it's nice!

...or they're the Polyphonic Spree for noize dudes...

...or the Moldy Peaches for Laurie Anderson fans...

sung tongs is describable i guess.

panda bear's first album is long OOP (the first Animal Collective related release? 1999?) and very hard to track down material copies of.

(nb: this is a more general point, I don't like nu-AC.)

this is true (about most everything they've done) but what i'm beginning to realize is that not everyone can discern this. obv some effort is required i suppose, but some people are in the swing of looking for at least new-seeming twists in music, having unearthed a lot already, so it's not "effort" exactly. it's a seeking out of surprise on one hand, but also an ability to recognize when an actual surprise has reared up.
others who aren't so inclined generally just refute this whole premise outright, see it as off-putting pathology etc. but usually they have little else but cute scoffing exercises to run through and tend to like to leave it at that. gold-medal cutesy types you know them. i want to feel transported, not inducted into an unserious pavilion of snark, personally.

Right, well, hence the "for people who hate Phish" qualifier. Their noodliness is of a more intellectual sort. They're conceptually noodly.

you should think twice before you say something like this. last night's show had a mostly lit loft with a few colored lights and a chandelier above the bands. the fucking dumbshit dj thought he'd be cute (i think he actually thought he was doing a good job) by flicking the lights on and off. it wasn't ever even in rhythm or during exciting moments.

"self doubt, i'll doubt i'll find a swimming pool"... or something similar?

They had copies of Wastered at the Echo and then sold out. 50% of the audience left after AC played, at the Echo, as well.

Also, if you thought that the show was underattended, you should've been at the Acid Mothers Temple. There were at most 25 people there.

And why are people leaving before Black Dice play? I thought they were better than AC that night.

But even more than that, I don't feel like seeing them live adds anything to the music. You've got one guy looking nervous and afraid, another playing guitar but hidden by his effects case and a third guy sort of dancing in place and twiddling knobs. Basically, the only interaction is when Bjorn cocks his head to the side and mouths something to the other guys.

AMT was at Spaceland one night and KF the next. The KF show was awesome because no one was there, but the a/c was out and it was HOT AS FUCK. They were selling $1 Rolling Rocks to make up for it.

I go see BD because their music in the live setting is so much more visceral, huge and physical than when I play their records in my home. I find recorded-BD and live-BD as two related but vastly difference perspectives of the same band like two wildly different photographs of the same person.

I would personally say: a great deal.

I have Panda Bear's first album - Wifey thinks parts of it sound like Amnesiac-era Radiohead and, though I'd never have drawn that conclusion myself, that seems kinda accurate. It's not too good, in retrospect.

The song "Fire" from it is pretty decent.

it isn't slskable?

it would be great if there was more of an equipment failure in BD's sets and they'd have to revert back to SEMEN OF THE SUN.

Why the sarcasm?
Why edit my quote to change its meaning?
Why jump on me when my point was in contrast to Dean?'s very valid take on BD live (which I am not saying is wrong in any way just diff. than mine.)

The full sentence that I originally wrote was
"I do not go see Black Dice live in order to witness a performance OR MUSIC THEATER."

Maybe I am not making my point. What I am saying is I do not experience Black Dive live like I would, say the Stooges or any other group that performs in the words purest sense like Frank Sinatra or Bowie or Liza or whomever. They move; they dance, they are personalities and their performances work as a form of theater, too. I would not expect this from BD. Half the time my eyes are closed and/or they are not in my field of vision. But, I love their sound via huge fucking PA's.

Does this make sense? Or, is my point still so totally foriegn that the only response possible is sarcasm? I hope not.

And just as a helpful tip to you: At this point in a thread, Jon Williams usually steps in here to say "Shut up, Ben, what do you know? You like Dave Matthews" and it gets me to shut up, since he's right.

Yes ... unfortunately.

