Collected Animals • Proto-AC: "this band/song sounds like Animal Collective"

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Post **Posted:** Sun Mar 04, 2018 5:35 pm

maybe i'm going a little crazy but i'm definitely hearing some feels drumming/guitar

Post **Posted:** Sun Mar 11, 2018 7:24 am

Saw some members throwing the XTC out. So I had to contribute because to me XTC is the only band that hold's a candle to AC.

To my ears the ending of this song is nearly the same as the end of ODDSAC but crazier.

Post **Posted:** Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:06 am

I watched these a lot as a kid. Early AC always reminded me of them

Post **Posted:** Wed Mar 14, 2018 5:30 pm

^Man, that second video goes hard at 3:18

Post **Posted:** Mon Apr 30, 2018 1:08 am

not much else about the band, but the verses here sound a whole lot like avey's songwriting, that sort of shifty thing where phrases don't end quite right. the meter helps of course

Post **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2018 10:41 am

Nice! They’re a band mentioned in the PP liner notes, I guess I don’t know it half as well as I thought. Vinyl Me also put that song in their mix dedicated to the PP influencers. I remember it stuck out as particularly good.

Zeek Sheck... is giving me big time early AC/ODDSAC vibes.

It’s blowing me away

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2018 8:07 pm

I think Geo has played Simon Finn on his radio show before but this one is especially Tong-like:

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2018 8:33 pm

Yeah Geo played "Jerusalem" by him on an O'Brien System episode.

Avey's also a fan, he put Pass the Distance reissue on his 2001 favorites list when he was at Other Music

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2018 8:40 pm

Fovrodi wrote:

Avey's also a fan, he put Pass the Distance reissue on his 2001 favorites list when he was at Other Music

ooh is there a list of what else he put there? I'm intrigued

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2018 8:45 pm

DAVID PORTNER (nyc) (2000)

* Quasimoto - The Unseen
* Vladislav Delay - Multila
* Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day reissue
* Outkast - Stankonia
* Black Dice - s/t
* Dettinger - Oasis
* Jay-Z - The Life and Times of Sean Carter Vol. 3
* Eyvind Kang - Story of Iceland
* Luomo -Vocalcity
* Broadcast - The Noise Made By People

David Portner (OM NYC) (2001)
1. Various Artists Bosavi Rainforest Music (Smithsonian Folkways)
2. Bjork Vespertine (Elektra)
3. Cannibal Ox Cold Vein (Def Jux)
4. Gerald Hawk King of the River Canoe (Abduction)
5. Takehisa Kosugi Catch Wave reissue (Drone Syndicate, Sweden)
6. Roy Harper Stormcock reissue (Science Friction, UK)
7. Lee Perry Born in the Sky (Motion, UK)
8. Basement Jaxx Rooty (Astralwerks)
9. Terry Riley You're Nogood reissue (Cortical Foundation)
10. Simon Finn Pass the Distance reissue (Mushroom)

Noah Lennox (OM NYC) (2001)
Daft Punk Discovery (Virgin)
John Morton Outlier (Innova)
Black Dice Peace in the Valley (31G)
Spacek Curvatia (Island, UK)
Divine Comedy Regeneration (Nettwerk)
Kawabata & Youngs s/t (VHF)
Supersilent 5 (Rune Grammofon, Norway)
Phonophani Genetic Engineering (Rune Grammofon, Norway)
Air 10000 Hz Legend (Astralwerks)
Ellen Allien Flieg Mit mix (Bpitch Control, Germany)

Noah Lennox (OM NYC) (2002)
Theorem THX "Experiments in Synchronicity" (Minus)
Thomas and Richard Frost "Visualize" reissue (Revola)
Donna Regina "Northern Classic" (Karaoke Kalk)
Jay-Jay Johansen "Antenna" (RCA UK)
Lawrence "Lawrence" (Ladomat)
Durutti Column "Return of the Sporadic Recordings" reissue (Kooky)
Kaito "Special Life" (Kompakt)
Coldplay "A Rush of Blood to the Head" (Capitol)
Maja Ratkje "Voice" (Rune Grammafon)
Youngsbower "Relayer" (VHF)

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2018 8:50 pm

Yeah those lists are a goldmine just like their mixes n stuff. Love that Panda put Coldplay lol
Also sweet to see Vespertine on there, not that I wouldn't expect them to like Bjork I guess. The ending of "Undo" with the harp always reminds me of Loch Raven

Post **Posted:** Mon Aug 20, 2018 6:31 pm

Tower Recordings - "Population One" is giving me Campfire Songs vibes, I can easily imagine Avey and Panda singing in that style over it:

Post **Posted:** Mon Aug 27, 2018 3:03 pm

campfire songs

Post **Posted:** Fri Aug 31, 2018 12:25 am

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6szo2-UYME&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]

Post **Posted:** Sat Sep 01, 2018 12:18 am

i know someone else posted something by the same artist and that geo had a song by him in his chz mix but....

total person pitch vibes. or at least something panda would have sampled. groovy percussion, multiple sections, breezy vocals... been playing this on loop for the past day.

