[El Camino]

I just can't really listen to this album anymore, it's pretty draining now. I was into it in the months following the release but i'm just not feeling it anymore.

Applesauce still rules though.

[terrestrialjane]

Yeah album will always rule ! Good era ...

[colin]

El Camino wrote:

I just can't really listen to this album anymore, it's pretty draining now. I was into it in the months following the release but i'm just not feeling it anymore.

Applesauce still rules though.

lol noob

[Calvin]

El Camino's a vet with spine
you watch your damn mouth

[AveySnare]

I think this might be my 3rd or 4th favorite (behind MPP, feels, STGSTV) but I looooooove it!!! so before I start getting sentimental over this album I will just say that I love deakin's voice on wideeyed, and monkey riches, father time, new town burnout (mew====-as I typoed it before I deleted, reentered), applesauce, moonjock, amanita all awesome jams!! notice a lot of alien noises in album, notice I did NOT just say today's supernatural, which seems to be album's "greatest hit" but in my opinion, Applesauce and Monkey riches are #1.

[Bangs]

Rosie Oh to Father Time would make a pretty good EP I feel. Listened to that stretch a fair bit.

Oh and Pulleys is really nice.

I like about half of this album I suppose.

[assnationday]

still not in their top 5 but aging well...

[Stanshant]

I'm just listening to CHz again and I've found that even Wide Eyed sounds quite good through the Bottlehead Crack amp running TungSol 5998 power tube and Mullard CV4003 input tube into Senn HD650 phones. The bass is much more controlled, the mids are billowing and the soundstage is enormous; there's finally enough room for all those wanky little noises they shat all over the shop.

Two stars: would bang again.

[witek]

I really really think that Centipede Hz is the most beautiful piece of music ever made. Im really into this album. I love all the other records, but THIS is just... BEYOND.

In the begining was hard to like it. But everytime i lesson, i see a completely new album. Theres so much layers, so much sound mixed into this deep sea of feelings. Its absurd, its incredible.

And Crimson, Gotham and Honeycomb are included in this level.

[colin]

ya the more i hear it the more i appreciate the way it was mixed cuz i hear new stuff depending on what speakers i hear it on, how loud i play it, etc

[Fan]

Wow, that Mercury cover really is great. Love how it keeps the vocal melody intact, while backing it up with an amazing string arrangement. Are there any more like this?

[rampface]

CHz sounds like a really weird, ugly bug and/or being drunk at chuck e. cheese on a tuesday.

[GeckoSushi]

Kind of wish they called the album HzDonut

[Fan]

I can totally hear the "drunk at chuck e. cheese on a tuesday" comparison, nice one rampface. Like a man sized, drunken cockroach.

[lonecyclone]

Myles_Dunhill wrote:

Kind of wish they called the album HzDonut

lol

[Dearest]

witek wrote:

I really really think that Centipede Hz is the most beautiful piece of music ever made

Thank god this isn't true

[Tico]

good one dearest

[Wilbur]

rampface wrote:

CHz sounds like a really weird, ugly bug and/or being drunk at chuck e. cheese on a tuesday.

I love the Chuck E Cheese comparison, that feels really accurate.

But Monkey Riches is just a big hangover for me anymore

[Night Park]

witek wrote:

I really really think that Centipede Hz is the most beautiful piece of music ever made

[CampfireBeast]

[Dearest]

Tico wrote:

good one dearest

Thanks

[dio]

witek that might be slightly hyperbolic but I agree that chz is very good!!

[witek]

Hahahahaha
I meant to sound hyperbolic, cause i can't believe theres so much people disliking this album. We needed to equilibrate things round here.

I mean, sometimes i love Spirit, sometimes i prefer Fall Be Kind. But Centipede its always a mistery, always a challenge.

I love to hear Centiped Hz while i'm getting the train to my moms house. All that sound summing with everything i see, the people in, the city out. The cars dancing in the traffic, the movements that build up a city. The lines and forms in the houses, on the faces, in the parts of the train, in the girls sitting on the train. At the same time, i float on a blue river in space, guided to a thousand voices to lots of different fellings. Well, there's so much about the things i feel while hearing that...

[Vovenarg]

i think that's extremely well put. i love the mystery and "challenge" of it too - and if someone says that's not what you're "supposed" to like about music, i say stop making yourself look so dumb.

[colin]

witek wrote:

I love to hear Centiped Hz while i'm getting the train to my moms house. All that sound summing with everything i see, the people in, the city out. The cars dancing in the traffic, the movements that build up a city. The lines and forms in the houses, on the faces, in the parts of the train, in the girls sitting on the train. At the same time, i float on a blue river in space, guided to a thousand voices to lots of different fellings. Well, there's so much about the things i feel while hearing that...

the people looking at you thinking "ill have two of whatever he's on"


i think its funny how all u have to do to get the critics back to this thread is praise it and they come running like pigs to the trough

[GeckoSushi]

I don't mind people not liking this album, but putting other people down for liking it and praising it, is really petty.

[bullseye]

^this.

(<3 chz)

[Stanshant]

I'm tough on Centipede Hz and tough on the causes of Centipede Hz.

[colin]

*cough* oink *cough*

[CampfireBeast]

witek said chz is the most beautiful piece of music ever made yeah haters are gonna stop by

[Vovenarg]

oinkers gonna oink

[iKahn]

I still really enjoy CHz. Some tracks(Monkey Riches, Rosie Oh) have worn thin and I don't enjoy them as much. Other tracks(Applesauce, Amanita) I wore myself out on...Still love them, but I don't listen to them as much as I once did. Here we are though, over a year and a half later, and tracks like TS, Moonjock, and especially Father Time, NTB and Mercury Man are some of my favorite AC songs...But just not in the traditional abstract psychedelic bizarreness I tend to think of when I think of AC a favorite AC song.


Great record, but I agree with others here that it's not quite as extraordinary as some of their earlier records.

[dio]

i think i like chz the most because it seems like such a density of instrumental interplay and sampling, and i think of all their albums its sort of the jammiest, and their musicianship is maybe on display more here than anywhere else, like in a more technical sense, so in that way it kinda feels different than any of their other albums. to borrow a music critic term, it seem the most "muscular" ac lp. this is arguable of course

[archie]

imagine hey light on the chz tour
pandas kick drum on all 4's n deakin/avey ferociously dronin that chord on their guitars/keyboard
n then pulleys-jam-like outro with heavily effected smooth instrumentation
gotttdammmm

[real slippi]

i'd convinced myself they'd revamp native belle for one of the chz tours...alas it wasn't meant to be

[RouOfCoorflig]

The bridge of Mercury Man is one of the most beautiful vocal melodies Avey has ever crafted

[P nu]

yeah and mercury man has some of the best drums too

[P nu]

goddamn Rosie Oh is the weirdest song ever its so good - this album has seriously flipped on me so many times - digging hard rn

[P nu]

that chill ass part in Father Time at 3:00 - o man this album is so good thank u nice boys

[rampface]

That's the spirit!