Collected Animals • Bridge to Quiet EP

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Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2020 3:35 pm

aaand the rainn suddenly is gone againn

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2020 4:03 pm

Is it just me hearing Grateful Dead a little in Rain In Cups? Also Eno-era Bowie in the title track. Piggy Knows is my early favorite but this sounds like another winner of an EP for them!

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2020 4:19 pm

do you think we'll see this EP on streaming services at some point?

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2020 4:58 pm

this EP is golden.

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2020 4:58 pm

only on rain in cups but it rules

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2020 4:59 pm

This is really great
The blurb mentioning these started as improv pieces had me expecting some solid ambient stuff like tangy reef but really if they hadn't mentioned it I never would've guessed anything different from their usual process

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2020 5:07 pm

jesus christ this shit is goooood
piggy knows , my god

i can feel the jam vibe
improvising and editing/mixing down is so much fun

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2020 5:13 pm

this shit is pretty kosmische

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2020 5:28 pm

sux-bier passage didn't really grab me on the first listen but the other three songs were all great. really nice ep!!

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2020 5:30 pm

third song dips into deep kluster/early tangerine dream places

last song is sweet
good shit!!!
i feel like we've been in a certain golden age for a few years now

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:16 pm

so glad to hear avey and panda singing together again

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:19 pm

Rain in Cups really goes. I was stoned a few months back and was imaging them releasing a song about rain, called 'Rains Endlessly'. This is pretty dang close. It sounds really submerged, the percussion even sounds 'wet'. Seems to have been heavily informed by the Tangerine Reef sessions.

Piggy is a classic Ac tune. It's so goofy and catchy and like nothing they've done before. Really bouncy beat. Glad to add the pig to the list of animals they've referenced. A worthy addition.

Second half of the EP is really reminding me of the tail-end of Oddsac. Distorted, hazy, fucked up vocals, formless until coalescing into a high-energy bop. Vocal trade offs are sweet (try it on!)

Damn though when it comes to EPs they rarely miss hot damn

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:32 pm

Animal Collective coming thru

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:41 pm

This is so good and quite a nice surprise! Rain in Cups is pretty dark, cathartic and emotional, I really love it! Piggy knows is just good ol' fun wacky Animal Collective! The other two songs are nice also, need to listen to them more. I wonder if they will play any of these live when they get back out on the road? I feel like Piggy Knows especially would be such a bombastic fun track live!

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:42 pm

Piggy feels like the same type of jam as that Deak song with the upright bass sample from the Music Box set

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:52 pm

Peanut Butter Hearts? Damn man I've forgotten about those. Tri Kid, Magicians from Baltimore... They're sitting on so much material rn

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2020 7:58 pm

Bridge to Quiet kinda feels reminiscent of Talking Heads - Burning Down the House to me.

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2020 8:55 pm

So is this reworked versions of any songs we know?

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 03, 2020 9:46 pm

the boys are back

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2020 12:55 am

i'm guessing piggy knows materialized out of a jam sesh for cherokee cus the drums sound kinda similar and it has a similarly upbeat vibe

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2020 12:59 am

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2020 1:23 am

This is a great release. Have only listened once so far but it grabbed me on the first listen. From the description I was expecting some ambient background music and this really surprised me. Super happy for these guys!

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2020 1:29 am

I really feel like this isn't what I was expecting after hearing the 2019 tour material, it's really good though. the only thing I miss is more panda vocals. I kept waiting for his voice to cut through and take it to another level and it never happened except for that little bit in the title track. This has me so excited for more new material from the boys. they are sitting on quite a back catalog of unrecorded material at this point.

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2020 1:59 am

Piggy Knows really reminds me of the pan flute section of Graze once it gets going.

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2020 2:01 am

meysell wrote:

getting BIG Jane vibes from the title track? "Slipping Away" specifically

I heard it, too.
I’m thankful to get this batch of new-to-me tunes from them today.

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2020 4:05 am

Noah is saying "right on" in the title track, right?

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2020 4:12 am

I thought it was "try it on" but who knows.