I was mostly bothered by him constantly shouting demands to the soundboard - turn off the delay, more vocals in the monitor, less delay, ok i want the delay back - and his seeming lack of interest in just performing. It wasn't like these were highly crafted songs, so they didn't seem to need all of the fuss that was being made over them.

I am suddenly deeply curious to hear this. What about "The Doldrums," Sexy? That seems to be the easiest to find...

http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/arielpink-09.m3u

as I said over there: O.M.G.W.T.F? details!

details are they recorded three songs with vashti in england last spring I think. They were three songs they had left over from the sung tongs era. Fat Cat is releasing it as an ep in may or something. They should have them for sale on their april tour.

1. it's you
2. prospect hummer
3. baleen sample
4. I remember learning how to drive

16th may, 2005

Ok ok i know, Ramones & Spector. But still, sheesh. What's next the Flaming Lips and Syd Barrett?

let's hope so. their collab. with spongebob squarepants was garbage.

what's up w.working w.artists who are artistically strapped?

I didn't realise the Jane, responsible for the magnificent 'Bezerker', was a AC spin-off either.

And no, I don't think it's leaked yet.

-- gygax! (gygax0...), August 30th, 2004 9:20 AM. (gygax!)

"banshee beat"!

Really? It sounds almost like a completely diferrent band to me, there's nothing as immediate as "Leaf House" or "Who Could Win a Rabbit" (though I did like "Grass" a bit, but even that was just a total headfuck), there's so much going on, the vocals sound really different... the production is odd.. it's a lot noiseier... it's just not what I expected, that's all.

that's all true about the faster songs, which seem more like Animal Collective's take on rock - the slower songs are more Sung Tongs-ish. all of it is extremely enjoyable.

hint:

INDIE ROOM

percussion

Did they smoke up with the devil before writing the songs on "Feels"?

"Feels" is a noisier record (in the shoegaze sense) than anything else I've heard from them, I know that has something to do with why I like it so much.

For me Sung Tongs is my fave cos it's completely original and it sounds very organic and meticulously unprepared. Feels is fine, but veers very close to Flaming Lips territory at times. Sung Tongs just sounds like the Beach Boys playing messed up folk songs in the middle of the desert whilst peeling out on the strongest shrooms ever and I love it. One of the most important albums of this decade for me. But as I say, it took me a long time for it to click. Tracks like "Visiting Friends" can be pretty tedious and overlong, but I'd say something like "We Tigers" epitomises the tribal harmonic joy of that point in their career.

I saw a.c. back in july and i'm still impressed. I think the newest material is a lot better than strawberry jam (which is still good). Right now I think this newest stuff is kinda the best dance music ever. specially 'material things' is wonderful techno-ish. Anyone seen them lately and feeling the same?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1HXQ1ybwBM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iSG6U2YcQ0

animal collective is my favorite band to see live. they are always so totally on fire that i feel like i am staring into my heart.

this new material is really cool i am glad

NO

Saw them in Tripod last night. Fucking brilliant. No further discussion required.

Yes, when I saw them live in Berlin a few weeks ago they were astonishing. Total intergalactic balearic in parts, especially for their encore.

saw them in paris two weeks ago. the best live show i've seen.

(and i found them awful twice before)

MindinRewind, EVERY song/album/artist/genre sounds like crap when you describe their music in a series of first person sentences from their perspective. I mean, here's every post-rock song ever.
Look at this we're playing real mellow and slow... now it's kind of loud... UH OH IT'S LOUD NOW!!!!! ------ Now it's quiet again... GETTING KIND OF LOUD... REAL LOUD!!!!! ---- lol now it's quiet.

Wait, how did this not become its own joke thread? I want to see more genres described.

