[kingo]

This song has been blowing me away all day. Everything about it is so fantastic, and it's got so much going on in it. It's got dry (reminiscent of strawberry jam) but incredibly dense (merriweather, centipede hz) production and different harmonies (as well as trade offs) come flying at you constantly. The song has all these great little sections with their own harmonies and trade offs, and it's all repeatedly wrapped up by Floridada's glorious chorus. The way they've embraced the pop chorus on this song is incredible, merriweather may have had the poppiest melodies the guys will ever write, but this song really utilizes pop song structure in the best way possible. The production also has great little intricacies throughout the song.

[warhorse miraged]

TapirMache wrote:

it's the least melodically inventive chorus they've ever written.

hehe

[jerry wonder]

TapirMache wrote:

it's the least melodically inventive chorus they've ever written.

what about TS' "l-l-l-l-l-let go!" pretty uninventive but still real good

[warhorse miraged]

whats with all this talk bout inventiveness with regards to melody


bit silly innit

[weirdradio]

(In Spinal Tap voice)

It's a bridge about a bridge!

[bansheebeaten]

i like how crunchy the percussion is

[ROYGBIV]

love all this talk about wanting to mix all different places together / SAAAME same-ing so hard

I WANNA DISCOVER THE KEY AND OPEN THE EVERYWHERE PLACE

[_ground_of_being_]

The beginning reminds me of Grass

[archie]

what the fukkkk is with animal collective n their ability 2 make me so fukkin happy

[Treckasec]

_ground_of_being_ wrote:

The beginning reminds me of Grass

The first couple seconds before the Grass drumbeat reminds me of Dan Deacon.

[ManSpeakingBackwards]

weirdradio wrote:

(In Spinal Tap voice)

It's a bridge about a bridge!

:deakweep:

[bootygoode]

i dont think i can relate to animal collective anymore

[archie]

the preakness -> grass

[warhorse miraged]

grass was the song i had on repeat when i told my mom i think i may have found a new fav band


but og preak from keep lent me many tears

[weirdradio]

This tune reminds me of Lion King. In the best way

[TapirMache]

I actually like it now, I hadn't listened through good speakers yet (or smoked pot). it is a very fun track, the production is really interesting (slasher flicks/strawberry jam vibes). it's not that I don't like the chorus, I'm just not blown away considering their amazing history of choruses; Avey's voice sounds great though!

[Andrew_VB]

jerry wonder wrote:

TapirMache wrote:

it's the least melodically inventive chorus they've ever written.

what about TS' "l-l-l-l-l-let go!" pretty uninventive but still real good

that's not part of ts's chorus

[FAF]

yeah the TS chorus is

'Cause your own's the sweetest thing inside of you...,etc.

[jetski]

this song delivered on PK's promise of vocal tradeoffs so hard

[Andrew_VB]

Victor Borge wrote:

this song delivered on PK's promise of vocal tradeoffs so hard

so true, absolutely love it.

[weirdradio]

Hakuna madada

[csw]

Deak is sad because this song ripped off the opening track to his upcoming album which was going to be "NevaDada" and have vocal tradeoffs with himself

[kingo]

csw wrote:

Deak is sad because this song ripped off the opening track to his upcoming album which was going to be "NevaDada" and have vocal tradeoffs with himself

by that I think you mean vocal trade offs with his long lost twin brother... that's the reason his solo album is delayed! he found his bro and now they're making a secret album, "Hey pal, just deakin around"

[Kings and Birds]

I suppose this is me coming out of the AC closet again. No one must ever know.

[Saferintheflowers]

I love the vocal trade off between the two! It reminds me of two friends that just got back from a trip and they're so excited to tell everything about it at once!! Avey has a great voice without it being layered in effects!
Its very fun song too! Much different lyrical then chz where I feel like most of those lyrics are dark. I hope most of,the album is fun like,this!
I absolutely love the drums too!! I think someone already compared it to Grass and I totally agree! I really believe this album going to masterpiece once we get it in full!! I also feel like it's going to open the door to new fans like MPP did!
I'm very pleased with this being the first AC song since CHZ

[IkoOvo]

lyrically reminds me of moonjock in a way

[MisterMagpie]

This is how I feel when I listen to this song

[Frumpkin]

IkoOvo wrote:

lyrically reminds me of moonjock in a way

totally - something about the travel themes and grounded imagery and references. feels like a long lost cousin of mj.

[myersbeard]

wow thank you that bart gif has changed the chorus for me and now i love it

[hatredcopter]

i haven't listened yet but I am super happy to see people comparing it to moonjock, water curses, grass, little fang. all A+++ songs

[Me Tiger]

I like this anti-reverb approach. And though it's probably the poppiest they ever did, I think it's actually experimental for them — they had this idea of all sounds being close to the listener, song structures without redundancy, and followed this direction. It's interesting to have an album like that made by them, like one of the different directions they took.

Usually I don't pay much attention to the lyrics, because music (voice included) hits directly, but sometimes it also clicks with the words — here it's 'the bridge so old so let it go'. It's like non-attachment to the problems we produce with our thoughts, believing these problems are real. So this part encourages me to let it go.

I like how Noah sounds in the bridge, like he's so young, younger brother of Dave, hehe.

[dio]

honeycomb/ gotham into applesauce/ crimson into floridada is a great vibe.

can't freakin wait for gnip gnop/ hounds of bairro

[Vovenarg]

lol. i'm personally more psyched for the rest of this album first at the moment!

[dio]

ya but im just like admiring their singles game. but no ya, when we have a whole album of songs this good... i dont kno if ill actually be able to handle it

[timespan]

Damn, its been some time since I've listened to AC. This song is bringing all back. A++

[CokePotCrack]

I love everyone here, and we are all in the everywhere place together!

(Big gay vibrato voice) LOOOOVE IT!!! Super happy about how this beast sounds. Love the dryness and the incredible weirdness hahahah!!! that laugh tho! Wtf, Idk what to say. Super happy with the crazy mixed up panda/avey vox, also, everything else. Not gonna get too analytical with this puppy yet, but boy, im excited as shit to hear this album, i think im gonna love the fuck out it.

I haven't listened to much colin stetson (btw fuckibng crazy theyre bringing in him and john cale, wtf hahaha!?) is mr stetson on this track, some one said something along those lines.

[Tap]

yeah, listen close after the wipeout sample and you can hear him doing his arpeggio thing, tho it seems like he's in a lot of spots on here but it kinda blends in with the synth.

[roopn]

can someone explain the wipeout sample to me? what exactly is it from?

[Tap]

the laugh at the beginning, and also the w- sound of wipeout blends in with the w- of the song lyric

[roopn]

thank you, I legit thought you all meant the TV show total wipeout