[Tropic]

Stanshant, have you picked up our tickets for the Manchester show yet?

[Tropic]

Gonna sift through the AMA again now for movie/album recs

[Tropic]

Oh ya I never mentioned last night but I thought it was funny how their proof posted was in no way actual proof.

[doggyinacoma]

lol yeah just "hey indieheads"

after some consideration i made my own alt track list for PW, just to keep things fresh. I tried not to change it up too much...

Spoiler: show

Floridada
Golden Gal
Hocus Pocus
Vertical
Bagels in Kiev
On Delay
Spilling Guts
Summing the Wretch
Lying in the Grass
The Burglars
Natural Selection
Recycling

Vertical into Bagels works really well imo

lemme know what you think... i usually don't do this to albums, but since PW is filled with a bunch of standout tracks that don't really transition (i'd never do this to CHz) i tried it out.

[glenn]

I haven't really followed this thread that well, so it might already have been answered: but who wrote which song? Avey and Panda sang each others jams?

Help me clear this up, fellas.

/ glenn

[FAF]

Avey: Floridada, Vertical, The Burglars, Bagels in Kiev, On Delay, Golden Gal
Panda: Hocus Pocus, Lying in the Grass, Natural Selection, Spilling Guts, Summing the Wretch, Recycling

[roopn]

FloriDada - Avey
Hocus Pocus - Panda
Vertical - Avey
Lying In The Grass - Panda
The Burglars - Avey
Natural Selection - Panda
Bagels In Kiev - Avey
On Delay - Avey
Spilling Guts - Panda
Summing The Wretch - Panda
Golden Gal - Avey
Recycling - Panda

[doggyinacoma]

I think they said somewhere that they wrote the lyrics for each other? But that can't be right can it? Noah's lyrics are so Noah, and Aveys are so Avey

[roopn]

They wrote their own lyrics, but they both sing on every track. In the past if for example Panda was singing on an Avey track, PB would just figure his own shit out. This time Avey wrote all of Panda's parts in his songs and vice versa.

[Fonz]

Why does the first song have to sound like its a cut off of the wiggles soundtrack?

[doggyinacoma]

Thanks for clearin that up roopn

[lhtd]

The section of "On Delay" after the chorus sounds like the return of the happy singing band mentality. Loving it!

[Stanshant]

Tropic of Cans wrote:

Stanshant, have you picked up our tickets for the Manchester show yet?

I am going if you are. Booked a hotel too. That's not a come on, though, sorry.

[Tropic]

Stanshant wrote:

Tropic of Cans wrote:

Stanshant, have you picked up our tickets for the Manchester show yet?

I am going if you are. Booked a hotel too. That's not a come on, though, sorry.

If they aren't coming to Ireland I will probably shoot over. My staying with you in the hotel is assumed on this side, anyways.

[lucasmoreira]

best friends forever:

[rampface]

lol That seriously gives me feels. Such sweet boys hahaha

[thespectrum]

so cute. such bros.

[jetski]

Really love this Atlantic review. Sort of written for an audience who are unfamiliar w the band, but nonetheless a thoughtful and impartial look at the album
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen ... ve/470745/

[Dudders]

Dudders wrote:

Spent a bit of time with the album myself (trying not to read many reviews) and think it's just okay. I get the feeling from Floridada - the best song by a wide margin in my view - that they really could have pulled off some wonderful, concise pop album, but there's not enough variety in the sound (most songs seem to use the same dark synths and go at the same breakneck tempo, and the overuse of Boys Latin vocals are a problem) so it ends up feeling disappointingly small-scale and one-note in comparison to their other stuff. It could well have just been the huge buildup (this the first album of theirs I've been around for as a fan) for such a tiny, cheery album when people might have been expecting something colossal, so I reckon it will be looked back on favourably.

bollocks to all that

this album is fantastic

[FAF]

the more i listen to painting with, the more it rules

i still don't really get bagels though

[Tropic]

Think this is my final-ish ranking of the tracks:

Vertical




Lying in the Grass
Hocus Pocus
FloriDada
The Burglars
Recycling
Natural Selection
Golden Gal
Bagels in Kiev
On Delay
Summing the Wretch
Spilling Guts

[eiki]

I really feel like Summing the Wretch doesn't get enough love. Probably my favorite of Panda's tracks.

[Tropic]

It's a great track. There are no bad ones. Spilling Guts is super, only ranks last because, you know.