Gauntlet Hair is a relatively unknown pair of dudes who are named Andy and Craig, from the small-ish (23,000 population) Colorado town of Lafayette. The pair garnered a fair amount of attention after being part of the Rhinoceropolis-curated block of Denver-based bands that played at the post-SXSW Mexican extravaganza MtyMx. The band’s track “I Was Thinking… ” is a pretty insatiable guitar stomp that throws some R&B and soul into the lo-fi revival pot, mixing heavily-reverbed guitars with a simple, but undeniably booty-shaking beat. Add in some Animal Collective-style vocal melodies and you’ve got something pretty fantastic.

Does anything quite make you want to not hear a band like "Add in some Animal Collective-style vocal melodies"?

I was this lose to wanting to hear the band but then they throw down that little detail at the last minute and I'm backing out and taking off the headphones

the fact that "post-anco" is a real thing and not just some ironic yuks on a message board blows my mind

Moaning about Animal Collective's aesthetic and bands who may or may not have taken queues from it according to some wack journo

= dud.

Didn't want to derail the ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS thread by posting more AC lyrics after ilxor did, but man:

There’s no one, there’s no one, there's no one
No one
There’s no one, no one, there’s no one
No one,
(Kit, kit kit kit kit kit kit kit ................)
There’s no one, no one, there’s no one, no one,
(Kit, kit kit kit kit kit kit kit ................)
There’s no one, no one, there’s no one to say meow, kitties
Meow (kitties)
Meow (kitties)
Meow (kitties)
Meow

i dont think anyone has ever claimed that their lyrics are any good

kit kit kit kit kit kit kit

i dont think anyone has ever claimed that their lyrics are any good

ILX wanked itself silly over My Girls' lyrics AIRC

ILX wanked itself silly over My Girls' lyrics AIRC

Because they almost make sense for a change?

AC are definitely a "vocals as instrument" band for me - sometimes the words trigger direct associations that enhance the song ("I remember learning how to dive", "open up your throat"), sometimes they're awful (the Avey Tare "sexy" songs), usually they're just sounds with little more symbolism than the yelpy bits that punctuate them. I say this as a massive AC fan btw.

^^

ya I am Animal Collective fan #1 but I think I'd be safe to give an Avey Tare poetry book a miss. I think there's some nice enough stuff on the past three albums (babies pooing aside), but prty sure that Leaf House isn't one they spent hours working through on the page before daring vocalise it.

http://www.atpfestival.com/sized/files/img/events/20110513-animalfix_670x0.jpg

All Tomorrow's Parties curated by Animal Collective
13th-15th May 2011 at Butlins Holiday Centre, Minehead
On Sale Friday 29th October from www.seetickets.com

We are very pleased to invite one of the most exciting indie success stories of the last decade to curate the only ATP festival weekend of May 2011. Animal Collective's last album Merriweather Post Pavilion was hailed with universal acclaim; 5 Stars from Uncut, 8/10 from NME and a 9.6 from Pitchfork, who also named it their album of the year and put it in their top 20 albums of the decade. ATP promoter Barry Hogan: "I always wondered what kind of mixtape Animal Collective would put together, so we are really stoked that they are climbing into the curating hot seat at Butlins next May where they will headline and curate the festival that includes the likes of Lee Scratch Perry and Gang Gang Dance from an already eclectic mix of 40+ acts."

The first announcements chosen by Animal Collective for the line-up are:

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
GANG GANG DANCE
LEE SCRATCH PERRY
ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI
BROADCAST
BLACK DICE
MEAT PUPPETS performing Up On The Sun
THE FROGS performing It's Only Right & Natural
IUD
OMAR-S
PRINCE RAMA
SPECTRUM
DENT MAY
GROUP DOUEH
THE BROTHERS UNCONNECTED
SUBLIME FREQUENCIES DJs + Films
DERADOORIAN
ZOMBY
VLADISLAV DELAY

with far more to be announced!

