Collected Animals • "Isn't It Now?" - aka will Defeat be on the album???

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Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 4:56 pm

NOW can we rename the thread lol

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 4:57 pm

LP after Time Skiffs (new LP number 2 [Isn’t It Now? {Coming soon!}])

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:01 pm

RIP to Time Skiffs 2, Sea of Light, Crack Open Another Beer, etc

love the album art and especially the color palette. perfect fall atmosphere

insane sequencing lmao. pleasantly surprised and very excited to hear what it sounds like — i wonder what sort of transitions we will hear, if any. defeat into gem & i is bold as hell, especially if gem just hits the ground running

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:04 pm

the last note of Broke is pretty similar to the first notes of Magicians -- wonder if there's going to be any transition there......

i can't believe they put Genies, Magicians and Defeat all within the first 5 songs

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:08 pm

blindmowing wrote:

i can't believe they put Genies, Magicians and Defeat all within the first 5 songs

yeah honestly my only real gripe with the tracklist is that they didn't spread these out more. I feel like one of the shining characteristics of this album is the proggy-ness and this kind of undermines that

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:11 pm

Ew, yucky construction paper rectangles! Eh guess that'll grow and the colors seem about right. Kinda gross tho! Like it's a dank color scheme to me, seems dusty like I can smell the moth balls but that's probably the point.

Tracklist is cool and a little wild. Every part of the tracklist or vinyl side you focus on just seems so so strong. Maybe Clubs will suck but yeah I hope it's about golf, big golfer here

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:14 pm

All the Clubs Are Broken...

AtCAB...

All the Cops are Bastards... let's fuckign goo

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:19 pm

Great cover. I don't know the songs well enough to know if the tracklisting is any good but looking forward to it.

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:20 pm

okay can somebody make a best-of these songs, in this order, and upload it somewhere so I can download and listen to on my way home from work today pllllsssssssssssss

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:20 pm

finally! it feels like it's been a lifetime waiting for this. love the artwork honestly and the tracklisting is nothing I would have guessed. although I am glad defeat stands as the center piece like it deserves. now I just need that release date confirmed and we can all settle into still obsessively anticipating in this forum until then

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:22 pm

Hell yes. Defeat right in the middle is actually perfect. Kings Walk is still a really bleak closer and I think it’s an incredible choice. Nicest surprise after putting Magicians and Defeat back-to-back.

Though I kind of had a heart attack because I saw the post before coming here and thought the tracklist was only the bottom corner. That would’ve been the weirdest album ever

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:22 pm

evan6032 wrote:

now I just need that release date confirmed and we can all settle into still obsessively anticipating in this forum until then

am i a crazed psychotic fan or is it insane for avey to just lowkey drop the cover and tracklist with no release date? that's gotta come NO LATER than with the single on wednesday, right? like if not sooner? right?

:negative:

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:24 pm

yeah this continues to be a bizarre rollout but preorder etc is 100% going up with the single on wednesday

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:24 pm

I don’t know why, but I’m getting Tangerine Reef vibes from the cover art and I’m loving it so much

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:28 pm

tdegenaro wrote:

evan6032 wrote:
now I just need that release date confirmed and we can all settle into still obsessively anticipating in this forum until then

am i a crazed psychotic fan or is it insane for avey to just lowkey drop the cover and tracklist with no release date? that's gotta come NO LATER than with the single on wednesday, right? like if not sooner? right?

No you're right here the promo for this thing is crazy. For as much as we hate on domino here it feels like they have no oversight on AC promo. Like the IG story tease happened at 9:30pm on a Saturday whats happening there

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:29 pm

dio wrote:

Ew, yucky construction paper rectangles! Eh guess that'll grow and the colors seem about right. Kinda gross tho! Like it's a dank color scheme to me, seems dusty like I can smell the moth balls but that's probably the point.

