[Bangs]

If I had a big high quality scanner at my disposal the first thing I would do is scan my copy of Feels and look at it.

[New Zealand]

lol'd at how redundant that sounds

[IkoOvo]

El Camino wrote:

I need to have Danse on at a pretty loud volume which generally means i don't listen to it when other people are around.

that's the way to go!

[jovian]

El Camino wrote:

I need to have Danse on at a pretty loud volume which generally means i don't listen to it when other people are around.

yes, danse and hollindagin both get much better when played loud through speakers vs headphones i've found. got to feel those frequency ranges

[archie]

hollindagain is super good through headphones!!!!?!?!?!?!

[New Zealand]

get better headphones?



I think it's more to do with the dynamic range; their first two albums especially have heaps of quieter/louder moments so it doesn't work listening while there's other noise going on around you

their later albums are more compressed so it's easier to get most of the music even if you're not listening on your own in silence

[Ethmin]

I'd just really like some newz from our boys. What happened to The Preakness Panda? Did you get married Dave? Deak, don't let me down.

[godzillalotus]

I've had this ominous feeling about Animal Collective lately. I'll bet they don't come out with any more albums. My guess is that these next shows they play will be their last. They put on a great show when I saw them last month, but Panda was barely involved. Same could be said of Avey, I guess, when compared with the exuberance he shows when he's playing with Slasher Flicks. It just seems like the wind is out of their sails right now. Maybe this has been discussed elsewhere on CA, but I haven't seen it. I hope it's not true, but it's a feeling I can't shake.

On a lighter note, Dave "Liked" one of my Instagram photos today. It had nothing to do with AC, and no hashtags or anything. I was stoked.

[New Zealand]

godzillalotus wrote:

I've had this ominous feeling about Animal Collective lately. I'll bet they don't come out with any more albums. My guess is that these next shows they play will be their last. They put on a great show when I saw them last month, but Panda was barely involved. Same could be said of Avey, I guess, when compared with the exuberance he shows when he's playing with Slasher Flicks. It just seems like the wind is out of their sails right now. Maybe this has been discussed elsewhere on CA, but I haven't seen it. I hope it's not true, but it's a feeling I can't shake.

[New Zealand]

remember when people thought they were breaking up in 2010 or something? lol

[godzillalotus]

I absolutely hope this feeling is wrong. Damn wrong. I hope they go all Rolling Stones style and make music into their 90's.

I read about a show they put on in Barcelona earlier his year, and there was conversation among the fans that there was a lot of weird tension and bad vibes coming off the band. This, coupled with all the cancellations and stuff, Panda's Daft Punk track and resulting mainstream exposure, Dave's side-project... I don't know. I'll keep positive, for sure, but it's an obnoxious little nagging feeling.

I wasn't here in 2010.

[New Zealand]

Maybe stick around a bit longer then and see. Dave and Noah have both had solo projects and side projects for basically the entirety of their career.

Panda Bear since 1998
Jane since 2002
Avey Tare since 2003 (he almost released Spirit as an Avey Tare album though)
Terrestrial Tones since 2004
Avey/Kría since 2005

Also I haven't really seen any mainstream Panda Bear exposure at all. Not that that would really change anything. "Hey guys so a lot of people know about me now, so obviously I'm leaving the band." ???

[geraldine]

strawberrymeat wrote:

dyland wrote:

My hard drive crashed and I lost all of my images. Does anyone know where/how to get hi-res images of all of their artwork? I'd love to have that weird elf with a axe/pipe/horn FBK art as my background right about now.

wait is that what the cover is??

I always assumed the cover was the shadow of Avey holding a guitar.

[jfw7]

godzillalotus wrote:

I absolutely hope this feeling is wrong. Damn wrong. I hope they go all Rolling Stones style and make music into their 90's.

lmao are you serious

[El Camino]

Most bands are at their most prolific early on in their career before spacing it out because things like families and marriages come along and slow things down. They have probably just decided to take things a little more slowly and do one thing at a time rather than having solo material and AC material running simultaneously like they have in the past.

