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Post **Posted:** Wed Jun 24, 2015 6:42 pm

lol gett scott storch and bring him out of the doldrums of bankruptcy

Post **Posted:** Wed Jun 24, 2015 8:12 pm

fingers crossed for a Lex Luger-produced AC album, personally. a synth rise on every track

Post **Posted:** Wed Jun 24, 2015 8:30 pm

Ben H. Allen III

Post **Posted:** Wed Jun 24, 2015 9:55 pm

Benjamin Hartwell Allen, the Third

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 12:36 am

If they bring Ben Allen back, I'll walk out.

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 2:00 am

Stoked, I'm sure everyone read that the boom said they are jamming/maybe recording? Also I wasn't convinced deakin was out but more pics are showing no deak.

https://instagram.com/p/4Q4x9ZSD4u/

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 2:19 am

appy halloween wrote:

Stoked, I'm sure everyone read that the boom said they are jamming/maybe recording? Also I wasn't convinced deakin was out but more pics are showing no deak.

https://instagram.com/p/4Q4x9ZSD4u/

it is hard to tell! maybe he going to produce this time... Down There is ... although the quality of the music helps, probably one of the best produced albums of the past fifty years.

it would be possible that if he does not feel like touring, instead he will help the music to be perfect in other ways.

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 2:21 am

would be psyched if deakin wasn't involved sorry deakin

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 2:28 am

Well this is interesting

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 2:52 am

Atiba's engineering this time, obviously guys

jusswerjk wrote:

If they bring Ben Allen back, I'll walk out.

Yeah I don't know if I could handle that either

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 4:18 am

What's so bad about Ben Allen? He was fine on mpp and the boys obviously wanted that busy sound on chz

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 6:05 am

i've heard through the grapevine that they are actually recording in LA (hollywood to be more specific) and that josh isn't there. i was pretty skeptical that they were recording, rather than just writing, but my friend who lives there and is just one degree of separation away is insistent on it. i was also unsure about no josh, but the pictures seem to be supporting that. maybe he's working on solo stuff...

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 6:10 am

Holy fuck I'm in LA for the next 10 days (flew in today). What studio are they at??

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 6:15 am

jusswerjk wrote:

If they bring Ben Allen back, I'll walk out.

michael wrote:

would be psyched if deakin wasn't involved sorry deakin

Wow, some of you guys are real dicks

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 6:55 am

really weird if there's no deakin. I hope we find out why it sounds troubling

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 7:57 am

bc nobody likes deakin / maybe he needed a break after becoming a meme / maybe he has been dropped so the other 3 can go back to making that mpp $$$

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 8:32 am

fuck do you people not like hcti/feels/strawberry jam?

I <3 deak fo lyf

and wide eyed is awesome, fuck the haters

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 10:26 am

Eh sorry but Deak *is* in that photo, sitting on the couch beside Noah

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 10:32 am

In seriousness though, look at the bottles. Everyone seems to be on their first one yet look at the end of the table, opposite geo: another bottle by the empty space on the couch. Obviously Deak has just popped off to the bathroom and these jokers were like 'Hey, let's fuck with the fans some more'

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 10:34 am

Shit the only hole in my theory, albeit a capsizing one, is that any extra empty bottles obviously belong to Avey

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 12:28 pm

roark wrote:

jusswerjk wrote:
If they bring Ben Allen back, I'll walk out.

michael wrote:
would be psyched if deakin wasn't involved sorry deakin

Wow, some of you guys are real dicks

It's just cool when they change it up, line-up, set-up, producer...

Deakin took the picture.

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 3:02 pm

the feeling store wrote:

i've heard through the grapevine that they are actually recording in LA (hollywood to be more specific) and that josh isn't there. i was pretty skeptical that they were recording, rather than just writing, but my friend who lives there and is just one degree of separation away is insistent on it. i was also unsure about no josh, but the pictures seem to be supporting that. maybe he's working on solo stuff...

just one degree of separation away? is your friend atiba jefferson?

I'm skeptical too, they're pretty secretive about their recording process so I don't think they'd be telling random people about it. then again it has been a good 6-7 years since Merriweather and the surrounding hype so maybe they're more chill about keeping stuff secret now? idk

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 7:52 pm

If all this speculation is somehow true and only Brian, Dave and Noah are recording the new batch of songs, then it could be really cool if for their next tour Deakin is the opening act for AC

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 8:32 pm

I wanna hear a noisey r'n'b vibe with Noah holding tight beats, messed vox AND DEAK FREAKIN OUT ALL OVER IT.

.....so maybe just the guys covering crosswords for an hour

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 10:42 pm

No beats, please. I've had enough of these chunky dancey grooves. Just pluck a fucking acoustic guitar and sing like mad beautiful bastards.

Post **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 11:00 pm

Trying to imagine what a new AC record will sound like is like trying to imagine a new colour

Post **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2015 6:11 am

Hmmmmm

Post **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:02 am

A quick google search tells me that it was taken from this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies

It's basically a motivational card to help a musician write music.

Post **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:33 am

Tropic of Cans wrote:

Trying to imagine what a new AC record will sound like is like trying to imagine a new colour

Post **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2015 1:02 pm

an oblique strategies deck on a mixing desk. I'll be damned, maybe they really are recording

Unless avey is messing w us

Post **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2015 2:21 pm

maybe they just gonna drop an album on us

Post **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2015 8:50 pm

I think they might

Post **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2015 8:50 pm

It's gonna be a free-form electronic album with elements of ambience, jazz, glitch, and minimal techno

Post **Posted:** Fri Jun 26, 2015 10:33 pm

Album has to be quite far away still. They haven't seemed to have done that much work on it so far. I'm sure it's still fairly early in the process, even if they are recording some things

Post **Posted:** Sat Jun 27, 2015 2:17 am

i honestly could see them just dropping an album on us. they like to do things they have never done before, and they have never just dropped an album out of nowhere. and it seems more common for artists to do it nowadays.

I'm probably just getting gym hopes up though

Post **Posted:** Sat Jun 27, 2015 2:20 am

scarfacesam317 wrote:

i honestly could see them just dropping an album on us. they like to do things they have never done before, and they have never just dropped an album out of nowhere. and it seems more common for artists to do it nowadays.

I'm probably just getting gym hopes up though

no i feel you scarsam. I dont think theyd ever go that far but im sure the album unveiling will be like nothing we've conceived.

Post **Posted:** Sat Jun 27, 2015 10:50 am

The album is released via many USBs attached to the collars of stray dogs released around America. The song names are the different breeds and the track lengths give clues as to their geographical location.

Post **Posted:** Sat Jun 27, 2015 12:08 pm

Post **Posted:** Sat Jun 27, 2015 4:54 pm

Hahaha

I don't think they'll drop it out of nowhere, they seem to appreciate the album release cycle. I admit it's entirely possible I'm wrong , though.

Post **Posted:** Sat Jun 27, 2015 6:39 pm

They mentioned before, years ago now, that they were interested in recording an album before touring it. And that would be a very new thing for them and they seem to like new things. So even if I wouldn't go so far as to say "they're probably going to do that some time", I think it's a real possibility.