I like a fair bunch of that, especially The Frogs and Omar-S

man i like a lot of that

was always expecting them as the inevitable curators and they are naturally doing an awesome job

this does look amazing actually.

yeah i mean whether you like AC or not, dudes have great taste

the return of dance music to atp!? O_O

Can I afford to go to ATP and Primavera in the same month, is the question...

vlad!!

animal collective awesome job, great taste

dire lineup except for meat puppets and group doueh

what no Shellac

the other side of takeout is mildew on rice

lee perry will be performing his masterpiece "jamaican ET" in its entirety

OMAR-S performing Fabric 45

would see

BROADCAST
OMAR-S
ZOMBY
VLADISLAV DELAY

everything else is terrible

prolly not the thread to express that viewpoint

ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI
BROADCAST

would be cool to see. i kind of like animal collective, too (or, at least, i bet they'd put on an interesting show). i love lee perry, but in 2010? and prince rama are an intriguing act to me.

you are a total dipshit if you think group doueh is terrible

brothers unconnected certainly worth checking out too

all middle eastern music is horrible, atonal, buzzing noise

also

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/Prince_Rama.jpg

i find two of the three intriguing, the other not so much

girl on left looks pensive.

would have intrigue with all these white girls

no j/k they are sorta doggish

all middle eastern music is horrible, atonal, buzzing noise

― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, October 27, 2010 4:50 PM

western sahara ≠ middle east

http://blog.yellowbirdproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/dent-may.jpg

you laff, but last time anco uncovered some weirdo doofus all of indie rock sounded like him four years later so

If I could afford to go to this, would love to see:
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
GANG GANG DANCE
ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI
BROADCAST
BLACK DICE
MEAT PUPPETS
THE FROGS
PRINCE RAMA
DERADOORIAN
ZOMBY

Although I have to admit I haven't heard any of Deradoorian's solo stuff yet. Mad crush on her though. Someone point me to some Doueh to hear.

xp thats indie rock's problem, not mine

you laff, but last time anco uncovered some weirdo doofus all of indie rock sounded like him four years later so

have no idea who yr referring to tbh

gucci mane?

anyway this lineup looks great, Broadcast are teh best

meh. they couldn't book lil b (the based god)?

Does anyone know whether Doueh and the Bishops are doing other UK shows around this time? I would be surprised if not, but it'd be nice to know as I guess this will sell out pretty quick (they're only doing one ATP in May, right?).

i mean pretty phenomenal bill... but then again they could put motorhead and the ghost of joey ramone on this lineup and it's like i wouldn't want to spend more than 3 minutes with an audience of DIEHARD ANIMAL COLLECTIVE FANS in their stupid masks without wanting to blow my fucking brains out all over the fish n chips stand

lol their fans wear masks?

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HUTeZEpDdWY/SzmIRyDPRhI/AAAAAAAAAB8/3V3X0u6cxeQ/s320/paperbag.jpg

Lol Animal Collective fans wear masks?

http://www.chinashopmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/animal-collective-18-fans1-580x350.jpg

Get yer eyes check bro, that is facepaint.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2656/3843236338_9e5f078c1e.jpg

headz ain't ready

those are TRIBAL MARKS or PAW PRINTS?

wait whiney answer my question. or someone else answer it. I R perplexed

they go to clemson

crowd of people engage in idiotic behavior shockah

like this is why I never go to festivals in general, more than a couple hundred people in one place turns nauseating pretty quickly

all animal collective fans are enrolled at clemson university.

xxpost - ariel pink

ah thx

I have never heard of or paid attention to ariel pink

well I've heard OF them (her? him?) but I've never listened to anything

just so tired of all these animal collectives

what do they sound like? i think i want to hear these bands, like tonight!

Should've been a stipulation that all acts have to have an animal somewhere in the name.