Agreed. Hate to be contrarian but I don't like it lol, Time Skiffs art is way better

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:29 pm

tdegenaro wrote:

okay can somebody make a best-of these songs, in this order, and upload it somewhere so I can download and listen to on my way home from work today pllllsssssssssssss

Yo, I got you, check DMs in a minute. Just so you know it's all the Blast Session versions.

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:37 pm

I think it’s the band taking a little control of promo in exchange for Domino waiting this long. Seems like an Avey thing to do to at least throw a trail of breadcrumbs out for fans

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:38 pm

hell yeah I can smell this cover awesome. I'm so glad Defeat is side C, and very interesting D side. Super fucking gooped for Wednesday

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:42 pm

First the Zodiac is broke, now All the Clubs are too? This world is getting cooked

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:42 pm

Back cover looks sooo good, I like it a little more than the front cover

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:43 pm

Did we ever find out if AtCAB is a panda or Avey led song?

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:44 pm

with the medieval village-green comparison i would bet avey

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:45 pm

how do people know any info at all about AtCAB?

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:46 pm

Insider info

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:48 pm

There is a gnomic magician man in that front cover. He wears a pointy hat.

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:52 pm

Alcohol wrote:

There is a gnomic magician man in that front cover. He wears a pointy hat.

and i love that there are 4 pieces of colored paper as his face, maybe signifying the 4 members?

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:53 pm

Alcohol wrote:

There is a gnomic magician man in that front cover. He wears a pointy hat.

Wow, ur 100% right. I absolutely love that.

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:55 pm

good catch, Alcohol, hadn't noticed the hat

when i heard AC was recording live to tape, this cover is exactly what i pictured the carpet of the recording studio looking like

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 5:57 pm

Also let's go Panda track 2 gang we are eating 3 albums in a row

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 6:02 pm

Whaaaaaaaaaat the almighty fuuuuuuuuuuuuck

1. Yes, rollout has been bonkers and I love it. Sending people Defeat, the Isn't it Now website, the leaves etc. Just nuts and perfect. They must be reading the forum, there's no question. Sup Deak.

2. Artwork is lovely I think and ties in really well with Skiffs but like... a gloomy version, which is perfect given the release date and tracklist.

3. The tracklist is just... truly bizarre. Like everything is in its wrong place. King's is a whack ass closer and having Magicians and Defeat back to back with Genie's second is just... fuckin WHAT?? Also feels like they're just slopping Gem, Stride, (new track great name) and King's after the big daddy headliners.

However.

I trust the process and I don't think there's a single AC album that I'd have sequenced the way they did, yet somehow they work out sooooo bring it on. Fuck it, Magician's>Defeat best one two punch in the history of ever.

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 6:03 pm

mildew_on_rice wrote:

Alcohol wrote:
There is a gnomic magician man in that front cover. He wears a pointy hat.

and i love that there are 4 pieces of colored paper as his face, maybe signifying the 4 members?

Bet you’re right. “… mischievous machine elves… whose marvelous singing makes intricate toys out of the air…” Are those square patches around him McKenna’s “jeweled self-dribbling basketballs”?

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 6:05 pm

Oh wow damn Magicians into Defeat is absolutely going to haunt. Really hope we get to appreciate this album for the full Halloween season.

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 6:06 pm

tay's tee games wrote:

Whaaaaaaaaaat the almighty fuuuuuuuuuuuuck

1. Yes, rollout has been bonkers and I love it. Sending people Defeat, the Isn't it Now website, the leaves etc. Just nuts and perfect. They must be reading the forum, there's no question. Sup Deak.

2. Artwork is lovely I think and ties in really well with Skiffs but like... a gloomy version, which is perfect given the release date and tracklist.

3. The tracklist is just... truly bizarre. Like everything is in its wrong place. King's is a whack ass closer and having Magicians and Defeat back to back with Genie's second is just... fuckin WHAT?? Also feels like they're just slopping Gem, Stride, (new track great name) and King's after the big daddy headliners.

