ILX pre-covers Animal Collective's "Centipede Hz"
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 May 2012 14:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
the actual tracklist just hit the web:
01 akikan02 sleeping with hinako03 lucky star04 midori days05 samurai pizza cats06 qwaser of stigmata07 unko-san08 kiss x sis09 puni puni poemy10 excel saga11 ebichu the housekeeping hamster
― scott seward, Monday, 14 May 2012 15:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
more like centipede hzzzzzzzzzz ....
― tylerw, Monday, 14 May 2012 15:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
i pede, it hz
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Monday, 14 May 2012 15:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
centipede humanz
― emil.y, Monday, 14 May 2012 15:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Bee OK, Thursday, 21 June 2012 03:28 (11 months ago) Permalink
That's fucking horrible.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 21 June 2012 06:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
Just like everything else about them.
HIYOOOOOOO!!!!
― Austin, Thursday, 21 June 2012 06:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
please centipede, dont hz 'em
― Mark E. Match-up (haitch), Thursday, 21 June 2012 07:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
bet it sounds like dario g with crap singing
or
the beach boys
― Morrissey & Clunes: The Severed Alliance (PaulTMA), Thursday, 21 June 2012 16:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
that really is phenomenally ugly
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 June 2012 20:25 (11 months ago) Permalink
i dig.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 30 July 2012 03:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
mm doesn't seem to be working
http://www.youtube.com/embed/f6cWumQwCqA
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 30 July 2012 03:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
sounds good to me
― phantompenguin, Monday, 30 July 2012 03:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
sounds to me
― am0n, Monday, 30 July 2012 03:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
Today's Supernatural is great. I hope the rest of the album has this sort of energy. They sort of lost it in between Sung Tongs and Feels.
― Moka, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 05:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
He sounds a little like Zinc Alloy era Bolan in parts. I love it!
― wk, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 06:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
sounds good, BUT for a band that more or less reinvent themselves each record - it sounds very familiar. somewhere between Feels and Spirit Theyve Gone
― nostormo, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 16:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
after being struck by it on my first few listens i'm not so sure now, as a song i like what it's doing but i don't know that the sonic palette they're using is really working for me. a bit of an ugly mush, which is something they've made work before but here the mush doesn't really seem to be attaining any consistency. maybe an album's worth of said ugly mush will indoctrinate me.
― (500) Days of Sodom (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 17:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
as a pre-album sigle - it's probably their worst since 2004
― nostormo, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 17:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
The 'ugly mush' factor is what's been the problem for their last two albums, but strangely not things like the Fall Be Kind EP which is pretty good, and the last Panda Bear which was acers.
― Quickly, take hold of my hand, asshole! (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 18:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
Really like Today's Superman on first listen though - not actually too mushy sounding, and I like the fact they seem to be revisiting earlier styles (I hear elements of Sung Tongs in the drumming and also long-ago co-conspirators Black Dice's 'Repo' album in there). Sounds like they're having fun again after having nearly lost themselves in granular fuzz on MPP
― Quickly, take hold of my hand, asshole! (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 18:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
I did not like that
― dmr, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 19:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
I'm a fan of almost everything they've done up to this point but I dunno, something is off there
i don't know that the sonic palette they're using is really working for me. a bit of an ugly mush
seems otm. maybe it will grow on me, I hated Strawberry Jam at first but kinda came around.
― dmr, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 19:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
those heavy guitar crashes on the stop-start part, ugh
― dmr, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 19:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
cmon let let let let let let let go
bionic hee haw
I seriously can't have enough of this song. Catchiest song I've heard from them since Purple Bottle.
― Moka, Monday, 6 August 2012 03:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
album's gonna be streaming on http://radio.myanimalhome.net/ soon. (currently we have a mix by geologist.)
― 4'33" (dubstep remix) (Merdeyeux), Monday, 20 August 2012 01:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
(apryl fool playing at the moment, word.)
― 4'33" (dubstep remix) (Merdeyeux), Monday, 20 August 2012 02:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
just tuned in.. how much did i miss?
― diamonddave85, Monday, 20 August 2012 02:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
this is the fourth song now.
― 4'33" (dubstep remix) (Merdeyeux), Monday, 20 August 2012 02:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
who's singing this song... deakin?
― diamonddave85, Monday, 20 August 2012 02:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
this deakin song is nice (xp!). hoping that lo-ish-fi stream is a particularly bad format for this album, tho, cuz i'm continuing to dig the songs qua songs but finding it all a bit muddily busy.
― 4'33" (dubstep remix) (Merdeyeux), Monday, 20 August 2012 02:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
ya that was good. tho i am a major stan, i admit. the sonics became more appealing, though i'll wait until i have the proper version before listening again.
