[neo]

Hellomark wrote:

Also feel like people are sleeping on In Pieces, haven't seen it mentioned much yet but I think it's perfect.

yes thank you!! my favorite on the album i think, so raw, love the rubato tempo and the occasional interjection of layered/effected vocals in between more natural ones

[Tropic]

This feels very different to just about any other AC record. Probably closest to Pullhair in how outlandish it feels.

Favourite so far is def Ms Secret. Sounds like a Western, and there are so many great lines. Have six hours of traveling ahead of me today so looking forward to listening a few more times

[CokePotCrack]

Lacrimosa wrote:

AWWWW YEAAAAAAA!!! This is that shit i like! I'm in love, lads.

Making ya boy feel all kinds of emotions! I was scared, sad, elated and jubilant, and also scared asf but in a good way. Makes me think of tripping fuckin face on an alieny beach with not but a few pups 'round to watch the sun go down.

Reminds me a bit of AC and AC related softer stuff (Young prayer, etc.) but definitely a big ol' step into some gushy, liquidy, beach-swampish newsht. Such warmth. Really just gushing genuine emotions %100 of the time. Not one part of it felt forced or cold to me. The whole album was just like, "drink these drugs now open the floodgates on everything you've been feeling and dump it into the lagoon and go slop around out there like a mad man until you cry your eyes out."

I agree with what a lot of y'all are sayin. Its crazy to think AV went from Painting With to this. These lads make such a variety of different sounds. So cool they're still all over the board like this. Hes done so many new tings with this album too. Different kinds of melodies, etc. Love what hes doing with his voice on PJ, sounds like and old genderless person with a pretty yet raspy voice. Idk, i'm just freaking out.

Sorry if this was a bit much, but i'm feeling this. This thread is awesome.

[spoogn]

Boat race is avey's cosplay

[deadwall]

TetsuoUnderFire wrote:

deadwall wrote:

First thing, love-this-shit....its gold, freakin gold, that said...

Anyone else having a sigh of relief with this album's content signaling an end to the maximal era?

I'm finding myself so happy and relieved that I haven't died before this came out...all the fear of the boys going away as I got older and into some seriously dark years...phew

now I wonder if Panda's new stuff will be comparatively minimal? a boy can dream

I certainly wouldn't call this album "minimal" by any stretch of the word.

you wouldnt? semantics yall, cmon

I'm saying that it'll be interesting to be able to deduce that more than one member of the band is on this kinda vibe...wondering what it could say about possible new eras for the band when they do reconvene after this solo cycle

[lucasmoreira]

for me painting with can easily be described as "minimal", specially compared with things like chz

[lou6330]

louie elffawaffle 6330 crunch

[Lacrimosa]

Coral Chords yes.

and yes this is sad AF, but I already was so i'm dancing withit.

loving this album very much love y'all

[Lacrimosa]

his voice is so good,
I love hearing his soft, beautiful, meandering, voice again.

[Lacrimosa]

aaaaand, im at Season High again,

crying omg I missed this avey so much

[dud]

more like eucaLEAKDIS amirite guys (iu'm sorry)

love this version of selection of a place

[Lacrimosa]

[TB8S]

There is a definitely a general melancholy to this whole album which I love to death. I'm not sure if this would have resonated with me as much as it does now when I was younger. I can hear the maturity and sincerity in his voice.

[sound science]

The "not thinking about" part of Selection of a Place almost sounds like it could be the climax of the album. I agree that it sounds more theatrical than the Rio Negro version.

Also, I'm really loving Ms. Secret. That might be my favorite at the moment.

[speen]

Oh shit it freebirded

I've been in Cape Cod for the last week and have had no signal so imma abstain from this board till I hear it

Also, underrated post:

secretesecrete wrote:

Could i get a pm?
first time posting on these boards, i was a legend on CA in '09

[Dudders]

is anyone else even slightly turned on by avey's vocals on PJ

[Lacrimosa]

sound science wrote:

The "not thinking about" part of Selection of a Place almost sounds like it could be the climax of the album. I agree that it sounds more theatrical than the Rio Negro version.

Also, I'm really loving Ms. Secret. That might be my favorite at the moment.

i dont like the intro/ that much tho but the rest is fucked up beautiful

[TetsuoUnderFire]

sound science wrote:

The "not thinking about" part of Selection of a Place almost sounds like it could be the climax of the album. I agree that it sounds more theatrical than the Rio Negro version.

Also, I'm really loving Ms. Secret. That might be my favorite at the moment.

I like his falsetto during the "suddenly i wake up" part on MOTW better. Generally it sounds much more effectivr stripped down

[rohcti]

Boat Race is incredible

[Tropic]

Lunch out of order pt 2 is the most beautiful track. Wish it was longer

[Hellomark]

AND THE SUN DRENCHED DAUGHTER
SPIED THE OTTER

Also all of the pedal steel on this album is incredibly beautiful, well done Susan Alcorn. Some
Parts feel like the closest thing we'll get to an Avey country album and I love it.

