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Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 18, 2015 10:19 am

I mean you've got all these chilled out beats in between all this crazy abrasive stuff. so siiick

Pretty unique songs, too. For instance, Bat You'll Fly. There's no way that would even fit in on a different album.

Post **Posted:** Wed Jul 22, 2015 10:04 am

I listened to it last night, it had been a while since I last gave it a spin. That record is really special ! Chocolate girl, Alvin Row, April and the .. !

Chocolate girl really got to me, these songs are really special

It's really impressive when you know how old they were when they did it

Post **Posted:** Wed Jul 22, 2015 2:02 pm

Dallou wrote:

It's really impressive when you know how old they were when they did it

seriously.... I'm at the age now where they were making this stuff and I keep having to remind myself that no, it's not normal that I would have made my magnum opus at this age.......

Post **Posted:** Wed Jul 22, 2015 2:40 pm

demonclusters wrote:

Dallou wrote:
It's really impressive when you know how old they were when they did it

seriously.... I'm at the age now where they were making this stuff and I keep having to remind myself that no, it's not normal that I would have made my magnum opus at this age.......

what's most impressive about this is the lyrics (to penny dreadfuls in particular). how does something like that come out of a 16-year-old's head?!

Post **Posted:** Wed Jul 22, 2015 3:05 pm

I have a friend I've known since we were 14 who was writing stuff like that at 15. except he's extremely depressed and doesn't have the motivation to keep any of his work. he destroys it. I wish he didn't, he's a super talented writer

Post **Posted:** Wed Jul 22, 2015 3:33 pm

Do you guys think Pb can still play drums like he did on spirit? Like of you handed him some brushes and sat him down at a kit would he be able to break out the crazier parts of La Rapet? Probs not lol,but imagining him playing that, especially as an 18 year old... Wow

Post **Posted:** Wed Jul 22, 2015 4:21 pm

Has he ever talked about receiving formal lessons for drums or did he just teach himself?
Seems kinda crazy that he has this one album's worth of super technical drumming and then nothing else he's done has really touched on it aside from CHz maybe

Post **Posted:** Thu Jul 23, 2015 9:03 am

I don't think that he practis a lot of the old tunes. When I saw him last summer, I asked him if he would someday play any of the PP by any chance. He said : "aha I don't remember * how to play them"

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2015 2:55 pm

LA RAPET....just how?! how the hell did they create that tune. An absolute masterpiece. It completely destroys me every time i hear it. Aveys voice is perfect on that song.

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2015 3:22 pm

I always get a demented supermarket tune vibe from the beginning of Bat You'll Fly for some reason

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 24, 2015 4:18 pm

alvin row blows me away everytime

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 25, 2015 1:50 am

I was just listening earlier and reading lyrics online
Someone mentioned it above, but the lyricism on this album really is unreal for the time in Avey's life it was written. Unbelievable... I wish I had half the word smithing prowess he possesses

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 25, 2015 3:00 pm

fuuuuuck ok than yoiu everyone in this thread you've gotten me right back into this albumahhhhhh it's so goOOd

I feel so elusive in Huston, You feel so exclusive in Huston
I feel so elusive in Huston, You feel so exclusive in Huston
I feel so elusive in Huston, You feel so exclusive in Huston
I feel so elusive in Huston, You feel so exclusive in Huston
I feel so elusive in Huston, You feel so exclusive in Huston
[sub]I feel so elusive in Huston, You feel so exclusive in Huston[/sub]

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 25, 2015 8:44 pm

Jack Huston? or Anjelica?

Post **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2015 1:00 am

I love spirit. I associate it with a very specific time in my life. So fucking brutal/magic. it's always such a painful listening experience emotionally. There's so much sadness and desperation and pain, I feel like Avey's vision must have been so clear and intense when he wrote these songs. I've never heard anything like them. It's like he was peering into the heart of existence, and it changed him irreversibly. Kind of how I feel whenever I listen to it...

Also PANDA BRUSH DRUMS ALL DAY!!!!!

