Collected Animals

oh well now i'm getting sad

that pic is beautiful though, except for Deak blocking Pandy. c'mon deaak

Bagels and The Burglars are gonna be the next big jams I think (what about a sick blend of the two called Burglars in Kiev). On Delay sounds like such a good finisher for a show. Honestly I wish they would have switched its position with Recycling on the album.

Spilling Guts needs to be longerrrrrrrrr, this song has grown on me the most out of any other tracks. The part at "take the hit or take the fall" is classic AC chills for me.

I just called Union Transfer and the woman I spoke to said that she was unaware of any sort of stream. Someone should message Avey on Instagram.

Spoiler: show

Victor Borge wrote:

That's sick that someone is streaming the show, but I will say that it looks a little sketch to me, like it's just a random yt channel called "Streaming 2016" that I've never heard of before. Just don't wanna get psyched for the stream if it ends up being shitty quality/bad sound etc. The link in the video description also seems kinda sketch

but hey, I wasn't aware of this stream's existence until this morning so if it turns out to be not that great, I won't really be disappointed

i took one for the team and clicked the short url and it didnt take me anywhere promising

i bet this was set up by a bot or something

ok wow I just clicked around on the site linked in the video description and it's actually extremely sketch/fake looking. I'm guessing the stream is fake. Dammit

Someone should message Avey on Instagram.

lol please don't

vanitybonfire wrote:

Someone should message Avey on Instagram.

lol please don't

People do this often. He seems pretty receptive and usually responds. Don't see what's wrong with using it as a channel to ask him questions as long as people don't abuse it and as long as he seems cool with it

PW has received great reviews in France so far from Rock and Folk (4/5) and Les Inrock (4,5)!! They say the band deliberately started from scratch with this album and managed to bring more fresh ideas to pop music with 1 album than 99% of ordinary indie bands in their entire career




love to everyone, looking forward to seeing the band at la Cigale in Paris

Also, New Noise gave it 8.5 out of 10 !

about to dive in for the first time y'all

The slip mat thing is pretty amazing. I used the strobe light in the app while playing Recycling through my speakers and just spinning the slip mat on my turntable. The little water drops on the slip mat match up with the watery beat.

roopn wrote:

That is so fuckin funny to me, like they're pointing out how silly the delay effect is, even after they've used it so much in the past.

heh the whole song plays with descriptions of delay/echo

doubly clear
the sound coming after
slap the world back at ya (slapback delay)
a feedback zone

it really is an ode to delay

Are there any songs on this album that strike you guys as lending themselves well to extended live jams?

I'm thinking recycling

i think u guys nailed it with recycling, litg, and ambient passage into bagels/middle of bagels. im also thinking the end of on delay has big potential for a really long ambient passage

god what does that twinkly synth in Summing the Wretch remind me of
its killing me

My LP still hasn't arrived... I'm ticked, man. I would've rather taken the hour drive out to Jersey City on Tuesday and picked it up than wait here not knowing when it's coming.

god what does that twinkly synth in Summing the Wretch remind me of
its killing me

It reminds me of a spooky carousel

I'm not going to bother Avey about it again since we've talked so much in the last few days. I'd say monitor the stream, but I'm still going to record the whole show tonight and try to have it up on youtube by tomorrow

DAMN this album doesn't let up, in the best way possible!

Aghh! So hyped! Ready for some new boots!!!

Also, I'll throw up some pics of the merch table once I get in the venue.

Sweet. Thank you

EDIT: Also, Austin folks, End of an Ear has extra slipmats, posters, and Domino totes to the first however many customers.

By the way, hopefully someone going tonight will have a higher quality mic with them. I think someone said they will. I'm recording the show with my iPhone 6, so i'm not worried at all about the video quality, and the audio should be fine, but if you want a nice boot to be able to listen to, i'll leave that duty to someone else

http://www.slugmag.com/national-music-r ... ting-with/

"Ten years from now, fans of the band will hear the album with fresh ears, comfortably distanced from its shadow-bearing achievement and see it for what it truly is—a masterpiece beyond compare."