[scrambledgreggs]

Having trouble with a definitive ranking but these are my tiers:

Summing the Wretch / Hocus Pocus / The Burglars / On Delay
Lying in the Grass / Recycling
FloriDada / Golden Gal / Vertical / Spilling Guts
Bagels in Kiev / Natural Selection

[jfw7]

same but recycling should be higher

unless i'm reading it backwards, in which case

[rampface]

eiki wrote:

I really feel like Summing the Wretch doesn't get enough love. Probably my favorite of Panda's tracks.

Yep. One of my immediate favorites and definitely top tier P-Bear.




I guess my ranking as of now is something like....

On Delay
The Burglars
Summing the Wretch
Golden Gal
FloriDada
Hocus Pocus
Bagels in Kiev
Spilling Guts
Lying in the Grass
Vertical
Recycling
Natural Selection

[gallowsbird]

After giving the albums a few listens across the last week or so, I think I'm realizing that I don't feel at home in this AC era--which is not a comment meant to dismiss the last two albums, but is more of a statement of where I'm at as a music listener/person. I just think that the magic I got from listening to feels and SJ was connected to who I was as a teen. I hope seeing some of these new songs live can give me a new appreciation for them, but it's also bittersweet to sense my excitement for future releases diminishing over time.
But for those of you who are in love with what AC has been up to for the last five years, I hope the group gives you memorable experiences--they certainly were more than generous with me.

[Fovrodi]

Stop using the word "magic" in your criticisms everybody. I can't stress this enough

[davidvidvid]

^

[faded arrow]

Fovrodi wrote:

Stop using the word "magic" in your criticisms everybody. I can't stress this enough

why? its a legitimate complaint. quite a few people are thinking these songs lack the emotional strength / personal longevity that the ones from ac's past albums had. it doesnt need to be more than week old for me to feel like its never going to click the way i hope it would

[gallowsbird]

Fovrodi wrote:

Stop using the word "magic" in your criticisms everybody. I can't stress this enough

Seems like a good enough word for what I was describing--you know, my own experiences. And maybe it's emptied of meaning as more people apply it to more things, but for this situation, I like it, so I'll keep it.

[davidvidvid]

My rank

On Delay
Recycling
Golden Gal / The Burglars / Hocus pocus / Vertical
FloriDada
Lying in the Grass / Bagels / Summing the Wretch
Natural Selection
Spilling Guts

What a record
Edit had to move vertical up from third to last. Literally just understood the parking lot part at the end when you have the percussion, that weird sound (no idea, its like a sharp horn/synth sound) embellishing the melody, and the general synth glory, and then that vocal echo effect that comes in every few seconds.

Fuck me another edit. I moved bagels up one spot to tied with LitG

Edit yep I'm back. Bumped summing up one

[sky crawler]

what video game do u guys think spilling guts is about

[jetski]

rocket league

[northernchild]

Victor Borge wrote:

Really love this Atlantic review. Sort of written for an audience who are unfamiliar w the band, but nonetheless a thoughtful and impartial look at the album
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainmen ... ve/470745/

nice.

re: magic. nobody knows wtf that would mean for themselves if it's just emphasizing your own experience. either say "this album is not magic" to yourself or give cogent explanations of your disappointments

[the feeling store]

lucasmoreira wrote:

best friends forever:

Does anyone know what song this is??

[Mulefa]

I can't get enough of this album. (No luck on my digital download, must have been a packaging error - so I just dropped another $8 on itunes. it's worth it).

It doesn't have the sprawling feel or variety of my other favorites of theirs (Strawberry Jam, Feels), but it's fun. I'm not sure where I'd rank it among the rest of their albums, I was pretty high on Centipede Hz when that first came out too and now have a hard time going back to it, but it gets me excited about where these guys are going.

[northernchild]

Sorry for the bad vibes, but samey and magic are not good descriptors of anything unless it's a typo while talking about a magician named sammy.

[AudibleKayak]

northernchild wrote:

Sorry for the bad vibes, but samey and magic are not good descriptors of anything unless it's a typo while talking about a magician named sammy.

I enjoyed Painting With a lot and I think samey and magic are perfectly fine descriptors. Very basic descriptors, but descriptors none the less. Everyone's entitled to their feelings and some people just didn't enjoy Painting With. Oh well.

[Cussing Bum]

Samey is fine as a descriptor even if it's wrong

Magic has zero objective meaning in this context. If the purpose of writing your thoughts on the album is to communicate to other people, it does not accomplish that. But you could write it in your journal and it should work just fine.