Collected Animals • Animal Collective at Levitation Austin

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Post **Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2016 5:49 am

Can I just say that AC totally saved this festival for me with this dj set and rescheduling their shit so efficiently. I got tix to other shit but holy fuck love them so much today

Post **Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2016 4:44 pm

Anyone know what set times one might expect?

Post **Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2016 4:58 pm

this is something I found, but dunno if it is accurate, sounds reasonable since doors are at 8
9:00-9:45 - Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
10:15-12:00am - Animal Collective

Post **Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2016 5:24 pm

float on sputnik wrote:

anyone able to score king gizzard tix?

looking for two

Who's gonna come through and save us??

Still need ticks!

Post **Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2016 8:53 pm

hybrination wrote:

this is something I found, but dunno if it is accurate, sounds reasonable since doors are at 8
9:00-9:45 - Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
10:15-12:00am - Animal Collective

seems accurate. I dm'd Avey on Instagram and he told me they go on at 10:15

Post **Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2016 9:02 pm

update on grizzard show: we got in - just have to wait in line for 30 minutes. cover was $5

Post **Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2016 9:15 pm

zaltakid2000 wrote:

hybrination wrote:
this is something I found, but dunno if it is accurate, sounds reasonable since doors are at 8
9:00-9:45 - Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
10:15-12:00am - Animal Collective

seems accurate. I dm'd Avey on Instagram and he told me they go on at 10:15

Nice. I'm grabbing Whataburger before lol

Post **Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2016 11:33 pm

Anybody have 1 ticket they're able to sell? Willing to pay whatever you want for it!

Post **Posted:** Sun May 01, 2016 4:30 am

Hey y'all raise your hand if you were raising your hand as they faded out of

Spoiler: show

Post **Posted:** Sun May 01, 2016 5:26 am

hands raised!!!

Post **Posted:** Sun May 01, 2016 5:44 am

Had a great time at the show. A few takeaways after seeing them 3 times so far this tour:

-Lying in the Grass live is a fucking JAM

-now that the tour has been going a while, they've added a lot more (improvised?) vocal parts during the transitions, which has made them even better than before.

-Avey totally nails his vocals during Bees, and it made me realize that most of the PW songs don't really give his voice a chance to shine because he is only singing in short bursts of one word or phrase. It's especially the case with the hocketing on pandas songs, but even on something like Floridada his voice doesn't really get the room to stretch out.

Post **Posted:** Sun May 01, 2016 5:51 am

Great Night!

Post **Posted:** Sun May 01, 2016 5:56 am

Float on and I logged the setlist, she's gonna post it soon

Post **Posted:** Sun May 01, 2016 5:59 am

Hounds
On delay
Lying in the grass
Vertical
Daily routine
Golden gal
Natural selection
Summing
Loch raven
Alvin row
Burglars

Encore:
Bees
Recycling
FloriDada

Post **Posted:** Sun May 01, 2016 6:01 am

the interludes were so amazing- praying someone recorded the set so i can relive this over and over

4th time seeing them this year and this was by far the best show yet: sound quality was fantastic, so much bass

Post **Posted:** Sun May 01, 2016 6:28 am

float on sputnik wrote:

the interludes were so amazing- praying someone recorded the set so i can relive this over and over

Thanks for the vid TheSuicidalDog!

....would love some new boots from the 3rd phase of the tour.....??

Post **Posted:** Sun May 01, 2016 7:46 am

Got SO faked out that they were gonna play leaf house before summing the wretch. Hope they will later in the tour, but LOVED the show as it was!

Post **Posted:** Sun May 01, 2016 7:55 am

That was a memorable show! Very fortunate to experience that!

Post **Posted:** Sun May 01, 2016 2:05 pm

I wasn't able to get tickets to this show :'(

Post **Posted:** Sun May 01, 2016 2:55 pm

I'll upload my lousy iphone voice memos recording of it if nobody has a higher quality version. I relistened to the first 3 songs on the way home and they dont sound great but not inaudible.

show was really amazing. saw abby on the way out i think.

did anyone stay around and talk to the band?

Post **Posted:** Sun May 01, 2016 4:37 pm

talked to abby after the show
attempted to get the set list from her but someone had nabbed it already

she said they were going to oklahoma today...
(or i think that's what she said)

the venue was pretty quick to start kicking people out

Post **Posted:** Sun May 01, 2016 6:31 pm

INCREDIBLE show. they were the best ive seen them. the transitions between songs were amazing, especially that little section at the end of summing the wretch. panda's vox were godlike too. blown away...

Post **Posted:** Sun May 01, 2016 6:44 pm

songtungs wrote:

INCREDIBLE show. they were the best ive seen them. the transitions between songs were amazing, especially that little section at the end of summing the wretch. panda's vox were godlike too. blown away...

I was honestly blown away by Panda's vocals. They were sooooo good. My first time seeing them!!

Post **Posted:** Sun May 01, 2016 9:03 pm

dang - wanted to go to this so bad ! didn't see that the tickets were on sale until 30 minutes after noon and they were sold out. hope someone got a recording !

Post **Posted:** Mon May 02, 2016 4:46 am

Wonderful set. The energy was fantastic due to the various Levitation refugees coming together to enjoy what we love.

Was able to record Golden Gal and Bees --> Recyling.

Will upload once I get back across the country.

Post **Posted:** Thu May 05, 2016 2:49 am

I wasn't there but based on my own experiences elsewhere, I'm assuming this rather confusing review is a load of bollocks:
http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/mu ... ollective/
"At the core of Animal Collective is their vocals. They can’t sing. Impeccable lockstep timing on exhortations by Portner and Lennox thus weave with the sonics. Driving and propulsive, the quartet plays right through that deficiency."

Post **Posted:** Thu May 05, 2016 3:02 am

I think that statement sort of applies to the songs with hocketing, but is completely wrong everywhere else. The timing is definitely impressive when they do the hocketing live, but I don't really think the melodies come through, so the singing doesn't sound great imo.

BUT, Panda sounded amazing at that show on Daily Routine, Loch Raven, and any other time he was singing sustained notes and not hocketing.

Post **Posted:** Thu May 05, 2016 3:03 am

Compost wrote:

I wasn't there but based on my own experiences elsewhere, I'm assuming this rather confusing review is a load of bollocks:
http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/mu ... ollective/
"At the core of Animal Collective is their vocals. They can’t sing. Impeccable lockstep timing on exhortations by Portner and Lennox thus weave with the sonics. Driving and propulsive, the quartet plays right through that deficiency."

AustinChronicle, go home. You're drunk.

Post **Posted:** Sun May 08, 2016 12:46 am

Here's a few tracks I recorded from the front row. Great night.

Post **Posted:** Sun May 08, 2016 5:59 am

Hey nice vids, cheers man.... i love boots.... & looks like Panda got a haircut

Post **Posted:** Mon May 09, 2016 2:03 pm

Hiff Cluxtable wrote:

Just throwing this out there...I will pay a reasonable price plus extra for pain and suffering in exchange for an Animal Collective poster. I'm local, too, so no shipping. Just can't make it right now.

Let me know if anyone could help me out with this.

http://nateduval.com/shop/animal-collective/ has both versions direct from the artist.