Collected Animals

did the physical come with a digital download?

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didn't come with a download

my domino orders always come from michigan (im right below in indiana) and for some reason they decide to go halfway across the country before coming to my house. screw usps!

These tracks are awesome! I love how goofy Gnip Gnop is and the beat for Hounds is really interesting. Anyone want to take a crack at the lyrics?

Gnip Gnop is so good. I thought it was annoyingly repetitive at first but now I love it. It was a great song live, too.

here's my shot at Gnip lyrics


GNIP GNOP
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G-nip G-nop
I don't wanna ever stop
With G-nop G-nip
You gotta ease on the beginners
You can't relax? and you have to rush? the challenge
Well there's no hate
Just love to keep ya gnippin'

When we were younger
We took up the fabulous game
G-nip and G-nop
It's the sound of the rhythm we play
That noisy rattle means
Someone will triumph today

Maybe a spoke? It's the way that you look at what's pretty?
Linked in one mind if we master the infinite volley
Going the distance and watching the ball while it's flying
Feeling the effortless pool while we're swinging the paddle
None of us wants it to fall so we're working together

G-nip G-nop
The beautiful green top where
My mind is ???
The concentration's locked on
G-nop G-nippin'
Are focused on the poppin'
I feel entranced on
The easy way to hop

I feel me movin'
G-nip G-nop is cool when
You want to loosen
The motion of the bones
You feel the ball that's
Extended from the paddle
And send it off with
A spell that gets your heart goin'

G-nip G-nop
The beautiful green top where
My mind is ???
The concentration's locked on
G-nop G-nippin'
Are focused on the poppin'
I feel entranced on
The easy way to hop

G-nip G-nop
I don't wanna ever stop
With G-nop G-nip
You gotta ease on the beginners
You can't relax and you have to rush the challenge
Well there's no hate
Just a little bit a..

When we were younger
We took up the fabulous game
G-nip and G-nop
It's the sound of the rhythm we play
That noisy rattle means
Someone will triumph today

Maybe a spoke? It's the way that you look at what's pretty?
Linked in one mind if we master the infinite volley
Going the distance and watching the ball while it's flying
Feeling the effortless pool while we're swinging the paddle
None of us wants it to fall so we're working together

G-nip G-nop
The beautiful green top where
My mind is ???
The concentration's locked on
G-nop G-nippin'
Are focused on the poppin'
I feel entranced on
The easy way to hop

I feel me movin'
G-nip G-nop is cool when
You want to loosen
The motion of the bones
You feel the ball that's
Extended from the paddle
And send it off with
A spell that gets your heart goin'

G-nip G-nop
I don't wanna ever stop
With G-nop G-nip
You gotta ease on the beginners
You can't relax and you have to rush the challenge
Well there's no hate
Just love to keep ya gnippin'

whats that twitching wrote:

the bass on natural selection kinda turns me off..especially the riff that comes in after "resting in your hands"

for me, it's the way he sings. it feels unnatural, ironically, and just like he's going through the motions of songwriting instead of focusing on writing a good song. the lyrics feel contrived too. yes, it's fun live, and easy to dance hard to, but that doesn't really make it good when im just listening to the album

Sorry to invade this thread with discussion on the album as a whole. gnip gnop is pretty fun

The way he sings is what makes the song for me tho, personally

Dave wrote better songs, but Noah's vocals were off-the-charts good on pretty much every track. Definitely the definitive singer on PW

Noah's vocals were off-the-charts good on pretty much every track. Definitely the definitive singer on PW

wat

did I stutter? I don't even think that most people would disagree with me on that here

noah definitely has the more technically impressive vocals on the album, if that's what you're arguing.

but dave's songs feature noah more sparingly and noah's songs are all hocketing so i don't know if he can really be the definitive singer of the record... the way they play off of each other is the definitive vocal sound of the record i guess, even though i actually like dave's voice and melodies more most of the time.

the stevie wonder vocoder thing in the elusive Gnip Gnop chorus is so damn infectious

noah definitely has the more technically impressive vocals on the album, if that's what you're arguing.

This is what I meant

Any chance someone can PM?