That aside, Deerhunter should really be on that ticket!

like this is why I never go to festivals in general, more than a couple hundred people in one place turns nauseating pretty quickly

lol u went to burning man

which, btw, did not involve 10s of thousands of people when I was going

also a few thousand people spread across a desert is pretty different from thousands of people packed into a festival field, in the good ol' early days of Burning Man at no point would you ever be in a crowd of morons.

also you could still drive around, burn things, carry guns/explosives/fireworks, and there were no cops

oh how things have changed

Wow, being an upwardly-mobile urbanite US music fan must be the absolute worst. I feel so sorry for you people who are forced 24/7 to hang out with mask-wearing fans of an actually-not-as-ubiquitous-as-you-make-out noise-rock band that I may actually start an awareness charity.

Actually no, I think I'll spend my time enjoying music and looking forward to ATP instead, bungholes.

lol i still love this band btw

Can't say I'm too mad for Dent May though. He's like a bad impression of Jonathan Richman playing a uke. Maybe he's more charming live though...?

bd+ac are the best, would see

just so tired of all these animal collectives

― am0n, Wednesday, October 27, 2010 2:44 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

UCB ref???

;]

Maybe i put this somewhere else but my friend made this and I still think it's pretty funny. He was convinced 311 has a big influence on Animal Collective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUsn_YRQaJI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCK03Po10iE&feature=relmfu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rh0xvLxIAI&feature=relmfu

so, new AC. the Panda track is better imo.
Tare repeat the same tricks he pulled in Feels etc...
the production sounds like old AC, which is great.

On first listen it's ok I guess. Doesn't feel like it has anything at all to do with 2012, which is not necessarily a bad thing but in the absence of new tricks I'd like some better tunes.

the Panda track is better imo.

Both songs sound like Avey Tare to me.

yeah both are avey. don't get a feels vibe at all from these.

i really like the percussion. agree the tunes aren't great, but these were far from the best songs on the last tour.

Wow, seems ILM really has moved on from Animal Collective...not even a bit of abuse for old time's sake?

ya these songs haven't struck me very much yet, which as a fanboy is pretty rare for new Animal Collective material. I think maybe I'm not especially digging the sonic palette they're using, it all sounds a bit murky and indistinct without having other qualities to make up for that. But then I've seen them doing their latest set of songs a couple of times and listened to them a couple more and I don't really remember these songs, so whatever I still anticipate the album. V uninternetty response I admit, it's time to proclaim a shark jump.

Doesn't feel like it has anything at all to do with 2012

Not sure what's '2012', but this comment sticks with me.

i'm holding out for the "Untitled" song that pitchfork filmed them performing at p4k fest last year

centipede hz is their Load

I just happened to throw on Feels this morning on my way to work. Still my favorite of album of theirs.

Centipede HZ is their Exile on Main Street. It's its own world... the best thing they've done.

Animal Collective cancels tour for health reasons, fans on Facebook yell at them a lot

Samuel E. Raven By illness you mean cocaine?
about an hour ago via mobile · 9

"health reasons" or "family problems" always raise red flags

One of these dudes has a pretty significant drug problem that is not very secret, but they've just kicked him out of the band before. Makes me wonder what it would take for them to cancel dates?

Avey Tare seems to have a lot of throat issues.

Maybe his vocal chords are fxed up

"health reasons" or "family problems" always raise red flags

I don't think it should be required of anybody, but coming clean is a good look. I did like it when Fiona Apple cancelled a tour because her dog died.

I didnt know deakin had a drug problem before this thread. He was hilarious in concert because he wore the collar of his oxford shirt flipped up and would dance around while playing his guitar, in contrast to the other, more staid band members. My ex gf and i kept saying "deakmeister" "the deak" and "fuckin D" the whole concert. I miss her.

Anyway, everyone here knows i love this band and i wish them all the best.

he has a drug problem? jeez news to me

care to elaborate? this is killing me

seconded. I would like details on deakin too.

