Someone talked to PB after the show and he said they're considering touring Sung Tongs (!)
Avey Tare's solo record this year + the Meeting of the Waters EP were acoustic based, he definitely seems headed in that direction, and even though PB's new EP is supposed to sound like deep house/techno, his willingness to play this Sung Tongs set and potentially tour it are encouraging re: the next AC record. really hope it happens too - they've been stuck in sampler land for too long (although I loved the Painting With album and the shows for it even more).
― flappy bird, Monday, 4 December 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
Wow! Haven’t gone through the whole thing but what a great concert and crowd! Didn’t realize how sing-along the album actually is but when you have a full crowd doing the vocal oooohs and aaahs and whathaveyou it sounds gorgeous and seems like real fun to sing along to. I’m jealous.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
even though it was ostensibly a birthday party for p4k (was smoking outside early in the night and someone asked me if i worked for p4k or was here for 'that animal band'), the crowd was easily 90% hardcore AC fans. like, you can hear the crowd freak out when Avey starts singing "Covered in Frogs," an obscure never-recorded Sung Tongs era castoff (and my favorite song of that era). and then losing it again at the end when they started "Prospect Hummer," everyone singing "whoaaa whoaaa whoaa whoaa whoaaaas." A thousand people singing every word of the record, and then falling into solemn silence during "The Softest Voice" and "Visiting Friends," the latter of which was just out of this world- I closed my eyes for most of it but I looked around at one point and saw many people openly weeping. a guy proposed to his girlfriend during "Winters Love." you get that many people in the room so excited & completely in tune with the artist, it was truly magical.
here's an unlisted rip of the multi-camera p4k stream- do yourself a favor and watch "Visiting Friends"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeU-ZBGLVyY
― flappy bird, Monday, 4 December 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
ha, Moka you should check out "Mouth Wooed Her" from the p4k stream- you can see people doing the staggered claps in the second half of the song. like, not only were people singing every word, they were mimicking the sound effects and overdubs on the record
― flappy bird, Monday, 4 December 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
Ah We Tigers sounds so fun! They should do that one in every live performance. If the crowd follows it’s crazy stupid fun. Makes me want to see a performance with one of those student choirs that are all over youtube..z like this Crystal Castles - Untrust Us cover: https://youtu.be/g7a2u9v0V0c
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2017 18:44 (six years ago) link
Oh I just got to ‘mouth wooed her’ I’m going to cry tears of envy.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 4 December 2017 18:45 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/auL2dU5U-4s
here's a great winters love student choir performance
― ufo, Monday, 4 December 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
I revisited this record for the first time in *years* yesterday... some excellent tracks (Winters Love, Leaf House, Softest Voice) and i liked the 12 minute song more than i remember. But everything after College is kinda... unlistenable??
Perhaps it's something i just need to listen to more until it clicks but all i could think was, like, how stoned was Pitchfork back in 2004 to think this was good enough to be an 8.9?? (if i remember the score correctly). Do people actually think Whaddit I Done is good?
and like, I LOVE those tracks I mentioned earlier. So i want to love this. but the second half is a mess!
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, 9 February 2023 13:26 (one year ago) link
it's funny how Who Could Be A Rabbit? sounds so dated. I like it, but it's very mid-2000. I think as a teenager i wished it was less weird, now i think it sounds so overtly pop!
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, 9 February 2023 13:28 (one year ago) link
Love this album.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 9 February 2023 13:30 (one year ago) link
Drop off on the last three tracks is real, but also I wouldn't say they're horrible. I always listened to those almost as soundscapes because the songwriting chops aren't on full display, a flip side to visiting friends that is not intentionally trying to be visiting friends. Maybe it's too forgiving a perspective but it works for me!
Softest voice to visiting friends is exactly what I want AnCo to be always. they're at their best at their most melancholy (see: Banshee Beat, Cuckoo Cuckoo, No More Running, man-of-oil EP)
― hrep (H.P), Monday, 13 February 2023 23:20 (one year ago) link
I quite like Whaddit I Done
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 03:20 (one year ago) link
We Tigers was robbed in this poll
We Tigers is my authentic teenager choice and also my closeted 28yo choice which I will never tell anyone about.
― hrep (H.P), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 04:25 (one year ago) link
visiting friends and the softest voice are the true victims. Glad kids on holiday got respect at least
― hrep (H.P), Tuesday, 14 February 2023 04:26 (one year ago) link