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Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 1:16 am

but I don't think you even know what hocketing is

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 1:18 am

fine, hocketing isn't really used that much on natural selection. but when it is it's used dreadfullly and makes me think that maybe panda bear isn't actually god. happy?

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 1:19 am

a little bit

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 1:21 am

we'd be happier if natural selection wasn't ass and this album was soaked in reverb and not farty synths

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 1:25 am

officially foe'd

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 1:25 am

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 1:30 am

Ethmin wrote:

officially foe'd

The theory of natural selection, enacted in an online forum

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 1:30 am

too bad i would never consider another ac fan a foe

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 1:31 am

like if trump was an ac fan - nvm

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 2:42 am

#DontTaintThePaint

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 3:09 am

hehehe... taint

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 3:32 am

(really unexplainable)

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 3:34 am

kingo wrote:

we'd be happier if natural selection wasn't ass and this album was soaked in reverb and not farty synths

this guy is an ANCO fan!!!!

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 4:08 am

kingo wrote:

we'd be happier if natural selection wasn't ass and this album was soaked in reverb and not farty synths

lol dude fuck off

I don't really like natural selection that much either, but the reverb thing? really? that's so... stereotypical haha

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 4:09 am

On Delay's a real sweetiepie of a song. I don't know how I feel about the album as a whole yet, really. But On Delay and Golden Gals are wonderful

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 4:20 am

theres this animated banner ad for painting with in the spotify app and it has caused my computer to restart 3 times now

just wanted to get that out there

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 4:25 am

I'm really surprised how polarising natural selection is. I guess it's pretty intense and "edm" like kingo said, but imo it has some of the more interesting uses of hocketing on the album.

What do I know though, I also think wide eyed is one of the best tracks on CHz lol and no one seems to agree with that either

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 4:41 am

whos sayin they dont like NS? prbly in my top 3 pb songs with recycling and spilling guts but its a rlly hard call at this point

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 4:44 am

agreed!

I know nobody gives a fuck about power rankings but here's my new pb list:

Spoiler: show

fuck the last half of hocus pocus is so good though! splitting hairs basically :/ Pretty much the only take away here is that Summing the Wretch is the only song I'm not so hot on.

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 4:57 am

Natural Selection was probably the biggest grower for me out of the bunch, now its one of my favorites - a definite banger. someone posted this earlier but I agree and really think that it makes the perfect closer for side 1

roopn wrote:

I'm really surprised how polarising natural selection is. I guess it's pretty intense and "edm" like kingo said, but imo it has some of the more interesting uses of hocketing on the album.

What do I know though, I also think wide eyed is one of the best tracks on CHz lol and no one seems to agree with that either

roopn- I love Wide Eyed too, its such a jam. my first AC show was p4k 2011 and they opened with Wide Eyed. it was so good then and the studio version is still killer. other folks just can't handle the deak, I guess
:deakweep:

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 5:41 am

Not a criticism

Some of these songs would fit comfortably on the Lego Movie soundtrack

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 6:49 am

Do people on here not like Wide Eyed? thats actually one of my favortes on chz. More power to you, Deak

The reason Natural Selection isnt clicking with me isnt the EDM-ness. I don't mind a bumpin AC track. it worked great as a concert opener. I agree it has one of the better uses of hocketing. However, the melody just isnt great to me. It's not easy to latch onto, and it seems just kind of boring tbh. The way noah sings is unexpectedly irritating for me too, it comes across a bit robotic. his voice is so pretty that its way more suited to singing melodic lines rather than punchy single syllable stuff.

all my opinion naturally

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 6:54 am

demonclusters wrote:

Do people on here not like Wide Eyed?

It sticks out like a sore thumb on that album. It's just a monotonous snoozer without much emotional resonance.

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 6:55 am

those lyrics tho

honestly i find father time to be a lot less emotional

edit: this is the painting with thread what are we doing

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 7:05 am

ya for some reason wide eyed has nvr rlly connected with me. i def dont mind it in the flow of chz tho, and i kinda dig aveys minimal guitar work. into deakins voice, and i def dont dislike it... it, ntb and monkey are kind of equally a low point for chz for me. why the whole thing has a kind of weaker middle section for me which is why this album is awesome. love the whole thing, but especially the middle is fucking perfect. Burglars thru to spilling guts is like my favorite ac run ever nearly

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 7:10 am

Has this been posted? Cnn interview. http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/19/politics/ ... l-warming/ Anyone know where geo got that rad Stealie shirt?