In this case though spazmatazz, i think the issue is avey's vocal chords because he has had laryngitis and complications from that over the past 8 months

ah ok. i wouldnt be surprised if the way he sings has damaged his voice already

The details are: Deakin doesn't do drugs. Or maybe he does!

bruno mars got arrested for cocaine possession

that motherfuckin' Deak. just like the Deak to cancel a tour so he can get high. what a Deak.

i love Deakin.

i want Albert to come back and give us the deets on what he said before. or should i say the Deaks

http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc56/tomlostmonkey/smileys/th_cocaine-smiley.gif

blow?? the DEAK??? lol

i mean, like i said before, he was dressed in a risky business sort of way when i saw him in boston, with his collar flipped up. maybe they had to cancel the tour because he took a job at an investment bank.

i hope avey tare's voice recovers. this song was really good live iirc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW6tc_8yT5I

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdht0amhP61rz30lyo1_500.jpg

Classic Deak

Deak's Got a Beak

Saw them live at roskilde. They managed to play ten songs in eighty minutes, lots of droning interludes. Started out with Moonjock and What Would I Want? Sky, which means that the first fifteen minutes was in 7/8. At that point most of the audience had sortof realised they weren't going to get a dance-party. The audience only livened up when they played My Girls and Brother Sport. It got really bad reviews, but I loved it. Sorta.

Jealous you were in denmark. I studied abroad there and it's a great country.

I'm Danish. And yeah, it's quite great, though the summer-weather is rubbish. Roskilde was really fantastic this year, but I've never been to any other big festival, so I can't really compare it.

I had to leave right before roskilde and i was devastated. Do you live in Copenhagen? Thats where I (predictably) was.

Yup. Well, technically Frederiksberg, but it's all Copenhagen to me. Where did you study, and what?

I went to a school called the Danish Institute for Study Abroad for a semester, which is on Vestergade. All my classes were in English and were related to the humanities - philosophy, russian literature, art history and nordic mythology. My best class was on kierkegaard. I should have tried to learn at least a little danish but it didnt seem like there was enough time

Oh right, that sounds logical. I think it's a part of the University of Copenhagen, where I studied humanities as well, but still it's own thing.

wait, deakin said the n-word??

Yeah. And the worst part is, this most recent outburst earned him his own radio show.

Listening to Centipede Hz again. One more track until Amanita. Excited.

merriweather didn't speak much to me when it first came out but it's been a really spectacular part of my summer. what a wonderful hippie album, totally joyous. also is this the best appropriation of all those kompat pop ambient collections ever? i feel like all those sounds are such a part of MPP. i also pulled out person pitch again for the summer and it's really perfect.

centipede isn't speaking to me now, seems denser and inaccessible and without space. i've only given it a few listens though.

i think centipede is more of an avey tare album and merriweather a panda bear one: the former is nervous and jittery and each of the songs seem to want to do a few different things as once. this is what i like about it, but i like merriweather too for the things that it does well.

they must have good blow in cincy

http://static.wixstatic.com/media/627a4b_48c27267f7d98fe3d67fff4d4083dba3.png_srz_661_661_85_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_png_srz

Tweakin

Just to be sure: Dave Portner is Avey Tares real name, and Abigail Portner is his sister, who has made several of their album covers, right? They must be quite ugly shoes, then.

I hung my head in shame at the record store today, as I finally caved and bought the Prospect Hummer thingy with Vashti Bunyan (which is the reason I got it). I was totally amused that the spine credits the band as "AC." Teehee.

i have a feeling they are not long for this world as a group.

Weren't there a bunch of break up rumours like three years ago?

Me too
Xpost

The new avey tare group, the last maficre record (ran out of ideas?!),
The Panda Bear successful solo career. ..

anyone else at the 9:30 show on monday? it was great, first time i've seen them play the Centipede stuff, which really came alive (especially "Father Time," which I didn't think much about beforehand). can't wait to see what they do next, together and individually! what an honor and a privilege to be around to see a legendary band in its prime!

