[Fovrodi]

did it just go black for anyone else?

[meys]

theyre playing 4'33" now nice

[lucasmoreira]

Fovrodi wrote:

did it just go black for anyone else?

[DILWeed]

pretty interesting what they're doing with the middle section of royal right now, not sure if I'm a fan though

[dio]

Lolll x3

[cody]

[dio]

It just HAD to being Deakins song, didn't it??

Back in time for fickle cycle outro lol. Fiiiiiine. Cmon buzzsaw return !

[tobinge]

didn't something like this happen during the centipede tour too? there was a big stream that just went kaput halfway through? what a bummer man...

['Worms']

i think this is the White Claw FanCam

[DILWeed]

fickle cycle now

[tobinge]

just in time to watch geo go absolutely ham on that keyboard lol

[dio]

Doesn't seem totally right timing wise, the stream must have been behind the whole time maybe? And now it caught up? Maybe the blackout went by faster than I realized

[speen]

is animal collective dad rock now?


....am I old?


also did anyone save the stream somehow

[dio]

You might be young if anything. This all rips. It was at it's most dad rock in 2012, the past chz shows (live at 930 etc)

[Stories and Games]

panda is totally slaughtering purple bottle jesus

(like in a good way i mean)

[dio]

Too soon ;_;.(not the song, it's over smdh)

[leaf_dwelling]

the full kit panda bear drumming was a real highlight of the night, the bass + drum groves are choice too.

kinda wish they burned 1/3 of their set with a massive defeat. totally hyped i got to watch that in real time.

[awesome]

HQ prester john was dope, hope someone recorded + will upload that


wonder if the crowd was into the new jams, hard to gauge from the stream

[dio]

Crowds always look dead on video but you just know there's some true spirits wilding out completely in the front the whole time. And everyone digs Purple Bottle

I like how enthusiastic every crows is when they when avey says "lotta new songs" somewhat apologetically

[rohcti]

Fvck I missed it

[hedgecore]

someone on the anco subreddit said they will upload their rip tonight

[coral lord]

Was there, crowd energy was lacking until prester John. That song flipped the script. Fickle Cycle and Purple Bottle were nuts.

All the new songs sound incredible btw, their transition into a more jammy rock band is a massive success imo

[roopn]

rip in the all recording thread from axeworld


In the flowers
Car Keys
Dragon Slayer
Soul Capturer
Unsolved Mysteries
No More Runnin
Prester John
Royal
Fickle Cycle
Purple Bottle

[Cooper]

Was there, did end up doing molly, luckily I was far back in the crowd so I wasn’t influenced into going completely wild because I could have lol. Their setup right is so fucking tight and strong. The simple rock context makes their music feel that much weirder. Downdown fucked me up. At one point aveys voice broke when he was screaming and he literally sounded like a little girl it was so amazing

Went to yaeji after, her set was incredible, she almost topped AC for me

[Strange_Clams]

Prester john fucking SHREDS!

[Cooper]

I realized last night that this is their first batch of songs with a kind of lo-if sensibility (at least song-writing-wise) since here comes the Indian. The rhythmic synth in the middle of soul capture really hammered that realization in for me, I feel like they haven’t worked with really simple and effective flourishes like that in forever (am I delusional?). I hope the album sounds as crunchy and dry as these live performances. Considering how close we are to release I think it might

[bullseye]

Stories and Games wrote:

panda is totally slaughtering purple bottle jesus

(like in a good way i mean)

Exactly what I thought when watching the stream, he completely kills it with a full kit!

Edit: Unfortunately, his playing on unsolved mysteries is a bit too laid back in comparison to the original version, I really miss the snare rolls in the new live version.

[ingenue]

“Dragon Slayer” is next level. WOW!

Wow Bob Wow! (For all you TP heads.)

[hybrination]

I feel weird watching this, have they changed, have I changed, have we all changed? I just can't get into this anymore and I can't place exactly why

[Stanshant]

ITF sounds a bit improved with this setup, I think it needs to be a full on electronic assault. Good way to get the shit munchers listening, perhaps. I like the guitar and vocals, still a great song.

Generally, I think AC with rock bass guitar and Rhodes piano is quite jarring. I could tell myself it's good because it's outside my AC comfort zone but it actually makes them sound more like a lot of other music, so I don't feel it's leading me anywhere new. I should say I don't have an issue with this, I'm happy for them to do what they like. Just that newness and fresh spaces is what I fell in love with.

Now three middle aged dudes in a row strumming guitar and harmonising 'Soul Capturer' while another old dude cranks a hurdy gurdy. Feels like a Grateful Dead fantasy. Again, I have no problem with this and I'm quite enjoying it. It just doesn't look like they are enormously. It's all very polite.

Unsolved Mysteries chorus is the best moment so far. I wish there was a lot more energy to the drumming, though. Generally. Not just here. It's a bit muzak. Reminds me of Percy Faith and his fucking orchestra.

