animal collective

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.

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.