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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

Saw them tonight on NY Noise. They suck. The whole NY Noise show sucked. The guy from Ariel Pink looks like Andrew I noticed.

― Zepp Floyd, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I've gotta say Feels is growing on me a lot - there aren't many bad tracks on it at all. Still, I'm gonna say Sung Tongs will probably always be my favourite. Something about Feels just makes AC sound all the more like human beings and in a strange way reveals a lot of flaws. With ST, you really were given the impression that the band was made up of mutants from an isolated peninsula on the other side of the world, singing in some kind of pidgen English and playing the kind of music that they'd grown up with all their lives in an outback bush somewhere. Feels is a great alternative American album but doesn't quite capture the otherworldly semi-logic of ST.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 06:20 (eighteen years ago) link

2005: Everyone is Human After All?

― Beta (abeta), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link

whereas i ultimately found ST to be front-loaded (and i concur with dave's assessment that the album was a tad 'goofy') Feels has a real emotional weight to it. and the back-half, while incredibly slooooow, is just stunning.

― Beta (abeta), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Saw them tonight on NY Noise. They suck.

they were fucking terrible the one time I saw them live as well. I just don't think they work live, or whatever it is they do live, I don't like it. the records are great though!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought they were great live -- but it sounds like it varies a lot from tour to tour.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 28 October 2005 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Knitting Factory shows last year were incredible...the Irving Plaza show from January was almost painful...definitely hit or miss

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Friday, 28 October 2005 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link

and re: emotional weight...I don't think they'll top Winter's Love

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Friday, 28 October 2005 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link

I saw the same show as kyle and they were pretty bad, kind of embarassing.

― F.R.I.E.N.D. (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 October 2005 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link

like 5 year olds on sugar!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 October 2005 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link

this does not deplete how good I think Feels is though

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 28 October 2005 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

So I'm finally hearing "Grass" and the first minute was surprisingly powerful and beautiful. Finally, an Animal Collective song I could truly enjoy!

But then they started singing. Oh well.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link

thanks for that, dick.

― tom west (thomp), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I weep bitter tears. Or not.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 00:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Music critics listen to music funny.

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 00:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeh, I wasn't talking about live. I saw their videos and they suck on recording. So I guess that means they suck live and on recording. Yay.

― Zepp Floyd, Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I would like to suck on some recording.

Does anybody have extra?

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 01:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't imagine not liking Feels. To me it sounds like some of the happiest (and most genuinely happy) music ever laid to tape.

― Matt McEver (mattmc387), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 02:50 (eighteen years ago) link

i like their singing, but can understand why it would grate on some people.

― amon (eman), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link

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Animal Collective - Feels