[New Zealand]

jfw7 wrote:

godzillalotus wrote:

I absolutely hope this feeling is wrong. Damn wrong. I hope they go all Rolling Stones style and make music into their 90's.

lmao are you serious

haha, yeah I don't really want them to be like the Rolling Stones at their age, lol

[michael]

idk where to put this but Ezra Koenig reviewing Nothing Was The Same but kinda AnCo fan fiction [RIP] also

http://thetalkhouse.com/reviews/view/ezra-koenig-drake

[New Zealand]

what the hell was that



edit: oops, a "hilarious" review, according to Pitchfork. My mistake.

[StrangeClams]

Vampire Weekend are all hacks.

[michael]

sad that p4k didn't credit me w/ that scoop and i dnt appreciate you speaking about Vampire Weekend that way StrangeClams (esp. as i think Ezra is a good and funny writer)

[MFpotus]

Hashmane wrote:

what the hell was that



edit: oops, a "hilarious" review, according to Pitchfork. My mistake.

uhhh

this is ezra koeneg writing anco fanfic, why in the world would this anger you?

[New Zealand]

because it's dumb and I don't have any particular fondness for Ezra Koeneg so I don't feel obliged to find it funny

[dance avey dance]

michael wrote:

idk where to put this but Ezra Koenig reviewing Nothing Was The Same but kinda AnCo fan fiction [RIP] also

http://thetalkhouse.com/reviews/view/ezra-koenig-drake

Interesting read. Yeah that's Nathan from GGD who was killed by lightning a while ago :/

[jfw7]

i think nathan maddox died five years before that story supposedly took place so it's probably more likely to be "magical realism"

[geraldine]

Wasn't there a post on the old forum where AC talked about meeting Vampire Weekend?

[SpritBear]

Yes. That still exists. Somewhere in the "CA2 Q & A Archive" thread.

[someone]

dance avey dance wrote:

michael wrote:

idk where to put this but Ezra Koenig reviewing Nothing Was The Same but kinda AnCo fan fiction [RIP] also

http://thetalkhouse.com/reviews/view/ezra-koenig-drake

Interesting read. Yeah that's Nathan from GGD who was killed by lightning a while ago :/

wow! so that's the Nathan in Father Time. It's real, that's cool. And sad.

[New Zealand]

oh wow what

[SpritBear]

what? that's not real, is it? what?! panda in a frat?!!

[michael]

the name's a coincidence right? was Nathan Noah's college roommate?



i think ODDSAC gets overlooked, there are some good songs on there!! (beyond Mr. Fingers (though that is a v good song!!)) i like Screens a lot, Noah's lyrics are on point also; i was really into Kindle Song for a while there too. maybe i like Dave doing those more restrained jams (other examples: Working and D13 in the TTG stems)

[dance avey dance]

michael wrote:

the name's a coincidence right?

Why would it be a coincidence?

[Pan]

don't think it is a coincidence, they have been good friends with ggd since both bands' inceptions

[michael]

like jfw said, Nathan died in 2002, when Ezra was 18, so he probably never met him. it would be really weird and gross to write a fictional thing about a person that you didn't know that died tragically.

i am reading it again and he does say "Nathan, I’m sorry I didn’t give you more of a chance. You died WAY too young." which does make me look wrong (always a strong likelihood) but he follows that with "To my ex-wife, I will never stop loving you. My failure to save our marriage haunts me to this day. I hope you and our son are enjoying life in Atlanta." which makes me think/hope it is just silliness and an unfortunate coincidence

[Tico]

and how would i know if i was being walked like a dog?
and would i understand if i was being walked like a dog?

[Tico]

i think if rusty santos produced CHz and the cover was halloween/pumpkin themed i would think its a masterpiece

[New Zealand]

if AC even just co-produce their next album instead of having total production control I'm gonna be so mad

[Tico]

didnt they co-produce with ben allen? thats what is says on the honeycomb 7"

[archie]

yeah the vocals would be much louder if it wasn't coproduced wouldn't they

[Tico]

archie wrote:

yeah the vocals would be much louder if it wasn't coproduced wouldn't they

im pretty sure ben allen wanted the vocals louder than they did?

[archie]

yeah thats what i meant if ben allen produced it by himself it would have had very loud vocals for ac ya know