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Yeah, I wish this was more difficult too...like it was fuckin' OUT MUSIC, MAAAAN. *blorp*

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 8 February 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I like this because it has a lot more of the Jane sound in it than Young Prayer did.

― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 8 February 2007 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think it's surprising that this is more tame than Sung Tongs/Here Comes The Indian...Panda Bear has always been the melodic base for AC and he's now married with a child in Lisbon (even a song called "take pills" appears to say, "I don't want for us to take pills anymore")...so the wise, peaceful aura is fitting...this is much better than Feels which was initially interesting but eventually felt annoying and contrived (probably due to its lack of lasting melodies - it always felt like more of an Avey Tare effort)...It's not quite as good as Sung Tongs though, which may prove that the collaboration doesn't hurt

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Thursday, 8 February 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I like it at least as much as Sung Tongs, otherwise otm. half feels like a lost masterpiece from a narcotized Russian Futurists and the other half is just a hazy restless womb of perfection. I'd love to hear how a lot of other bands would sound with the prickly pits excised, but that's my 'thing' i guess.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 10 February 2007 06:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Feels which was ~~initially interesting but eventually felt~~ annoying and contrived
Feels which was ~~initially interesting but eventually felt~~ annoying and contrived
Feels which was ~~initially interesting but eventually felt~~ annoying and contrived

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Saturday, 10 February 2007 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link

ok now that's otm, no need for politeness. didn't 'feel' shit amirite?

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 10 February 2007 06:36 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

Reviews Pour In

― M.V., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I think what makes me laugh the most is the first complaint is from Pacific Grove (which everyone knows is inferior to Carmel). As for my reviewing style, nobody is more dissatisfied with it than I am, in that I always think I can do better!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I am still liking this more than anything else from 2007 so far.

― sleeve, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link

damn, 9.4, pitchfork went off.

this will be a good time to watch how much they can influence a record's ubiquity even when it's "out."

(and for the record, i really like this album, although it could have been a perfect EP.)

― poortheatre, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

this is tight yo

― modestmickey, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

It justifies the hype.

It's pretty fuckin' great.

― Sum Fitch, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

i love it.
I don't think it's a 9.4
maybe if he'd kept the "edits" which are much more concise and listenable then the 12 minute album versions , being that they are just one loop over and over again, and had he replaced Search For Delicious with an actual song, maybe a 9 would be appropriate but for all the great moments, there are still some self indulgent snoozes too

― tornup_andhurt, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I like this album a lot, and I hate everything.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 23 March 2007 02:57 (seventeen years ago) link

microhouse artists Basic Channel... pass the sick bucket

― resolved, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Boomkat review kind of confirms my feelings about this...

I’m not trying to say ‘Person Pitch’ is devastatingly original, rather that Panda Bear has done what so many other fail to do; take an encyclopaedic musical knowledge and translate that into genuinely great fresh compositions. This sentiment is even echoed right down to the album’s packaging which instead of giving you the usual bland liner notes/lyrics/praise be to the creator crap shows you a giant list of influences ranging from minimal techno to dub, to hip hop, to kraut-rock and beyond and you know, if you listen carefully you can hear it all. The first thing that comes up when people begin chattering about Lennox’s productions is Brian Wilson, and that’s an apt comparison at surface level, but listen a little closer and you’ll hear Kraftwerk, Autechre, John Lennon, Lee Perry, Stockhausen, Timbaland, Konono No.1, Arvo Part and so much more.

it's actually really pretty nice as well, but I can't shake the notion that in the end, it's little more than the musical equivalent of a magic-eye picture :/

I get the impression they're (this and AC) heaps of fun to write about, and that they're good at firing peoples own imaginations, but I'm sort of sceptical about how much weight any of it carries musically. I do really like it all as an art project though... maybe I'll find my way in to it on a bit deeper level eventually.

― fandango, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link

"like it as an art project, but it's underwhelming as music" could be my motto though frankly, considering how much ILM (and IRL) endorsed stuff provokes that sort of mild disinclination and not-quite-enthusiasm feeling in me this decade...

― fandango, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link

through "bros," this album is awes - thats as far as i am

― 69, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

This has grown on me (not to a 9.4 though!) I think you have to be a really inured indie person for the "dance" & repetitious stuff in here to actually feel in any way relevant though :/ that angle on it really doesn't grab my ear as much as I'd like...

"musical equivalent of a magic-eye picture" ok, I think what I'm trying to say is this record would appeal to just about anyone, but in a weird way that let's everybody take an entirely different impression home of what it's got going on. It's kind of an interesting trick. Also, it is really, really pleasant and nice for sure... I sort of find that's as far as it goes w/r/t my emotional response though. I wish it got under my skin a little more, I mean, yeah it's sunshiney but it's no "Aerial" is it?

― fandango, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

does anyone fancy transcribing the liner notes? i'd love to read the list of influences.

― rio natsume, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

how can you people complain these songs are too long. get with the fuckin program fellas.

― artdamages, Monday, 26 March 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

wait, there is gonna be an animal collective box set? thats a must have.