Post **Posted:** Wed Sep 05, 2018 1:39 pm

Post **Posted:** Wed Sep 05, 2018 5:22 pm

LeadHat wrote:

i know someone else posted something by the same artist and that geo had a song by him in his chz mix but....

total person pitch vibes. or at least something panda would have sampled. groovy percussion, multiple sections, breezy vocals... been playing this on loop for the past day.

those opening notes have to be the inspiration for Beck's "Wow", if it's not a direct sample

Post **Posted:** Tue Sep 18, 2018 5:45 pm

ppl be loving this ish rn and its literally animal collective

Post **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2018 11:55 pm

The interplay of the two vocal parts on this is very AC.

Post **Posted:** Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:24 am

May be out of the loop here but has anybody else noticed this track is pretty damn close to Bees? Like as in it almost pretty much is?

Post **Posted:** Fri Jan 18, 2019 2:15 pm

Yeah I can see some similarities, Bees still seems fairly different from that but it's got similar bits in the melody

Post **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2019 3:10 pm

sounds pretty much exactly like AC

Post **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2019 3:49 pm

yeah that song is straight up Animal Collective, the way he sings and the fx on his voice sounds exactly like Avey. Had to be an inspiration

Post **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2019 6:39 pm

Yeah that's pretty much exactly like some of the vocals on ODDSAC and Down There.

Here's "Space Lion", which reminds me a lot of Animal Collective near the middle. (Start at 2:15)

Post **Posted:** Fri Feb 08, 2019 7:05 pm

more contemporary than proto but this song by The Chap reminds me so much of visiting friends:

Post **Posted:** Tue Jul 30, 2019 3:33 pm

this sounds like freakin Jane

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 01, 2019 7:11 am

Nice! I really like that. Also reminded me of Gas in places.

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 01, 2019 5:52 pm

Only heard ten minutes but that was good. Reminded me of Polmo Polpo album "Like Hearts Swelling". Sky Histoire was sampled in live Guys Eyes.

Post **Posted:** Mon Sep 02, 2019 5:05 pm

saw deakin at the "this is not this heat" show in brooklyn a few weeks ago and made me think about their music in context with anco.

feel like the use of noise/silence in this one is reminiscent of native belle/hey light

Post **Posted:** Fri Sep 13, 2019 3:59 am

this song reminds me a lot of Avey

Post **Posted:** Sat Sep 14, 2019 3:27 pm

could easily be a deakin tune, even kinda sounds like his voice.

Post **Posted:** Thu Sep 19, 2019 11:17 pm

fuk this song is good. what album is that off?

Post **Posted:** Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:02 am

Vision Songs vol 1, it’s my current obsession. Whole album is full of songs that are just as great as that one

Post **Posted:** Fri Sep 20, 2019 1:49 pm

oh yeah deakin for sure

Post **Posted:** Thu Jan 16, 2020 3:07 pm

bobby brown has been on some AC-related mixes but i've never heard him don't think. the band gets a shoutout in the copy for LITA's vinyl reissue of this album calling it “a true original, he has been a huge influence on many of us that play music.” bunch of homemade instruments

deakin vibes? maybe avey

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:31 pm

Great contribution to the thread! Yeah I think they mentioned an album of his at the end of this interview (annoyingly can't scrub in the archive).

https://web.archive.org/web/20071013173 ... .php?id=14

Feels more in deak territory but def some avey in there too.

Post **Posted:** Wed Mar 11, 2020 4:55 pm

hi friends!
I don't know if that's the right section to post it (apologies if not)
I wrote a 2-part song with my brother inspired by Sung Tongs era Anco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk--RpPTHWE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHZpFkxbJUo

maybe some of you will like them? putting our IG if you dig it: https://www.instagram.com/persica3music/

thank you so much for listening anco fam xxxxx - love

Post **Posted:** Sat Apr 11, 2020 6:46 am

theres something about this song that ive always found Centipede-Hz-like

i think it's the chord progressions around the chorus. i dont know

Post **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2020 12:46 am

Big time MPP/PP vibes happening here

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD2L8I1k0HM&list=PLEz1gHYge0bzgdRwbTf-ZPFSVhE18Ok1d[/youtube]

Post **Posted:** Wed May 13, 2020 6:19 pm

https://a-bit-warmer.bandcamp.com/album ... rangements

now that this thing is out for a while, I realized that it borders on ripping off the bass sounds from painting with a lot (e.g. on "what now?", probably due to the op-1), the mangled instrumentation from grim reaper (e.g. "dungeon crawlers") and is filled with auto-tuned vocals just like buoys.