― 4'33" (dubstep remix) (Merdeyeux), Monday, 20 August 2012 03:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
the website now has all the tracks available to stream, btw.
― 4'33" (dubstep remix) (Merdeyeux), Monday, 20 August 2012 03:09 (9 months ago) Permalink
where do you see that/how can i get to it? i've been failing at this thing all evening.
― john maus: a survivor's tale (kiss out the jams), Monday, 20 August 2012 03:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
nm found it
― john maus: a survivor's tale (kiss out the jams), Monday, 20 August 2012 03:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
Can't get past the "ugly mush" production. Sounds terrible.
― Benjamin-, Monday, 20 August 2012 03:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
Not enough Noah.
― America's Mobile, Monday, 20 August 2012 18:15 (9 months ago) Permalink
the deakin track is the only one that grabs me so far
― diamonddave85, Monday, 20 August 2012 18:26 (9 months ago) Permalink
i'm listening to a vbr copy and it's much clearer than the stuff i heard on the stream, or at least it sounds good on my speakers, which are middling. lots of good stuff on here. more like strawberry jam on the sound end, but the songwriting and melodies (even if they are a bit buried,) are as strong as the more recent stuff. the "new town burnout"/"monkey riches"/"mercury man" run is my favorite bit. some of the best music of their career. definitely an avey-heavy record, but when was the last time one wasn't really?
the deakin one's alright, but his voice just sounds kind of ill-formed (or at least not distinctive enough) compared to either of the other guys'.
have to say i'm taking to this album as a whole a lot more quickly than i have any other animal collective. sometimes it takes me a while to figure out their stuff, if i ever do, but nearly every song on this thing has something for me to latch onto. it's not the drastic leap away that merriweather was, but it applies the good things learned on that album to their older, more dynamic sound.
― zingzing, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 06:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
kinda disappointing (for the first listen at least)
― nostormo, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 19:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
Right now I'm totally stuck on "Applesauce," at the risk of burning myself put on it. But the rear of the album's gnarly too. Not sure whether this has more staying power than MPP yet (I hope it does)
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 21:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
Rest not rear, yikes
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 21:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
Wire review reckons the opening 4 tracks are potentially the greatest front-run on an album EVA btw
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 23:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
The density of earlier records w/ the instinctual "first thought / best thought" approach replaced by precision. This record is an amateur musicologists dream.
― Oblique Strategies, Thursday, 23 August 2012 21:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
this is really terrible sounding to my ears and also makes my stomach feel ill
― Mordy, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 22:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
Staying power is not one of AC's strong points.
― chromecassettes, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 22:58 (8 months ago) Permalink
Like a burrito on the windsheild, so beautiful
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 23:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
most of the tracks on here sound like a band trying to play multiple songs at once
the burrito soundbite was inspired
― monotony, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 00:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
MPP is stronger, more accessible, tuneful than their earlier albums imo. Except for 'Fireworks' and 'Rev Green'.
― pandemic, Friday, 7 September 2012 14:50 (8 months ago) Permalink
almost everything that ever got called 'twee' was being called that unhelpfully and inaccurately tbh, except maybe 'a midsummer night's happening' by the sallyangie
― thomp, Friday, 7 September 2012 14:55 (8 months ago) Permalink
that record's pretty fucking twee
also if i were to make a list of 'reasons why i might listen to animal collective', their ability to write melodies is not going to be high on that list, it's going to be nesting in place 109 or so between 'always liked bands who have a flashlight on stage with them' 'deakin seems like the kind of guy who'd make surprisingly tasty oatmeal'
― thomp, Friday, 7 September 2012 14:57 (8 months ago) Permalink
agree^
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Friday, 7 September 2012 15:20 (8 months ago) Permalink
let, let, let, let, let goerotic seesaw(...)let, let, let, let, let's gobionic keytar
― thomp, Friday, September 7, 2012 7:35 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i hear erratic seasaw and bionic hee haw, which are just funny
― mizzell, Friday, 7 September 2012 15:23 (8 months ago) Permalink
Kinda cool that noted ilm poster Bee OK got their user name on this album at the end of the Deakin song.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 7 September 2012 15:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
The two singles (Summertime Clothes and My Girls) do nothing to protect them from accusations of tweeness and verge on self parody.
In what way? Taking pride in being a traditional provider for your wife and kids doesn't strike me as a twee sentiment.
Animal Collective fans moaning about MPP as if its some kind of awful commercial sell-out or hideous tuneless dirge compared to all their other albums amuse me no end.