CORRECT

This album fucking rules !

Its like all the songs are just twice shorter in length ...

Love love love

oh shit guys! the AC boys are doing an AMA at r/indieheads next thursday!!

i really like the album alot.

Guys, do you think the kiddie pool is the percussive sound at the beginning of recycling (it continues on through)?

I'm in lol.. big time, took a few listens but I'm fucking loving this right now <3

Bagels for everyone!

hm maybe. i keep trying to listen for that damn kiddie pool....

i think its weird that Golden Gal is probably my least favorite song : / feels odd cuz its a single and most people seem to be way into it. id take burglars or OD over it anyday tho... its just no lion in a coma/nmr or mercury man/pulleys. still solid tho

I've been pretty busy and doing some other stuff so only listened to this sparingly. Just listened to it all the way through while playing The Witness and it absolutely flew by. Pure bouncing. It does fill its own hole in their discography and I agree with the quote above that it'll be looked back upon as something special. I feel the immediacy of the presentation is quite off-putting at first, at least with certain songs, but once you get through the surface layers, it's such a rich and well balanced record. Not an ounce of fat on it. I also really really love the little flourishes of piano, particularly on Summing The Wretch, it's finally made me fall for that song too.

i'll now do what avey said in one of the interviews: to go outside and listen to it.

it's gonna get up in the 60s here this weekend, definitely gonna be doing this too

oh shit guys! the AC boys are doing an AMA at r/indieheads next thursday!!

noice

oh shit guys! the AC boys are doing an AMA at r/indieheads next thursday!!

YES. This is excellent news.

so pumped for this tour.

Still digging this album.. listening for what it is an not wishing for something long past, it's solid and very enjoyable..

The last two songs are by far my favorite. Golden Gal melodies in my head constantly.. I think Recycling is one of my all time AC faves...love that song...

Actually think Floridada is pretty great too now

man Spilling Guts keeps growing on me. love that one so much. feel like panda's songs are just as emotional as avey's except in a totally different way that i cant put my finger on.... NS is my second favorite....

http://www.slugmag.com/national-music-r ... ting-with/

SLUG MAG wrote:

"Ten years from now, fans of the band will hear the album with fresh ears, comfortably distanced from its shadow-bearing achievement and see it for what it truly is—a masterpiece beyond compare."

CORRECT

I think he was actually talking about Chz there! Which I agree with. I think Chz is such a masterpiece. There are sonic moments on that record which I feel like are completely unparalleled.

Love Painting With too!

This is a great album for making art, which fits considering the title. I listened to it at least 4 times last night while doing illustration work.

This is a great album for making art, which fits considering the title. I listened to it at least 4 times last night while doing illustration work.

Yeah, definitely! I've been drawing while listening to it and flows so well as a creative accompaniment.

all I've been playing in the studio

this record is awesome. so freakin solid.... and amazing textures/production/energy/writing/singing/lyrics. like everything lol... probably my only complaint is that i sorta wish they let a couple songs in the middle zone-out a bit, and they kiiinda do on OD, but if OD and bagels had even bigger outros or intros thatd be awesome. cant be mad tho, the flow is amazing and i bet we'll get that side of things on bootlegs (tooonightttt!!!).

also feel like this album almost works as a companion to chz. has a somewhat similar techno-jungle feeling to the instrumentation (tho i think pw takes this further and is even better in that department) but with chz you get longer songs sung by a single member and its a bit angstier and more emotional while pw is all abt the harmonies/vocal arrangements and a somewhat homogenized energy and happy feeling.... so if u get tired of one the other one is kind of like an alternate take on a somewhat similar sound set. if u want more emotional guitar/deakin/single vocalists u play that chz and if u want a bouncy/harmony-heavy/shorter vibe u hit up pw. ac rlly meets my needs...

blah blah blah

YOU ARE COMPLETELY CORRECT. DAMN ME.

!!!!!!

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