I wonder what it felt like to be either panda/avey when they were working on and listening to these songs together at the time they were being made... Think i'm about to pop this baby on and die as a child in my mind now. Love u animals. Be careful out there.

Post **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2015 5:41 pm

still the most life changing album for me

Post **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2015 6:12 pm

simply magical. like black-and-white forest children in grass skirts retreating to their underground hole and lighting candles sitting in a circle and laughing

Post **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2015 8:06 pm

All of the feedback loops that litter this album create immense unexplainable emotions inside me.

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2015 12:35 am

Think that's how they felt too. Thank God for the AC ... Otherwise welll ...

I'd for sure be a lost cause.

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2015 12:40 am

pumpkin you are the greatest

and your av is so lovely

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2015 12:47 am

I love you brother man too. And you know that.

My av is a good representation of how I feel presently.

Thanks for much love as always compadre ... : D

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2015 10:58 pm

I remember trying to listen to "Spirit They've Vanished" over one of those FM transmitters for playing music on your car stereo and hearing it completely garbled because the frequencies were too high to transmit.

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 27, 2015 11:24 pm

Those transmitters are ass. Especially from five below. Ugh the memories.

Post **Posted:** Tue Jul 28, 2015 12:40 am

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 06, 2015 2:43 am

Spirit would be a great album without Alvin Row....then Alvin Row comes in and takes it to the next level :mj:

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 06, 2015 4:08 am

My favorite album of all time

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 06, 2015 6:40 am

csw wrote:

Spirit would be a great album without Alvin Row....then Alvin Row comes in and takes it to the next level

this is true. like without alvin row it's a nice, confident, and well-done debut.

but then alvin row comes in like a blast of divine truth for you godless heathens

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 06, 2015 4:23 pm

Alvin Blow My Mind

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 06, 2015 4:38 pm

csw wrote:

Spirit would be a great album without Alvin Row

agreed

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 06, 2015 4:41 pm

Alvin row is a concoction of all the songs thrown together into one delicious stew. Yup.

Post **Posted:** Fri Aug 07, 2015 5:02 am

demonclusters wrote:

anyone else that has it on vinyl notice that funny little symbol in the middle of the record?

Im thinking about getting it tattooed on my forearm. I asked avey what it means on instagram, and he responded "Avey tare!!" lol

can you post a pic of the symbol? my ac vinyl collection is small, yet. :!

I'd love to take a peek at the symbol though, I'm a big glyph nerd

Post **Posted:** Fri Aug 07, 2015 6:10 pm

surely one of the greatest albums ever. this record brings me to a totally unique place--a place of innocence and youth and laughter and magic. i don't think i'll ever tire of it.

also, how the hell are the synths so great here? i especially love the bass synth that sort of bubbles under every song (like during "she ran out in natuuuuuuuuuuuuuure")

Post **Posted:** Fri Aug 07, 2015 8:23 pm

Yep, Scooter, that's the symbol. it'd make a dope tattoo, no?

Post **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2015 3:25 am

It's cool someone brought up Boces by Mercury Rev cuz I always thought the vocals on 'Boys Peel Out' are mixed in a similar way to Aveys on Spirit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo4y8iGaEb4

Post **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2015 2:12 pm

I'd get it as a tattoo

Post **Posted:** Mon May 16, 2016 10:51 am

the drum fill at 3:06 in April and the phantom
:negative:

also I'm cringing at my posts above. I agree with them but I wrote so yuck 1yr ago

Post **Posted:** Tue May 17, 2016 12:02 am

reminder that this is the best AC record

Post **Posted:** Tue May 17, 2016 12:19 am

spirit they vanished is one of my favorite songs of all time. one of my greatest inspirations. this album should serve as inspiration on that note to all people who want to make music. we all have something beautiful inside us

Post **Posted:** Tue May 17, 2016 1:58 am

demonclusters wrote:

reminder that this is the best Avey solo record

fixed

Post **Posted:** Tue May 17, 2016 2:53 am

Victor Borge wrote:

demonclusters wrote:
reminder that this is the best Avey solo record

fixed