It's the lack of perspective that (sometimes) comes with fandom - the way some Nirvana fans talk about Nevermind as if it had children's choirs, gated reverb on the drums, and Perry Como spoken word sections.
Love curly brackets.
C++
― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Friday, 7 September 2012 16:23 (8 months ago) Permalink
MPP doesn't really seem all that different from "Strawberry Jam" to me, at least sound-wise. As far as a sell-out i haven't read anything about that but then i don't go on AC message boards. I'm sure it's full of "Oh the early stuff was WAYYY better", but what band doesn't have those fans?
As for twee-ness, I think it's mainly in the singing: the higher pitch, the shakiness. Sometimes the singing sounds like a little kid who isn't getting their way or is otherwise upset, super emotional, super manic with the cadences, etc. Like the first day of school you get in a fight with your friend and are crying to your mom about it, that's what some of AC vocals sound like, to me. Not completely, but if someone to accuse them of being twee, this is what i would think most of that criticism is directed towards.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 7 September 2012 17:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
For me the biggest problem of this record after the poor song writing is the production and incessant desire to constantly throw noises into songs. that DOTH NOT make a song 'interesting', in this case it's really actually a very painful listen, especially with the way it was mixed and mastered. It's got no dynamics and it just one long barrage of semi painful noise. Hi I'm new and I guess a grandma.
― marginal victory, Friday, 7 September 2012 17:39 (8 months ago) Permalink
Hi I'm new and I guess a grandma.
new board descrip
― flopson, Friday, 7 September 2012 17:41 (8 months ago) Permalink
idk when i listen to this band they've been throwing noises into songs basically forever and it's really annoying but at least on this record it seems like "the point"
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 September 2012 17:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
so far the noises thrown on top of Rosie Oh are kind of ruining it for me, but it's the type of thing I need to hear a bunch before I decide
― mizzell, Friday, 7 September 2012 18:53 (8 months ago) Permalink
the way some Nirvana fans talk about Nevermind as if it had children's choirs, gated reverb on the drums, and Perry Como spoken word sections.
ahah. I would love to hear that ! Nevermind... Naked !
― AlXTC from Paris, Saturday, 8 September 2012 07:35 (8 months ago) Permalink
also, someone tell me what the first few words to the single are, because i keep hearing it as
lyric sheet says 'erratic see saw' and 'bionic hee haw'. obv.
the spin centipedia thing is great, i guess the massive overlap with stuff i like goes some way to explaining my anco fanboydom.
― tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 8 September 2012 13:43 (8 months ago) Permalink
haha same here
― wk, Saturday, 8 September 2012 16:35 (8 months ago) Permalink
same
― centibutt hz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 8 September 2012 16:40 (8 months ago) Permalink
This might be the best AC since Feels.
― Moka, Sunday, 9 September 2012 02:17 (8 months ago) Permalink
the four opening songs at least are. Nothing like the one-two punch of did you see the words and grass, tho.
― Moka, Sunday, 9 September 2012 02:18 (8 months ago) Permalink
so basically anyone who at least likes this album can neck themselves
i'm being quite reasonable in my opinion this time around btw
― Architecture & Immorality: The Mr Kelly Story (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 9 September 2012 10:58 (8 months ago) Permalink
I loved MPP and doubt I will love this one as much. At first, found it pretty meh but it's growing on me with every listen so I might end up liking it. "Amanita" is pretty good (which is fun since it's the track I covered for the ILX comp !).
― AlXTC from Paris, Sunday, 9 September 2012 19:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
the first 2 songs are pretty dope. "amanita" rules. theres good stuff to be found.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 9 September 2012 19:39 (8 months ago) Permalink
I'm liking it, not sure I fully grasp people's expectations with this record. Animal Collective (still) release experimental music, some of it works, some it doesn't. In general, most of their records are consistently interesting...
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 9 September 2012 20:10 (8 months ago) Permalink
So it's growing fast : now I begin to really like almost all the songs !Actually, I begin to really like some parts in all the songs.very interesting and catchy bits here and there."Amanita" is definitely great. the final is so fun.Over the album, it seems there are less vocal harmonies/interactions between Avey Tare and Panda Bear than on MPP. Not too sure about that impression and will have to listen to the whole thing attentively though.
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 10 September 2012 14:41 (8 months ago) Permalink
yeah, it's def one or the other this time around. the guys complement one another so well it's sort of a shame, and i really can't figure why they figured it wouldn't be part of this latest release - almost thinking panda bear's last solo release really distinguished himself to point that the other band members thought they'd either botch any song PB was in, didn't want to compete, or just rather liked his own single voice presiding above all. for an album that's so rife with shit poking you in the head and subtly interrupting every second before it, maybe they wanted just one vocal to make for at least a sense of clarity and relief from the mush?
