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This has really, really grown on me. Great stuff.. the Mercury Rev comparison is OTM. "Bees" is stunning. On the fisrt few listens it really just sounded like a jumbled mess to me, but it's really revealed itself.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link

fuckin shit

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 28 August 2005 00:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Holy mo fo. What the uck. This dl is the bomb. Where have you been all my life?!? Wondering how this will blow up. Blow up our pathetic universe AC! you are album of the year without a doubt.

― gerard cosl, Thursday, 1 September 2005 04:47 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm still unsure. I quite like Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev but I'm not entirely I want Animal Collective to sound like them... There are a lot of great tracks on here but a lot of them are buried under, well... just a kind of hubbub of sound and this makes all the tracks very uniform in texture. This might be the point of the whole thing but frankly I still prefer the hippie chant stuff on Sung Tongs. That said, eventhat album took ages (like nearly a year) to sink in properly and now it's one of my favourite records of the decade.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

sung tongs is better, no doubt (I also prefer Campfire Songs and Panda Bear's album)...for whatever reason, this seems to be the album where people finally "get" them, it's more "fun" maybe, or just less meandering....but the blissfull high points of sung tongs far outweigh the playfullness of Feels, IMO

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I've completely changed my mind about this album. I love all of it -especially the first few songs. I love "Grass", "The Purple Bottle", "Banshee Beat", and "Loch Raven" the most. The only song that kind of bores me is "Daffy Duck".

This album just took awhile to sink in. Now I can't stop listening to it.

― recovering optimist (Royal Bed Bouncer), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link

not even banshee beat, cozen?

― jermaine (jnoble), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I think it has some of the best pop stuff they've ever done. Addictive beats as well.

― j. rosenberg (pukeandburn), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I was drunk when I wrote that, jermaine : /

listening to banshee beat now I quite like it

I prefer AC when they're a bit more solid and noisy

when they go sleepy and drifty I go sleepy and drifty

actually this banshee beat is pretty good!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I still prefer the hippie chant stuff on Sung Tongs.

i don't hear that record as anything close to hippie chants. are you sure you don't mean one of their earlier ones?

― amon (eman), Thursday, 1 September 2005 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Sung Tongs is full of kind of chanting and bongos and acoustic guitar.

Anyone else think Feels sounds like an alternate soundtrack to The Lion King?

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

A lot of it gives me a weird kind of summer camp jamboree vibe. Especially "The Purple Bottle". I find it to be a really sunny album for the most part. I found some of their older stuff to be a bit eerie, and I think that missing element was why I didn't like "Feels" at first.

And I have to wonder if the Lion King parallel has more to do with similarities between some of their non-lyrical vocals to "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". I think the "Prospect Hummer" EP reminds me more of that, though.

― recovering optimist (Royal Bed Bouncer), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

There is definitely a very sunny, jaunty quality to this album. It's like little kids playing at guerilla survivalism on the sunniest, breeziest day of the year.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm still getting over how good the song Prospect Hummer is to properly get into the meat of this album yet I think. Probably my song of the year.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm a rabid fanboy, and this is easily their best (even if "Spirit ..." is my favourite, but I have feeling that it could change soon ... )

― Keyin, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 06:38 (eighteen years ago) link

The B-side Fickle Cycle from the Grass EP is pretty damn good too. another of the hippy-chant vibe songs.

― pinder (pinder), Monday, 12 September 2005 05:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Is the Grass ep out? Shit, I want to hear the hippy-chant tune. Is it like "Baby Day"? I loved that one.

― Who Are You, Buster Gonad? (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 12 September 2005 06:42 (eighteen years ago) link

somewhat ... faster beat, less beach boy vocal influence

― President Busch (dr g), Monday, 12 September 2005 07:06 (eighteen years ago) link

ohh fuck it

shhhh

― President Busch (dr g), Monday, 12 September 2005 07:08 (eighteen years ago) link

(thanksss)

― willem (willem), Monday, 12 September 2005 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link

i recognize 'loch raven' from one of their live sets. the second half of "the purple bottle" is really nice.

― amon (eman), Monday, 12 September 2005 11:33 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

new video for grass here: http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/mediaItem.php?id=31

― mitch dub (ano ano), Monday, 26 September 2005 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link

last night me & nicole were listening to tyrannosaurus rex's unicorn and she said to me, "Why would anyone listen to Animal Collective when they could listen to this?"

