Collected Animals

wat a biscuity post there vro

panda is for ac sheep/entry levels, avey is for tru AC-heads and deak is for hxrdcores. geo is for tru-old school forumer level.

close but actually geo is for hockey nerds

on a hockey level i cant support someone who is actively a flyers fan

JUST KIDDING COMPLETELY GEO IS ONE OF MY IDOLS I LOVE HIM

I had listened to this only from beginning to end the first several times I heard it. then over the past week i have been listening to random songs from it. after a weeklong break from listening to the full thing from beginning to end, I listened to tho whole thing again while running yesterday. It's easy to overlook how well paced and sequenced this album is due to it's length, but fuck, this album is perfectly put together. Can't believe how great it is!

I picked up a CD copy the other day, it's awesome. :3

Make a bath, get real high, put some essential oils in (eucalyptus duh), light candles, put on the album, and enjoy the ecstasy.

hadnt thought of the bath experience with eulacyptus - that actually sounds like an ideal listening experience for this music!

i've listened to this in the bath too (though sans eucalyptus). agreed that it's a perfect listening environment!

I've been wanting to post this for a while

The freakiest film where nothing happens, the silence, the heat, wafting eucalypts and the buzzing cicadas....

Disappear into the portal of timelessness, sync it to the album and you're in for a treat

There's something to the slow unfolding aesthetic that matches this album, it was filmed apparently using unusual methods, lace over the lenses that refracted the light, kaleidiscopic with a soft focus.... magical

one of my all time favorites ^

I wrote a review of Eucalyptus for a new blog I just started, check it out if you feel so inclined:

http://www.bricksclappinginthedark.com/ ... eucalyptus

Guys, I'm at a loss on this one. I've listened to it countless times. Many different environments. It's just awful as a whole.I feel horrible saying that.

I can see some moments of beauty in the first half, but they aren't sustained or elaborated on enough for me to be wowed, at least at the beginning.

The first 8 songs admittedly have their moments, but they're few and far between. I know Avey's a little more into the freefrom (hyuck), but I just can't find myself willfully listening to these songs.

The latter half of the album is great. I want to stress that. I liked that In Pieces has a synth patch that I'm pretty sure was used in Oddsac (Lady On The Lake?). The song is fantastic. Maybe I'm just a pleb that needs a kick drum and good lyrics. Coral Lords is beautiful. As is Sports in July, When You Left Me is a solid closer. These songs just speak to me in a way the first half of the album can't. I get the whole Eucalyptus blooming thing... I respect that. But maybe I just don't have the patience for this piece as a whole. I feel the album could've been slimmed down greatly.

For the record, I loved all of Down There, loved Slasher Flicks, still regularly jam Crumbling Land, and love what he writes with the band. I'm just torn on this one. I think some of it is great.

And of course this is the best version of Selection of a Place.

Maybe I'm just a pleb that needs a kick drum and good lyrics.

Correction: you are just a pleb that needs a kick drum and apparently can't recognize good lyrics

Album is a flipping masterpiece. Actually frightens me it might not have gotten released. What other treasures have the guys held back on, for real

Album is a flipping masterpiece. Actually frightens me it might not have gotten released. What other treasures have the guys held back on, for real

spongeluke...

taptherockies wrote:

Maybe I'm just a pleb that needs a kick drum and good lyrics.

Correction: you are just a pleb that needs a kick drum and apparently can't recognize good lyrics

So you think the lyrics on In Pieces aren't good? Or did you think that's what I was saying?

All the rest of it, pal.

I'm saying the album has the best lyrics Avey has written since Feels

Yeah the lyrics on this are really great

This album is so gorgeous. Really love the quiet jazzy undertones that snuck into Selection of a Place and Coral Lords--the horns especially in CL are exceptional. Does anyone else kinda get some The Books vibe from the way Avey is using samples and production on this album? Also, wanted to put out there that the monologue at the start of CL may be the climax of the album to me, like some serious music is about to go down.

God, and Melody Unfair maybe my favorite murky Avey tune to date. Love the way the soundscape gets slowly introduced until that train whistle sound, which sort of signals Angel's vocals to come in.

Much more I could say, but I think I'll end by puttit it out there that Season High, In Pieces, Selection Of A Place, Boat Race, and Sports in July are some of the most interesting Avey songs I've ever heard. Really love this expressive voice he uses on this album.

oh this album does great wonders indeed ...

a true masterpiece and classic that will be ...

Boat Race seems to grow on me more with every single listen. so simple yet so beautiful

I mean, I get what dude is saying. I like the album a lot but every few listens, I'll let myself wonder if this album had more bold walls built around the project? I think, for me, personally, a more Panda Bear-ish assembly with tight production and more shall we say structure could have made the lyrics, which are for sure the star of the show, more of the main event.

That being said, when I'm down for the full EU experience, its immensely rewarding. I just wish I didn't feel like I had to do all four sides of the LP to enjoy it...

The drop of sun studios ig has been posting some pics of Avey and Deakin hanging out, could just be rehearsal for the solo tour but I'm hoping maybe he's recording the mothlight jams?

^was just about to post that. Hope so

Smoke weed everyday - Avey tare

omg

Hell yea

It blows my mind that Boat Race was written in a stream of consciousness. So genius

Haha fucking excellent, I love how theyre like "we dont want to be a drug band" but secretly theyre like "drugs are great lol"

Despite the fact that it'll probably never happen, smoking with avey tops my life bucket list

Ya boi gets it... or more i like i got it from ya boi

Despite the fact that it'll probably never happen, smoking with avey tops my life bucket list

both of you wearing bucket hats?

This album really is stunning and so consistent. Among AC's best

The drop of sun studios ig has been posting some pics of Avey and Deakin hanging out, could just be rehearsal for the solo tour but I'm hoping maybe he's recording the mothlight jams?

contact the studio to see if they have a rehearsal space?

This album feels so special and it grew on me a lot since it came out
I always end up playing it just around dusk or dawn and I'm like YESSSS when I realize it

I'm in charlotte now and I wish I had a car cus I'd totally go to asheville right now
Maybe it'll be more special to listen to those mothlight jams there in the future

Half of life is meeting u theeerrre

if u come to asheville u have a place to stay