*farts*

'waterface'… they probably had a song called that at some point

http://i.imgur.com/uto3gC3.jpg

God, that's exactly what they say, isn't it?

ah cmon

I will never not be laughing at that one

was that made in microsoft word b/c i'm pretty sure i've seen the text styling on "original" before

quite into the dog's hitler moustache + hulk hogan skullet combo.

Big Dog Collective

i really like this

https://soundcloud.com/anmlcollective/sets/new-psycho-actives-vol-1

Spoke to Deakin and Vashti Bunyna about ten years of Prospect Hummer (IMO their best release to date) http://thequietus.com/articles/17672-vashti-bunyan-animal-collective-conversation-interview

*Bunyan

cool. i love vashti bunyan

she was so nice. a genuinely lovely person.

that's a nice interview, I loved prospect hummer at the time

Were I stuck in said airport I would complain mightily.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/11/animal-collective-are-debuting-their-new-album-at-bwi-airport-right-now/

aw i think it's a cool stunt

BWI actually has Dan Deacon and Future Islands on constant rotation in the bathrooms every day.

well, this is different.

great that they did it on Thanksgiving, talk about max exposure.

meant, Thanksgiving eve.

Poor people. As if wasting time with their families on thanksgiving wasn't bad enough.

Were I stuck in said airport I would complain mightily.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, November 25, 2015 7:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM.

BWI actually has Dan Deacon and Future Islands on constant rotation in the bathrooms every day.

― flappy bird, Wednesday, November 25, 2015 10:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...and I'd complain even more if I went to the toilets to get away from Animal Collective offending my ears and I was confronted with the god-awful sound of Future Islands instead. Although, I guess there's a none more fitting soundtrack for having a shit to.

The version of "what would I want sky" on live at 930 is beautiful

i was pleasantly surprised with Live at 9:30. the mix is phenomenal, i'd never heard their interludes and transitions with such clarity. every time i've seen them after 2006, the live mix has been really muddy. It gave me a new appreciation for a lot of the CHz songs like 'Father Time' and 'Monkey Riches.'

Surprised there's no mention of their upcoming album here - I guess times have changed. Already seems strange that these guys were the definition of the zeitgeist for a brief while. They influenced a lot of copycats, but did any of those copycats have any tunes? Hope the new one backs of a bit from the kitchen-sink mud overload of the last one. I listened to the ILX pre-cover version of Centipede Hz way more than the real thing.

yeah the production/arrangements weren't great on the latest album but there were some good tunes and great bits, here and there.

Seems to me that MPP was their New Jersey. The big hyped album that garnered critical and commercial praise on the back of past successes more than its own merits, and ultimately pointed to the game being up.

I haven't followed the "New Jersey" thread in details but it seems the idea is also that the album in question has to be bad (I'm not necessarily talking about the MJ album !) or not so good.
I know many people and AC fans don't particularly like MPP but for most (including me), it's pretty solid.

Yep I know plenty of people who didn't really get their previous stuff, but thought MPP was that bit more polished and hooky. It's more of a (What's the Story) Morning Glory than a Be Here Now.

I heard the newest single and was just, what is this, this is making my stomach feel queasy

new animal collective there was a little bit of discussion of FloriDada here

it's better than most of the last one but sounds pretty indistinguishable from like... Yeasayer or some other band they've influenced. don't really have much in the way of expectations since there was a big drop-off in quality after MPP, neither CHz or any of the solo albums have been much good.

no way is MPP a New Jersey. If the AC have one song everyone knows, it's "My Girls."