[neo]

http://www.stereogum.com/1949626/qa-ave ... interview/

new interview up on stereogum! he goes into a loooooot of detail about the recording process for the album/his relationship with angel/lyrical content/etc. great read

[Stanshant]

Cor! Thanks, chief. I can't quite get over how indirect this is compared to the vast majority of AC music since 2006. There are only the odd sections here and there which are really standing out, which is why I say it reminds me of the last three songs on Sung Tongs. Its rewards are going to come with familiarity and understanding, at least, I hope they will.I'm finding the process very exciting.

[dio]

can't believe these date back to 2014.. idk why thats weird to me, feels like reality in the US is drastically different back in pre-'16.

[Stanshant]

Fantastic interview, also very surprised by that. Great to see him namecheck KLF - Chill Out, one of my favourite records when I was in my late teens. I once listened to it with some mates, out of my box, sitting on a cliff and thought I could see some Druids lighting fires in a circle. We started chanting to engage with the Druids and I stopped feeling afraid.

[zacherywolf77]

Surprised no one has mentioned sun city girls as a comparison yet... and generally 90s alt rock it's alot of that vocal processing that thinking fellers and othersee used. Ttg and last three sung tongs, and safest voices comparisons are apt.
The interview and the fact that he is touring? At least playing 1 or a couple shows by the end of the year makes me think that the moth light material will also be out before another full band album? It makes alot of sense that these were written some time before and now we have these rough early songs that he might be sitting on/wanting to tour and release some time in first half '18?

[Pan]

reminds me of climax golden twins (far more melodic of course) with the ethereal yet tactility of a lot of the samples

If this was written back in 2014 I suppose this was the 'acoustic' album that avey wanted to put out in 2015 but noah convinced him to put it on hold

[Stanshant]

Must be, yep! Can't believe it actually came out. I'm now listening in bed and halfway through, every song is doing something different for me. Goodness me, this is a beauty.

PJ and In Pieces is an incredible back-to-back but you could go through the entire record and pick them out.

[Juan]

Which song would you guys say is the thematic centerpiece of the album?
In Pieces? Selection of a Place?
None? All?

[neo]

Juan wrote:

Which song would you guys say is the thematic centerpiece of the album?
In Pieces? Selection of a Place?
None? All?

coral lords

[maromi]

GUYS. Lunch Out of Order Pt. 2 is just...staggeringly beautiful. Mournful, optimistic, triumphant, nostalgic...I can't quite place it, but...what a song. The church-bell sounding sound is my favorite on the album.

Also Jackson 5 sounds kind of like a Tune Yards song.

and OMG ROAMER!!!!

[alvinrowx]

Stunning album, I'm so happy.
Already better than CHz, Painting With, Sleep Cycle and Meeting of the Waters, to me.
Ms Secret is beautiful and the way the chords and Avey's voice sound on PJ are captivating.
I feel like PJ is one of the most powerful songs and will be a real grower. Breathtaking.

[spoogn]

Avey always amazes with his vision... it seems impossible to top. Lunch Out Of Order Part 1 and Part 2 are the best examples of this I can place. As well as those church bells at the end of Sports in July, being in New Jersey where I was born or anywhere in the north you hear them everywhere and being that Avey grew up in Baltimore I saw it as an immediate connection to real life in a specific geographical area where you have these characteristic sensory elements of a place where you are living your everyday real life and how these act as a reminder that life will always go on for better or for worse... very poignant segue into When You Left Me

[alvinrowx]

I was a little disappointed by Avey's songwriting these last 5 years. But Eucalyptus surpasses all my expectations. It's still "crazy" like all Avey's works, but much more focused and channeled by emotions than on the last two animal collective albums and Enter the slasher house.
Best thing he has been involved in since Down There, imo.

[Dallou]

Jackson 5 is a vampire weekend song

[TetsuoUnderFire]

I really want to get some good L and listen to Dr aw One for J on repeat.

[hatredcopter]

roark wrote:

Boat Race is incredible

[doggyinacoma]

oh gee i know i'm late to the game but could some one pm me the herbalicious vibe please?? thanks:)

[Andrew_VB]

Hellomark wrote:

AND THE SUN DRENCHED DAUGHTER
SPIED THE OTTER

Also all of the pedal steel on this album is incredibly beautiful, well done Susan Alcorn. Some
Parts feel like the closest thing we'll get to an Avey country album and I love it.

he and angel were together for 6 or 7 years? way longer than i realized

[Ethmin]

Damn Dave. That last thing about explaining to Angel what the last song means. Fucked me
Up.