― kelpolaris, Monday, 10 September 2012 17:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
Avey and Panda should ditch the other two and make another Sung Tongs. I've also noticed their voices rarely interact together this time which is one of the few complaints I have about it right now. Kelpolaris does have a point tho, maybe having vocal harmonies on top of this heavily saturated soundscapes was a little too much.
― Moka, Monday, 10 September 2012 17:55 (8 months ago) Permalink
I'd love to hear a new take on the stripped back sung tongs sound - since then they just seem to be adding more and more layers of mess
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 00:54 (8 months ago) Permalink
funny you mention thathttp://pitchfork.com/news/47800-listen-acoustic-versions-of-animal-collectives-wide-eyed-and-pulleys/
― mizzell, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 00:55 (8 months ago) Permalink
lol i hadn't listened to it. they're acoustic but still with annoying noises thrown on top
― mizzell, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 01:37 (8 months ago) Permalink
‘Centipede Hz’ is growing on me big time. I was underwhelmed (or rather; sonically overwhelmed) by it on first listed but I found myself going back to ‘Today’s Supernatural’ again and again in time it’s almost helped me find an accessible porthole into the album as a whole.
It still sounds unnecessarily cluttered at points but with each listen I’m finding it easier to see through the haze to the melodies at the core of each track. I’m not particularly fond of the wet and watery sounding effects applied to a lot of the vocals, it’s a dangerous move when than sound has become synonymous for so many as a hallmark of poorly encoded MP3’s.
It’ll take time to love ‘Centipede Hz’ as a whole I think but I can see it coming, and not though dogged determination to want to like it either. Despite adoring everything the band has done since ‘Sung Tongs’ I’m not closed to the idea of them making an average album. I came to this one on the back of being soured by their wholly alienating live set at Primavera in 2011 as well so I don’t feel personally like I was wanting to like ‘Centipede Hz’ in any kind of fanboy way.
Lyrically the album is very strong. I was thinking that from what I can make out so far myself but this article helped me along the way and is worth a read. http://www.prefixmag.com/features/animal-collective/the-10-best-lyrics-on-animal-collectives-centipede/68500/
Clearly ‘Centipede Hz’ is destined to disappoint a lot of people who came to the band via MPP and while I can understand their frustrations somewhat I think that in the end it was MPP that was uncharacteristic of Animal Collective as opposed to ‘Centipede Hz’ being so.
― InternetAlan, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 08:29 (8 months ago) Permalink
I saw them live back in March and these songs sounded just as strong as the stuff from Merriweather and Feels. I didn't understand the lukewarm reception this album received at first.... has it begun to be reevaluated yet? I think this album sounds so texturally rich... it cranks and churns like an organic machine... idk, it seems like a really highly developed form of what has always been an interest for them: injecting an earnest, often uncomfortable, pre-sexual kind of sensuality into electronic music.
― severely depressed robots are "twee" (Pat Finn), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 22:37 (1 month ago) Permalink
I really love this album and pretty much loved it at first blush, I think its very accomplished. I doubt it would turn anyone who was skeptical but if you're already a fan this is surely one of their strongest records.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 23:48 (1 month ago) Permalink
MPP = Rumours
Centipede Hz =/= Tusk
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:59 (3 days ago) Permalink
listened to this again today. idgaf what anyone says, i think it's a really enjoyable listen.
― Spectrum, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 17:16 (3 days ago) Permalink
It obviously rules, it was just releases during a low point in their hype cycle so people had to pretend to dislike it.
― Michigan seems like a dream to me now (Treeship), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 17:32 (3 days ago) Permalink
no, a lot of genuine fans were disappointed by this record, nothing to do with hype cycle. probably would've been cool to start hating by strawberry jam anyway
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 18:31 (3 days ago) Permalink
I <3 centipede hz a great deal. The criticisms mostly didnt make sense to me bc i still think its at least as "immediately enjoyable" as MPP and has more replay value. I understand ppl have different experiences though... for me this is an important album.
― Michigan seems like a dream to me now (Treeship), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 18:40 (3 days ago) Permalink
i was mad hyped for it and even though i had misgivings on my first listen i thought i'd get over them with repeated listens, but nop, they came to dominate my feelings about it. but that's fine, it happens, i'll eagerly anticipate their next album anyway.
― ohmigud (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 18:43 (3 days ago) Permalink
Their live show with this album is good... They incorporate video montage in a way that makes sense for the vibe if the album.
― Michigan seems like a dream to me now (Treeship), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 18:46 (3 days ago) Permalink