Really psyched for Painting With. All indications point to something more direct and immediate than ChZ, with tons of Sung Tongs-esque vocal interplay.

oh yeah, and for anyone who still cares, Deakin's solo album is finally coming out next month http://pitchfork.com/news/62710-animal-collectives-deakin-finishes-long-delayed-solo-album/

Definitely not a New Jersey. With a New Jersey, the hype is more of the pre-release variety, gained by from a previous release, rather than all of the critical accolades it gains after it comes out. You could maybe make the case for Centipede Hz as being their New Jersey, but I feel like that album didn't have a lot of hype going into it.

it had a fair amount of hype, with the Honeycomb/Gotham single coming out in May, with a four month lead-up to the release of the record. and it had all the pressure of being the followup to Merriweather..."Today's Supernatural" definitely fits the bill as a single that was played a lot at the time and sort of forgotten now

xps I found MPP to be patchy as fuck.

really? what songs didn't do it for you?

I found that starting with Strawberry Jam, AC decided to go further and further down this route of claustrophobic bit-crushed noise that buried everything in this really clumsy, unrefined way. The lyrics became self-parodic and as ufo alludes to upthread, they became another chillwavish band in a sea of other chillwavish bands. Tracks I would save from MPP include Bluish, Lion In a Coma, No More Runnin and Brothersport. The rest I can take or leave.

I think I still love or at least really like almost all the tracks on MPP, even years after binge listening to it.
for me, that album is upthere with the best pop albums ever, no less !

You know what? I really liked the Fall Be Kind EP that came out around that time. That's the last AC release I really loved.

Yes! Esp "What would I want"

yeah - i remember hearing it live before it came out and thinking it was one of the best things i'd heard by them.

stop daydreaming dude

yeah - i remember hearing it live before it came out and thinking it was one of the best things i'd heard by them.

Likewise! I saw them in Dublin in 2009 and they played it and I recorded the second half of it on my phone because it sounded great. When Fall Be Kind came out later that year I recognised it straight away.

Video is out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuoIvNFUY7I

well that's not a bad track at all. i quite like it. Nice and bouncy. The production is a bit more solid than I'd come to expect from them. and I like the Wipeout sample.

What Would I Want? Sky is probably my favorite AC-track as well. I prefer Fall Be Kind to MPP. And like SJ and CHz more as well. I just could never get into MPP. But when I heard them live after CHz, I have to admit My Girls and Brother Sport were awesome.

I agree that the Fall be Kind EP was great and somehow, managed to meet my high expectations following MPP.
It was like having my own psychedelic era Beatles releasing a classic pop album and following it up with a stand-alone single/EP. only it didn't go further...
I think I can is fantastic.

Already seems strange that these guys were the definition of the zeitgeist for a brief while.

yea it seems SUPER fucking weird tbh

crazy that MPP was 7 years ago !
god I'm old...

just as Nirvana inspired millions to play strats & DS-1's, the AC inspired thousands to use SP-303's and 404's

So the cover of fall be kind is so creepy. the shadow of an axe being swung overhead.

my fiance couldn't make it through Floridada haha

i felt like after panda bear released person pitch, they could have gone a number of different ways with mpp. some of the early live versions of mpp were sicker than what ended up on record. i think they've been thinking about music for a live festival crowd since then. which is fine, i think fall be kind could be sort of a blueprint going forward for them, what would i want? in particular seems like it would sound good live in a big setting

dog latin otm mpp sux0r

The FloriDada video is disgusting.

So the cover of fall be kind is so creepy. the shadow of an axe being swung overhead.

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whoa, never noticed that before! nice catch...

word is that Flo Rida is going to be on the FloriDada remix

surprised the PFFR video isn't more offensive. maybe they asked them to tone it down

what else have they done?

woa they did it? i need to check it out.

they did Wonder Showzen and Xavier: Renegade Angel

oh shit i've seen some of that Xavier: Renegade Angel show

yeah it hits the same acid techno mysticism vibe of the ac

So the cover of fall be kind is so creepy. the shadow of an axe being swung overhead.

― calstars, Friday, January 8, 2016 11:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoa, never noticed that before! nice catch...

Me neither but to me it's someone chopping wood (fall and winter be kind !) so not really sinister !

I guess I've seen the shining too many times

i felt like after panda bear released person pitch, they could have gone a number of different ways with mpp.