However.

I trust the process and I don't think there's a single AC album that I'd have sequenced the way they did, yet somehow they work out sooooo bring it on. Fuck it, Magician's>Defeat best one two punch in the history of ever.

If you don’t think Stride is a big daddy headliner I have to believe you haven’t experienced it live because it’s just as huge as the others

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 6:07 pm

i got a weird postcard that just had the words "isn't it now?" in the nando's font and i thought nando's was doing some weird ad.

i don't love the font but i do like nando's

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 6:09 pm

I love the cover but the teal eyes irk me. they're the only thing on the cover that are that color. shoulda been red or something

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 6:11 pm

Alcohol wrote:

mildew_on_rice wrote:
Alcohol wrote:
There is a gnomic magician man in that front cover. He wears a pointy hat.

and i love that there are 4 pieces of colored paper as his face, maybe signifying the 4 members?

Bet you’re right. “… mischievous machine elves… whose marvelous singing makes intricate toys out of the air…” Are those square patches around him McKenna’s “jeweled self-dribbling basketballs”?

Brings a different meaning to "Isn't it Now"

I always thought Time Skiffs was supposed to look like blotters on a related note, but this one isnt as druggy to me, way more like the tablecloth my grandma used to put out on Halloween. Time Skiffs, PW, CHz, SJ and MPP all have this more adult feeling to them that I think the album cover conveys, whereas I feel like this is swinging me into childlike memories of a Halloween I had as a dream as a kid, feels in line with Sung Tongs, Feels, OG Spirit, Ark, and Danse in that way.

Also MPP, Time Skiffs, and Feels are my favorite art by them in no order, and this one might swing up there. I like the turquoise-- very interesting choice, but it adds a real depth of juxtaposition and foreboding. Skiffs was really, like, in your face kinda cartoony, absurd and directed towards Americana, and the kinda warmth comes through the details, but I feel like the inverse here. The overwhelming feel is warmth and nostalgia, even if it is a lil spooky and overwhelming, but underneath it all there's this sort of battle going on in a way... an adult whose jaded gaze is trying to return to that Dreamland... yeah they swung out the park having art this excellent again

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 6:11 pm

Dusty wrote:

tay's tee games wrote:
Whaaaaaaaaaat the almighty fuuuuuuuuuuuuck

1. Yes, rollout has been bonkers and I love it. Sending people Defeat, the Isn't it Now website, the leaves etc. Just nuts and perfect. They must be reading the forum, there's no question. Sup Deak.

2. Artwork is lovely I think and ties in really well with Skiffs but like... a gloomy version, which is perfect given the release date and tracklist.

3. The tracklist is just... truly bizarre. Like everything is in its wrong place. King's is a whack ass closer and having Magicians and Defeat back to back with Genie's second is just... fuckin WHAT?? Also feels like they're just slopping Gem, Stride, (new track great name) and King's after the big daddy headliners.

However.

I trust the process and I don't think there's a single AC album that I'd have sequenced the way they did, yet somehow they work out sooooo bring it on. Fuck it, Magician's>Defeat best one two punch in the history of ever.

If you don’t think Stride is a big daddy headliner I have to believe you haven’t experienced it live because it’s just as huge as the others

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Stride and (seemingly unlike a lot of folks here) King's, plus the Panda joints. But when I say big daddy headliners I mean the long boss battles.

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 6:12 pm

Jam wrote:

This sounds like a joke but I have a real prediction that Soul Capture will be the single tied to the album announcement and there will be a music video to introduce fans to the Soul Capturer character as Domino’s first pitch at a sort of Grateful Dead style mascot for the band

Alcohol wrote:

There is a gnomic magician man in that front cover. He wears a pointy hat.

it’s happening

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2023 6:12 pm

what a momentous day

top 5 AC cover

weird af track order, but when split into 4 sides has perfect diversity/flow within each chapter