Collected Animals • Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper

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Post **Posted:** Sun Aug 09, 2015 1:07 am

Lolz @michael & tropic....

'Cosplay' is

The lyrics to this one really ain't that kryptic

Post **Posted:** Sun Aug 09, 2015 2:15 am

No, on the demos Boom gave us it's called Cosplay Chav

Post **Posted:** Sun Aug 09, 2015 2:17 am

Post **Posted:** Sun Aug 09, 2015 2:18 am

Oh, I must be misremembering. Which track has chav in the title?

Post **Posted:** Sun Aug 09, 2015 2:20 am

Oh I actually don't remember eitheR. I'm just drunk and bein dumb. It probably is cosplay.

Post **Posted:** Sun Aug 09, 2015 2:21 am

its CHAVVY COSPLAY on the demos, don't think that really means he hates british poor

Post **Posted:** Sun Aug 09, 2015 2:23 am

Haha, when you just said nope I did think is this guy drunk or something

Post **Posted:** Sun Aug 09, 2015 2:25 am

lol Panda hates the welfare state, poor people, japanese manga fans, anyone who goes to comicon

.... it seems there's a lot of analogies that float through this era of Panda's music, and nothing appears to be straight forward.... he talked alot about making something honest and not 'dressed in a costume' this time round so i guess i'm not taking too much from this album as simple one-liners.... IMO

Post **Posted:** Sun Aug 09, 2015 6:29 am

i love this album, don't get me wrong
but it didn't quite reach my expectations
i was trying to figure out what would have.. and wouldn't this be fucking amazing?

less reverb on everything, no interludes, tracks blend sort of like live performances...

DISC 1:
papadum
ms. pacman
g-yeah
jabberwocky
boys latin
come to your senses (long live version, w the drop)
untying the knot
this side of paradise
nadir (w apocolypse now sample + thx sound)

DISC 2:
sequential circuits
mr. noah (w/o intro)
garage (w drop)
butcher baker candlestick maker
tropic of cancer
lonely wanderer
principe real
cosplay
acid wash

im going to try and make my version of this when the EP is released...

Post **Posted:** Sun Aug 09, 2015 10:51 am

The Greaper era is ripe for a fan-made double album with interludes, that's for sure.

Post **Posted:** Sun Aug 09, 2015 11:27 am

ooh like that tomboiled mix someone made. that was really good

Post **Posted:** Sun Aug 09, 2015 12:38 pm

Bring on Down Greaper, I say.

Post **Posted:** Sun Aug 09, 2015 10:39 pm

It was a poster on here named Bullseye. He made The Feeling Store as well.

Post **Posted:** Mon Aug 10, 2015 2:22 am

luv that dood

Post **Posted:** Mon Aug 10, 2015 4:59 am

what's the feeling store, exactly?

Post **Posted:** Mon Aug 10, 2015 5:46 am

dude mixed together the feels tracks with the feels b-sides and added in live transitions to make a big fat feels-era album. It's pretty great! I like tomboiled more though.

Post **Posted:** Mon Aug 10, 2015 12:57 pm

Post **Posted:** Mon Aug 10, 2015 1:12 pm

Tropic of Cans wrote:

It was a poster on here named Bullseye. He made The Feeling Store as well.

i only made the feeling store. tomboiled was done by some other dude but it's also really great.

Post **Posted:** Mon Aug 10, 2015 2:06 pm

didn't frumpkin make tomboiled?

Post **Posted:** Mon Aug 10, 2015 2:08 pm

Oh right.

I'm surprised an MPP one hasn't been made, although I'd imagine the transitions would be sorta hard to blend in properly

Post **Posted:** Mon Aug 10, 2015 2:17 pm

Think I got tomboiled from highfive?

Post **Posted:** Mon Aug 10, 2015 3:03 pm

bullseye wrote:

Tropic of Cans wrote:
It was a poster on here named Bullseye. He made The Feeling Store as well.

i only made the feeling store. tomboiled was done by some other dude but it's also really great.

w2c?

Post **Posted:** Sat Aug 15, 2015 2:40 am

Sonic boom wrote:

the feeling store wrote:
Pete:

Do you know if anything ever became of Soft Serve Rip Curl (below)? He put out that instrumental along with the instrumental for Principe Real and I really like Soft Serve but he's not played a full version of this live yet...

No.....think hes keeping that jam in preserve....
.....sweet one though....

"In preserve" is totally subjective but I'm resigned to it being a one off DJ thing.

