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Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 3:13 pm

yeah also got a dispatch for saturday. Domino always pulls this, i wish they’d ship on time more often

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 3:14 pm

oliveboy wrote:

speen wrote:
I love what they did with the breakdown moment in cherokee, the part where avey normally goes EEEEEE when they do it live. so cool. really trippy

Is this the "to you sweetheart aloha" sample someone mentioned earlier? Was curious how that bit would be on the record

That moment is so fucking transcendental. Makes you stop to realize, "woah, I'm actually like not in another world" then it sucks you back in. The start/stop nature of some of these songs gives me Native Belle/Too Soon vibes.

Also I ordered off Bandcamp and supposedly it won't even ship til next week. So ya don't complain too hard ladies n gents

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 3:18 pm

My digital copy will simply arrive into my account at the stroke of midnight. Don't even need a dusty old clunky ass record player to listen

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 3:26 pm

Out there looking for a boost and trying to catch up on 15+ pages of this thread after being gone over the weekend. Would appreciate whatever good split is floating around out there. Thanks!

Edit: Got it and giving it a listen right now! Thanks for giving me what Domino can't -- My pre-order hasn't even left the station yet.

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 3:38 pm

TetsuoUnderFire wrote:

coral lord wrote:
order dispatched from domino, projected to be here on saturday. what is the point of preordering if they can't get it here on time? very annoying tbh

Mine hasn't even dispatched. Where are you that it isn't coming until Saturday? I guess they excuse not being on time because they email you a digital download? Really annoying though. I am trying to blast off with some Special K for my listening experience

i'm near boston

hell when i was in san diego i would often get them 4-5 days after release so this is an improvement on that at least

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 3:56 pm

coral lord wrote:

order dispatched from domino, projected to be here on saturday. what is the point of preordering if they can't get it here on time? very annoying tbh

yuup, same. and i'm like ten minutes from the dispatch and i gotta watch ts go two states away before coming back to detriot.

well, i said last night if it wasn't going to be here by friday i'd check the bird so can someone pls boost me

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 4:00 pm

Really bummed mine hasn't dispatched yet, pretty sure I pre-ordered the day it went up...

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 4:06 pm

domino blows ass in many, many ways.

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 4:11 pm

Vinyl projected to arrive Saturday as well

I hate you Domino, will definitely be listening to a digital freebird ASAP

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 4:23 pm

does avey say “a pocket full of roofies” in cherokee?

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 4:26 pm

A boost would be amazing! Can someone please pm? Cant wait yall

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 4:27 pm

awesome wrote:

does avey say “a pocket full of roofies” in cherokee?

100%

Spoiler: show

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 4:46 pm

BORCHENKO?? wrote:

Juan wrote:
KOPped the last record at Queen west!!! No record player though

I'm literally on my way there right now

I have a record player

Why would you do this

this is the funniest interaction ive ever seen on this site

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 4:50 pm

CAR KEYS OMGGGGG NOAH

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 4:50 pm

Link me someone? Pleaaassse! Thanks!

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 4:54 pm

I really cant believe how fucking good Car Keys is. I knew theyd kill it in the studio but holy shit that outro? Some of their best work in ages. I really cant believe the quality of this album so many years after their "golden era". They truly are gods

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 4:57 pm

I might cry

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:08 pm

Loud and Quiet review... https://www.loudandquiet.com/reviews/an ... me-skiffs/

oof. doesn't say too much about the music itself just talks about how they're trying to relive their glory days. also describes R&D as "The War on Drugs at the bottom of a wishing well" which... ugh

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:10 pm

featured in ~the new yorker~

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022 ... ge-of-time

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:11 pm

Not going to read that L&Q review but that says more about the reviewer than the music

If they were trying to relive their "glory days" they'd just put drops in everything, fuck off

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:38 pm

more reviews (from pubs i haven't heard of)....

now then magazine: https://nowthenmagazine.com/record-revi ... ime-skiffs

riff magazine: https://riffmagazine.com/album-reviews/ ... me-skiffs/

also, a convo between l'rain and avey: https://www.talkhouse.com/avey-tare-and ... intuition/