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2020 5:23 am

This is so far removed from anything they've done recently and I love it. It's nice to hear those long transitions that usually get cut on the studio version make it on the ep. Each track takes time to sprawl and doesn't blow it's load immediately. Bridge to Quiet is the new Fall Be Kind

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2020 10:15 am

they are stretching again and it was about time

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2020 1:42 pm

Piggy goes!

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2020 2:18 pm

When that industrial metallic squealing beat comes in on Rain in a Cup with Avey's soft and somber vocals.....You know it's going to be a good ride. Loving the amount of sonic frequencies we're getting and how open and reverberated everything is. This is gonna be a good EP isn't it?

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2020 7:11 pm

i love the title track, but i just imagine panda being like “here’s me singing ‘try it on’ if that can fit somewhere.”

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2020 7:30 pm

Easily most essential Ep since FBK, and a similar meteorological sprawl. Rain and Bridge are the standouts to me. Rain in Cups builds and elevates Avey's recent songwriting habits into a full-band space. And especially the dubby techniques in Bridge feel like a genuinely new direction for the group, Panda's spectral background vocals appearing near the end just hit that sweet spot. I love ghosty Panda more than lead Panda.
Piggy is cool and absolutely slaps but also kind of the cringey "silly" side of the band that I don't always love. Sux-Bier feels like a Tangerine Reef bonus track, and another side of their recent output I am a bit tired of. Sounds like Avey taking a listless space-walk a bit too far from the capsule.
For an Avey-led, made-in-isolation "collage of jams" this release is stunning and I can't wait to have it on 12" (that art is SO cool!!)

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2020 7:40 pm

This definitely has Fall Be Kind + Tangerine Reef vibes.

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2020 8:01 pm

The mix and vibes remind me most of psycho actives but a little heartier. So very avey/geo heavy but then there's also deak guitar and sparse panda vocals so it's more of a full meal. In fact if you sequence this with psycho actives you get a pretty great full-lengthed set of jams.

Title track is def my fave. It feels like heavy dub reggea somehow. With the skronk of like certain Peter Gabriel songs. And piggies is strait up White Album style madness.

This is a great sampler to help tied us over until what I presume is an early 2021 full length of music box/fall '19 jams LP that will be their magnum opus honestly

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2020 9:35 pm

Sux-Bier Passage should have been fifteen minutes long

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2020 9:52 pm

Hellomark wrote:

Bridge to Quiet kinda feels reminiscent of Talking Heads - Burning Down the House to me.

Yes!

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2020 11:48 pm

these tracks are so good. i'd love to hear a dance mix of bridge to quiet

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 04, 2020 11:57 pm

dio wrote:

The mix and vibes remind me most of psycho actives but a little heartier. So very avey/geo heavy but then there's also deak guitar and sparse panda vocals so it's more of a full meal. In fact if you sequence this with psycho actives you get a pretty great full-lengthed set of jams.

Title track is def my fave. It feels like heavy dub reggea somehow. With the skronk of like certain Peter Gabriel songs. And piggies is strait up White Album style madness.

This is a great sampler to help tied us over until what I presume is an early 2021 full length of music box/fall '19 jams LP that will be their magnum opus honestly

Agreed about the sparse Panda vocals....but when he comes in, full force for the last half of Bridge.....chills

Post **Posted:** Sun Jul 05, 2020 12:33 am

I love this.

Maybe it's just me and my own narrative, but I felt like Painting With was the band's creative nadir (it's not a bad album, I liked it well enough, but it's very unambitious), and everything since has felt like the band trying out new things to regain their mojo: from the gentle folk and found sound of Meeting of the Waters, to the psychedelic-ambient explorations of Tangerine Reef, even to Avey's psych-pop Cows on Hourglass Pond— it was a scattershot approach, and one I enjoyed, but it wasn't clear where the band was going.

Bridge to Quiet, to me, feels like the culmination of these last few years; putting it all together in a single package. It's just this great, woozy psych that bounces all over the place in a satisfying fashion. "Piggy Knows" is an instant classic, but the standout to me is "Sux-Bier Passage"— as
IkoOvo said above I get some real kosmische vibes from it. If the next LP sounds like this I'll be ecstatic, but if it's not, then this EP is all the more special.