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 26 September 2005 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

electronics!

― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 26 September 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

disappointed that its not "appalachian people" that hes saying...

http://www.rerz.net/ac/messages/viewtopic.php?t=246

― noizem duke (noize duke), Monday, 26 September 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

omg tripster ennui shockah

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 26 September 2005 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link

two listens in and i'm not totally feeling it (no pun intended, i swear!) but something tells me everything will click at the 30th listen or so. dunno why i think this

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 26 September 2005 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Albums of my year:
Animal Collective Feels
Deerhoof The Runners Four.
I think we can place both into the album hall of fame. They both work on so many levels, and, more importantly, I can't stop singing and dancing and hitting the repeat button.

― marybeth, Saturday, 1 October 2005 02:25 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

It's out in the UK tomorrow! Wow it seems like I've been listening to it for ages now.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 16 October 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

It's out in the US tomorrow too... and Insound hasn't sent my copy yet. :(

― Mickey (modestmickey), Sunday, 16 October 2005 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link

I wonder if I'm the only one who plans on buying it who hasn't actually heard it yet

― Mickey (modestmickey), Sunday, 16 October 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I haven't heard it either, and I'll buy it tomorrow if I can find a couple of old CDs to sell. so many albums, so little money...

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Sunday, 16 October 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm def going to buy it when I get paid next month. Bah, why do BOC and AC have to release albums on the same day half way through the month?

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 16 October 2005 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

become a waiter. you get money every night! and every once in a while you actually save a few bucks inside of blowing it all at a bar!

― Mickey (modestmickey), Monday, 17 October 2005 03:13 (eighteen years ago) link

what instrument's being played at the start of "bees"? is it a harp?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link

This album is a wank.

― feminazi (feminazi), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link

what instrument's being played at the start of "bees"? is it a harp?
-- Raymond Cummings (gracefulas...), October 25th, 2005.

An autoharp I think.

― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link

it's a good record. almost surprisingly so.

― knife (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link

haha I hadn't read this thread before writing a review of the album, but the very first post basically says what I said, except Pinder said it better and in way fewer words.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Feels >>>> Sung Tongs

However, I'm still waiting for an AC album with eight two-minute pop songs and two twelve-minute jam/drone pieces. Almost every track on the album seems to average the two extremes beautifully.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link

I like it, I think. It's odd how it's simultaneously moving towards a more "normal" direction and a weirder direction, but not on the same songs: the first two songs and the last song sound like AC playing indie pop songs, but the chunk in the middle sound like a spacier, less structured AC, more like Here Comes the Indian.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link

n/a is right, but sung tongs is WAY better because it all sounds exactly the same. for both recent albums, the first two songs are the poppiest, most accessible songs on the album, but ST just sounds so much more focused to me. i still just cant get a handle on feels yet. that said, "bees" is totally unfuckwithable (and incidentally sounds more like ST than most of feels).

― petesmith (plsmith), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link

sounds more like ST than most of feels

Which is why it bores me, I guess...

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link

ST is riiiich and deeeeeep though - dont you people care about riiiiichness or deeeeeeeepth???

― petesmith (plsmith), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link

i love feels without reservation. "banshee beat," people!

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link

(x-post)

ST is also sunshine and summer, where this record feels cloudy and autumn. The more I listen to Feels, the more disappointed I am. It almost doesn't sound like the same people, despite the fact that all the voices and bizarre, muddied noises are clearly from the same people. I can't for the life of me imagine preferring "Did You See the Words" to "Leaf House". "Leaf House" is like a deep smile put to music. It's inspiring. Feels just makes me regret things.

and besides, Feels sounds like a real backtrack as far as production goes, everything is less clear, less...explosive!

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link

ST feels more autumnal to me, I think it's all the acoustic guitar. Feels is more wintery.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link

getting colder tho

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link

"Grass" is very spring-y. It's even called "Grass."

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Never much cared for AC. Heard Sung Tongs a couple of times and couldn't get into it. Bought Feels on a whim and have been very pleased after just a few listens.

― Dan Floss (Dan Floss), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 02:45 (eighteen years ago) link

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