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:39 pm

"A succession of EPs and solo projects vividly plugged the gaps of our impatience, while charitable ‘audio-visual’ releases oozed from Baltimore’s psychedelic sewage systems, as if philanthropy was their rationale for making less interesting music"

The fuck? What a piece of shit. God forbid musicians actually care about something and apply their art towards something beyond music criticism. Jesus what a joke

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:46 pm

nothingmaster wrote:

"A succession of EPs and solo projects vividly plugged the gaps of our impatience, while charitable ‘audio-visual’ releases oozed from Baltimore’s psychedelic sewage systems, as if philanthropy was their rationale for making less interesting music"

The fuck? What a piece of shit. God forbid musicians actually care about something and apply their art towards something beyond music criticism. Jesus what a joke

Music journalism is garbage these days.

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:48 pm

when would we expect a p4k review? release day?

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:48 pm

Avey turned himself into a funko pop

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:50 pm

nothingmaster wrote:

"A succession of EPs and solo projects vividly plugged the gaps of our impatience, while charitable ‘audio-visual’ releases oozed from Baltimore’s psychedelic sewage systems, as if philanthropy was their rationale for making less interesting music"

The fuck? What a piece of shit. God forbid musicians actually care about something and apply their art towards something beyond music criticism. Jesus what a joke

wow I glazed over that part when I read it, what a complete shitbag

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:51 pm

zarya wrote:

when would we expect a p4k review? release day?

probably next week, doubt they'll prioritize it this release day. maybe a short blurb will get into their "new releases to listen to this week" on Friday if we're lucky

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:53 pm

scrambledgreggs wrote:

zarya wrote:
when would we expect a p4k review? release day?

probably next week, doubt they'll prioritize it this release day. maybe a short blurb will get into their "new releases to listen to this week" on Friday if we're lucky

hmmm idk i'd bet on friday or earlier

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:55 pm

Haha I quite like reading the scathing reviews, there's always a few, especially from our side of the pond. Recall the Quietus' one for Painting With being incredibly vitriolic

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 5:59 pm

Can you even imagine what TS2 will sound like if this is the quality of remotely recorded material?

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 6:03 pm

What's the quality of the freebird? 128?

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 6:04 pm

wrote:

There was a period of time where we were using in-ear monitors, and I just totally experienced, a lot of nights, a displacement. It didn’t really even matter where I was, because the nature of the monitoring system was just taking me out of the actual real environment that I was in. I had a really hard time with it.

This quote from the talkhouse piece is super interesting to me. I was at the govball show they cut short in the middle of WWIWS and Avey walked off stage.

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 6:05 pm

Hash wrote:

What's the quality of the freebird? 128?

320

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 6:07 pm

Hash wrote:

What's the quality of the freebird? 128?

its 320 but a vinyl rip and I can hear the exact amount of dust I need to wipe off of the needle to make it sound good.

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 6:15 pm

Hahaha, damn dio!

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 6:19 pm

sorry lol. I got 4 nights of re-absataining ahead of me. It's fine.

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 6:28 pm

Anybody else get their dispatch email today?

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 6:35 pm

They got announced for this fest in Utah today. Look like you west coasters are in for a good spring

https://www.stereogum.com/2174602/salt- ... more/news/

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 6:36 pm

yeah the dust is pretty apparent at times. it's just gonna make the first quality listen sound even better!

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2022 6:39 pm

to many people, the idea of a new animal collective album in 2022 is basically a non-starter. context will outweigh text, the album will sound at least a little like tired nostalgia to them, and i think it's best to just accept that that's normal and okay. of course if you're an ac fanatic then you're gonna assess time skiffs totally on its own terms as a self-contained work, but if you're not then you're not, and i think it's a little silly to be surprised and indignant about that. evaluating an album based on its context—both within the artist's overall career and within the broader artistic culture surrounding it—is what good music criticism looks like.