NMR is just a great song and Dave sounds superb.

Prester John is way more like it for me. Sounds like Woodstock jam band but with some more inherent AC character and drive that you can't easily isolate. A brilliant AC song. Harmonies and lyrics are stellar. This is fucking great. Feels like a new AC space. Nice one. Get on that little whistle mate, love it.

Never listened to DownDownDownDown really but this is good as well. Thanks for your incompetence Pitch you absolute bell-ends. I'd like more Fickle Cycle energy and less Percy Faith, if I could summarise, but the set built up very nicely in fact. They're an evening band not a daytime band. Maybe it's that.

BBB yesssssss. Should have started with this and blown some nobs straight off. Still sound great. I guess Dave can still belt it, he just chooses to save it a bit more these days. Drums are ace, would love a bit more of this in the rest of the set.

Lots I'm looking forward to hearing on record. A performance which started a bit dull and went to some great places.

[roopn]

Whys purple bottle being called BBB?

[captainlunatic]

BBB is what they called it on the setlists back in the day

big big (heart)beat

[dio]

Stan wait til you hear the song called Defeat. I think you will likey very much

[Stanshant]

dio wrote:

Stan wait til you hear the song called Defeat. I think you will likey very much

I certainly do!

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I tried not to listen to it really over the last couple of years but probably the only one of the new songs I know well.

[dio]

Oh hell yeah. Imo it's only gotten better. To me, it, Prester John and Dragon Slayer are perfect songs. You seem unsure of Slayers tradition vibes tho...

[scrambledgreggs]

Stan my reaction to the set was the same as yours. The fact that purple bottle and the clip of fickle cycle that wasn’t blacked out had this insanely massive energy actually made the new songs sound much tamer than they should be. Don’t get me wrong I love a lot of the new material, and Prester John / beginning of DownDown had me genuinely excited here, but there was still such a contrast between their new stuff and old stuff in this set-up which had me wishing for more purple bottles instead

Still think the new album is gonna be incredible though. Just this show was a bit off

[dio]

I welcome y'all's opinions to be clear. Like Forreal, but shouldn't we welcome the more chilled out songs this era? The chillness is not what yal are protesting, but I fully want them to feel like they don't have to play a BBB or Bro Sport every few songs just to keep us hyped.

The new songs are fantastic to me, in general, and their vibes/tempos are varied and usually not aiming to be a big, mosh pit style freak out. Maybe they're missing that, but after the PW sets which often stayed in that zone (save for like.. the Daily Routine comedown or Bees.. already showed us, semi recently, a mostly uptempo party vibes set style.

Idk, I'm not even objecting to what your saying, and I continue to think 24/car keys verse sounds a lil wonky and sticks ourt given the polish of the rest of the set, but these songs just might tend toward being growers and/OR hit harder live than in recording

But people are in agreement that Prester is the first new one that really seems to get a response. I loooooove that every crowd seemingly applauds after Deakins solo "a little giving" line is sung and everything drops our for a sec.

We were begging for slower, more "patient" songs during PW era and here they are. Anyway, as yal were, I have no idea what I'm arguing if I am arguing anything lol. Just some thoughts . This discourse shit is interestng

[dio]

Old songs let them access a more generalized AC "energy" that some of their new songs might not quite have. And to me that's awesome... The thrill is seeing which ones they cherry pick to harness whatever energy they feel like they need to deliver that isn't in the new stuff.

It does beg the question: what of the new songs could or does deliver that?

Maybe nothing this round? Bolder (we go back) and the end of (older) Cherokee seem like they could but those weren't played here. And both have honestly sorta mellowed. So who knows. I love these kinda mid-energy, jammy, rock core songs. For lack of a better term lol, idk how to describe them well. but I love em!

[dio]

A lot of newer stuff like Prester, Royal and Defeat esp seem to be going more for an emotional hit than a hype, BBB or Bro Sport style energy blast. I lov the balance..

[Stanshant]

Without wanting to come across as particularly critical of their direction here, I don't have any issue with the easier pace and space in these songs. It's something I've missed from their music for over a decade. It's more that the instrumentation and 'sound profile' is pretty standard stuff which I've heard elsewhere many times over the last forty years, and it lacks AC personality at times, for me. They've got some great songs in this set, though, and I'm sure they'll give the somewhat noodling mid-tempo plodders more character in the studio.

As for your follow up posts, I think BBB hits harder than any of these emotionally and in terms of the unique AC energy. I don't think it's an either/or. And to go back to the more chill spacious earlier stuff, something like Loch Raven or Bees or Seal Eyeing has a real feverishness, even if the instrumentation is very sparse. That's partly what I love about them. There's this energy that exists in the spaces, and they also hit hard emotionally.

Anyway, I'm not trying to say I don't even like this new stuff, I really have enjoyed what I've heard, some of it is brilliant and I'm really looking forward to the records. I'm just saying that for me, it's showing a different aspect to the band's personality which is surprisingly traditional.