― artdamages, Monday, 26 March 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

wait, there is gonna be an animal collective box set? i need that. i think box sets are going to be the only cds i buy anymore.

― artdamages, Monday, 26 March 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

It's good but I need a few more listens. I love "Ponytail" instantly btw.

― zeus, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

does anyone fancy transcribing the liner notes? i'd love to read the list of influences.

you really could just buy a copy y'know

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=56837#unread

― Milton Parker, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link

not to be a hypocrite -- I've downloaded tons, even if it hasn't impacted my spending -- but sometimes it seems like liner notes are the one remaining perk left of throwing your money down

― Milton Parker, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

"omg Ned, u r such a namedropper"

not as Panda Bear himself: whats the deal with this list?
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/iyiiki/panda_bears_person_pitch_list/

― Zeno, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

it's a good list

apologies to rio m for my shitfit yesterday, that other ILM thread had really gotten me down

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha! I heard some Police in the vocals, and now I see that list.

― zeus, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

hey no worries man, i kinda forgot that you can still buy cds tbh. yr shitfit inspired me to buy it anyway. i guess the list is kinda like a less obscure nurse list for 07 or something

― rio natsume, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

sample source list?

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

wow, this record is a treat.

maybe it helps though that i don't listen to music like this very much (techno having consumed my life ala trees)

― jergïns, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

ha ha I came to post the same thing exactly as jergins.

but it really is a thing of wondrous beauty.

― Tim F, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I got over this pretty fast to be honest :-/

I found the melodies & harmonies very addictive, but otherwise it's sort of unengaging. The songs don't add up to a great deal, though they are very nice. The loops and sonic backing kind of bug me. First few plays I thought it was really inventive but after not too long before it just sounded like one long ever-rolling tickertape of bitty-ness.

A lot of reviews have been making comparisons to dance music in the way it's created.. but frankly, I don't hear much that's on the same level of interest (to me) or commitment here.

It's ok though, definitely better than a lot of other things!

― fandango, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

i hate to make a typical cynical anti-pitchfork comment but i feel like hardly anyone would care about this album without that glowing pitchfork review. i had just looked at it the day before the review on amazon and it was something like #930 in overall sales, and the day of the pitchfork review it shot up to around #250.

― Reatards Unite, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

"Bros" is fantastic. The rest is only ok for me. It's certainly not terrible, but like a lot of the animal collective stuff just strikes me as ok.

Also, I get so confused everytime I click on this thread and see that picture in the first post. What the hell is that? What is happening there? Jesus it's distracting.

― mcddcm, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

It an okay CD. After the first couple of cuts it falls off a bit. I was going to post something silly about ghosts of Beach Boys past but then thought better of it. I didn't want to come off like Simon Reynolds and the Junior Hauntology crew. Mostly it just makes me want to play Pet Sounds.

― leavethecapital, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

"hardly anyone would care about this album without that glowing pitchfork review"

yeah animal collective barely has any fans. good thing pitchfork is around to boost PB into the top 300 of web sales.

― dmr, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Agree with the disagree about interest in this being some kind of Pitchfork artifact. Pitchfork may focus attention, boost sales for a week, but writing all interest in this record off to PF's supposedly massive commercial influence is just lazy. Buzz was there before the review appeared. Songs seem to be selling folks on their own.

― Pye Poudre, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Compare dates of early comments on this thread with date Pitchfork review appeared.

― M.V., Wednesday, 4 April 2007 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

ilx certainly hasn't had animal collective threads for almost five years now

― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link

The only Pitchfork reviews which get charged with influencing ILM are reviews written by ILXors anyway (not mine - Mark's, Jess's, Dominique's, Philip's etc.)

― Tim F, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm surprised nobody has drawn the obvious di comparisons yet

― rio natsume, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

DI?
http://www.midi-classics.com/i/p30660.jpg

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

DI?
http://myspace-374.vo.llnwd.net/00806/47/38/806988374_thumb1.jpg

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

i mean much of it sounds alot like "a night on the tiles" (is that the one i mean? the swing jazz loop one (art of actual forgetfulness)) but with beach boys vocals, and the whole samples as narrative vehicle thing that ian crause used to talk about is kind of implicit (though i haven't listened/cranked it hard enough yet to notice). xp.

― rio natsume, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

nice

― blueski, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm surprised nobody has drawn the obvious di comparisons yet

I've been thinking more that this was the type of album that an indie type would create because the Avalanches hadn't released a second album.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

the beach boys vibe/aura puts me in mind of wild honey or friends more than the stone cold Brian classics like Pet Sounds; for me, it's the first BB-flavoured modern alb that comes anywhere near to matching the vocals/songwriting/vibe of the post-Smile recs, and the mantras and repetitions and samples evoke devotional sunshine bliss w/out being explicitly 'religious' - v clever and beautiful

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 5 April 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

The cover. Really. My fave album cover of 2007.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Thursday, 12 April 2007 10:15 (seventeen years ago) link

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"Livin' in the After" is so great, can't believe it's under 3 minutes. should be the longest track on the album

― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 02:46 (ten months ago) link

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