animal collective

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
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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.

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OTM.

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

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...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.