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 7:19 am

Spoiler: show

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 7:25 am

Moooop! Come to slc!

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 7:34 am

I've been loosing sleep over this album! When I lay down to sleep at night, these songs just replay through my mind constantly, provoking wakefulness!

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 7:46 am

Just as I've experienced with every other anco album, PW gets better with time. I was worried about this with pw, because I was so excited about it right when it first dropped. It's been 95% of what I've listened to since

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 8:52 am

if people want to listen to sung tongs or feels remember they also have prospect hummer, pullhair rubeye, young prayer, people ep, campfire songs, and theres also rareties like always you/eagle kisser, not to mention the acoustic pulleys and wide eyed, all in similar veins.

and hey, who knows, maybe deak's guitar on his new album will flash you back to the feels days?

enjoy!

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 9:02 am

On Delay's melody reminds me of Kids on Holiday actually

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 9:06 am

Kids On Delay

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 9:11 am

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 10:41 am

Diomedes wrote:

ya for some reason wide eyed has nvr rlly connected with me. i def dont mind it in the flow of chz tho, and i kinda dig aveys minimal guitar work. into deakins voice, and i def dont dislike it... it, ntb and monkey are kind of equally a low point for chz for me. why the whole thing has a kind of weaker middle section for me which is why this album is awesome. love the whole thing, but especially the middle is fucking perfect. Burglars thru to spilling guts is like my favorite ac run ever nearly

wooow.
those 3 are the 3 standout CHZ-tracks to me, and even when i do like this album more as a whole, I do miss tracks like that on this album, tracks that have a big, inspired gesture, something that feels really heartfelt and daring and urgent.

no single track on this album has that really (maybe Vertical and On Delay).

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 2:12 pm

Avey's syncopated vocal harmony in Natural Selection is awesome, in "Strings tied to the hands-han-an-ans-ans-ans-ans-ans...mou-mou-mou-mou-mou-mou

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 2:37 pm

i am stll loving this album but in an odd way, it has gotten even more samey the more i listen to it. floridada is a total oddball here but the rest are so similar. summing and natural selection are really falling off to me. i think it is because, while i get the frantic non-stop pace of the album, it uses almost identical sounds and techniques which make it more monotonous than it really needs to be.

sample > farty bass > simple electro beat > verse > hocketing > verse > hocketing > end

i love hocus pocus, bagels, on delay, recycling and vertical the most. they are all amazing

for what it's worth, wide eyed is the only track i skip on chz. it doesnt fit at all imo.

just my opinions though, im still exploring and listening to it almost constantly. i do feel like this will have a short shelf life in the beginning though.

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 3:14 pm

I know I'm in the minority, but I don't see how Hocus Pocus is so much better than NS, SG, or StW. I like those three better than HP. I like the edge those other three have, whereas HP seems middling. Not that that's a bad thing, or it's a bad song -- I like it, just less than those other three.

Also, I wish you guys would stop using the word "farty." Is the only point of reference for a abrasive synths serious the sound that comes out yo butts? That's unfortunate. There's a lot of non butt-related tunes out there with similar synths.

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 3:29 pm

faded arrow wrote:

theres this animated banner ad for painting with in the spotify app and it has caused my computer to restart 3 times now

just wanted to get that out there

lol this reminded me that a friend of mine who tried to buy AC tickets in 2012 crashed his computer and blames the band for it.

Fan wrote:

Avey's syncopated vocal harmony in Natural Selection is awesome, in "Strings tied to the hands-han-an-ans-ans-ans-ans-ans...mou-mou-mou-mou-mou-mou

YES. I love love love Avey's chorus thing

Post **Posted:** Tue Feb 23, 2016 3:39 pm

You know what else could be considered samey? Campfire songs, danse, feels, hcti, hollinndagain, maybe even mpp...