Pete might be saying it's never being played live

Post **Posted:** Sat Aug 15, 2015 3:36 am

i read it as "pre"+"serve" i.e. it's a demo and will remain as such

Post **Posted:** Mon Aug 17, 2015 3:34 am

That was my fav

hope it gets spread on some toast eventually

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 20, 2015 12:27 am

I used the Mr Noah Container Remix for this www.vimeo.com/136766304

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:02 pm

you can fit the album + 2 EPs onto one CD if you delete the duplicate songs + Davy Jones' Locker

callin' it...the Goldilox Zone

edit: might have to delete Shadow Of The Colossus too, to make it all fit

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:28 pm

Totally makin that for the car

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 20, 2015 10:42 pm

Post **Posted:** Thu Aug 20, 2015 10:54 pm

Too cool.

Post **Posted:** Fri Aug 21, 2015 5:22 pm

getting into the atp rehearsal for the first time

really cool raw versions, this side of paradise being my favorite

Post **Posted:** Fri Aug 21, 2015 7:50 pm

The KCRW recording of YCCOM is the best thing to ever grace this earth

Post **Posted:** Sat Aug 22, 2015 7:44 pm

amber wrote:

The KCRW recording of YCCOM is the best thing to ever grace this earth

song was literally my ray of hope last winter during a depression

Post **Posted:** Sun Aug 23, 2015 4:39 am

It makes me cry sometimes tbh

Post **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:35 pm

I know it's old news, but I'm just now getting around to that Cheap Treat remix and it's reeally catchy. So good!

Oh, and...

Sonic boom wrote:

SpritBear wrote:
is that PB remix of Eric Copeland pitch shifted? it must be ! I cannot hear his regular falsetto voice in that at all. Either way, i love it. Been gone for a month or so. glad to be back, y'all ! what'd i miss?

I believe its from transposing the vocal formants
...Shifting from male to female charechteristics .
It's done in a similar way to autotune - thru analysis , editing and resynthesis -
Tho this is obviously more artful that the instant vocaloid fx

.......He told me he spent a lot of time tweaking it to get it convincing...
I think its the bomb .......Il Diva....ha

Is it weird that this makes me picture Panda Bear singing the track in a little dress and pigtails?

...probably not...

Post **Posted:** Tue Aug 25, 2015 1:23 am

I love that Remix so much

Post **Posted:** Tue Aug 25, 2015 11:27 pm

Sonic boom wrote:

Hellomark wrote:
Petek, what was it like when you witnessed Noah in the studio performing the vocals for Cosplay? Did you shed a tear? two perhaps?

Wotcher
Er .....nope ... Sorry .... The reverse ..
Noah's voice usually cracks after an hour or so - he likes to do his vox in the morening....
....so quimbo & I got a super sweet time on those daze , coming round to Noah doing his vocal
takes .....but the icing on the cake got spread when he did the backing harmony parts .....
....often off the cuff .... You can imagine hearing boys latin come together ......

The vocal parts in one of the break downs to Jabba are typical of what he'd do on the intros
or breaks in some songs to keep his voice on , or to warm up before the verse , and on the first take
he'd riff or scat , and each successive take sing a second , third or fourth part .
Noah keeps it pretty light in the studio , the only crying was laughter .....
Once his guard is down , he's very witty .....and pretty silly ....
With a pretty foul mouth .......
It was Noah - who has an hillariously tight ozzy accent - who decided his ozzy nickname would
surely be Nobbo .........ha

this is all so good - we've heard so much about how the music came together, but i'm really interested in how these vox came out.... & i'd love to hear him say 'a dingo ate my ba-by', or maybe do a rippin cover of Warpigs?

A lot of people have mentioned the difference in vocal performance between the live shows and the record. Since reading that PM Dawn and Toms Diner remix were big influences or inspiration for PBVSGR I've always heard this LP with a real 90's remix vibe, & that probably explains much of the feel, neither of those two touchstones feature massive drops or anything.....
I guess im wondering what was Panda's vocal intention here.....? There's really only a subtle shit in dynamics on most tracks on the record - was it supposed to sound like he sampled himself? Are his vocal takes that perfect?
I love this record, and its on headphones i can still hear that live delivery, say on Tropic for instance, but it isn't upfront.... is he that shy?

Post **Posted:** Wed Aug 26, 2015 5:38 am

Pete didn't you say there was a documentary or maybe an article about the recording process of this album? Something like sound on sound? Or did i imagine that?

Post **Posted:** Wed Aug 26, 2015 11:26 am

when the beat drops for crosswords n u lookin away and u start bobbin and then u look at the vid and see panda bobbin just like u

Post **Posted:** Wed Aug 26, 2015 11:32 am

Uh just when I'm about to do something productive, the P4k set gets posted