For some reason i can't tell, is the "g-nip g-nop op op op op op" part in the background sung by the dudes or is it a sample?

if anyone has a rip that isnt basically all right channel pls send it my way

so excited to hear this for real. even this rip has me bobbin around )) these songs are the jam. love both of them

For some reason i can't tell, is the "g-nip g-nop op op op op op" part in the background sung by the dudes or is it a sample?

One of the voices really sounds like Noah

if anyone has a rip that isnt basically all right channel pls send it my way

ya i have no idea how to use audacity.. it automatically recorded like that. know how to fix it to record it better?

I'll fix it

Might of fixed it, one of my ears is a little messed up but the meters in audacity say its balanced. Hit me up for the goods. Banshee, I'll just pm you.

genuinely curious how to rip music and not have it be like that. feel free to pm me drbsl if you feel like explaining it

edit: waveforms looked like this while ripping. i never changed any settings after installing audacity and the balance on my receiver is directly in the center. didn't know how to fix it so i just used it like this

Yeah looking forward to hearing this not underwater

I can take a crack at mastering them some when I get home to see if I can get rid of some of the noise and center it more.

[edit] Working on it now though I'm not sure what I'm doing is going to sound any better. It sounds more hollow now rather than full of bass. I'm going to keep tinkering with it and see what I can get...just kinda hard to determine what will sound good without a second pair of ears.

[edit 2] Alright I think I got Gnip Gnop sounding a LOT better. Lowered some of the low end frequencies to balance out with the higher end, the bells and synths are more clear, the vocals have more clarity and most importantly, the sounds are centered rather than being entirely to the left or right channel. Anyone interested I can shoot a link, working on Hounds of Bairro now.

if anyone can pm me the gnips and hounds when they can thatd be super!

Got ya bud. Anyone who wants the remastered freebird shoot me a PM, or Zak. I sent him the link as well.

i think the lyrics for gnip gnop being about the game is really funny for some reason.


i've been watching gnip gnop videos for fun and it seems like such a silly game
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvSJREYz-ZY&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]

Can confirm it's a super silly game

does anyone else really hate gnip gnop lol. hounds of bairro slays tho

I think it's about ping pong, not gnip gnop... re: the lyrics, "paddle" and "volley".
Also isn't ping pong a kind of reverb? My guess is ping pong is in a similar vein to "on delay" - being songs that refer to the actual making of their music.

I'll also say that there are definitely lines in Hounds that make me think that song is about their creative process. "this stuff blasts" etc... (there's many others)

All in all, I love both of these songs so much. And I love that their themes and subjects are simple.

i thought it was "take care with that mission, because this stuff lasts" kinda in line with "get it right, cuz the moment closes in, time runs out.." and "plans will make or break this old man, beware of those itches, cuz once its passed you can't go back"

im super down with both songs honestly. they go well together and in context with the rest of the songs i think. glad i got to see hounds over gnip gnop live. when we get to (spelling edit: hear) those other 2 mystery songs?

when we get to (spelling edit: hear) those other 2 mystery songs?

what two songs? one of them is jimmy mack i'm guessing, what's the other one?

personally i fucking love gnip gnop, enjoying hounds too but wow gnip gnop is probably already my favorite of the painting with era

Jimmy Mack is a cover. The two songs he's referring to were mentioned in interviews where Avey and Panda said they each wrote 8 songs for the recording sessions. My hunch/hope is they'll be released as part of a post-tour EP like they did with Fall Be Kind. Avey vaguely alluded to that in the reddit AMA

i knew jimmy mack was a cover, but i thought/hoped they might do a studio session where they recorded it. that's good to hear though, new material is always fantastic.

I'm sooo annoyed at this point when I read "eh I don't really like the new songs, they don't really go anywhere" .... Where the fuck were they suppose to go, the store? Ughhhh pecker heads, i swear smh hahaha

so some people have got the 7" already, has anyone in europe got theirs? still no word from domino here...

idk if anyone's said this but gnip gnop sounds a lot like theyre comparing the game to their music

idk if anyone's said this but gnip gnop sounds a lot like theyre comparing the game to their music

gnip gnop sounds like they went full kid's TV show

Gnip Gnop is probably my favorite so far of this era besides Burglars and LitG. The "Gnip Gnop I don't ever want to stop" part always gives me a rush

I also think the song is at least partially about their songwriting with this album. Like going back and forth with the hocketing and never wanting to stop. "None of us want it to fall so we're working together"