Collected Animals

clearwaters wrote:

scrapofsassafras wrote:

I keep coming back to Remember Mayan. I find it really soothing? What do y’all suppose it’s about?

Lol I think it's pretty straight forward

Ouch ok! I found it pretty abstract. Different minds I guess.

Straight forward!? What’s it all about Clearwaters? I feel ya scrapofsassafras... my fav of the record and no idea what he’s getting at.

Been on my mind for a while but strikes me as Tirzah-like at times, especially Eyes on Eyes.

Enjoy the change means hocketing best friendship over autotune my new best friend

I've been avoiding listening to the new version of Enjoy the Change like the plague. Though i like Cows I've been having a tough time reconciling how much I loved the approach he used on his previous tours + show at the mothlight (the stripped-down approach of using just electric guitar, drum-pad and synth/sampler) with how the album turned out. For some reason also, even though I love his and AC's acoustic work, love Buoys as well, the decision to switch to acoustic guitar for the album versions of many of these songs was not a welcome change for me. However I just peeped the new version of Enjoy the Change finally and I liked it! Only (minor) complaint at this point is I prefer some of the older lyrics. I thought the new version would bastardize the old version but it doesn't at all. I really hope the studio version doesn't include acoustic guitar lol. I know it's a weird gripe, but I feel like the dark atmosphere around a lot of these songs was removed/lifted via that change from his tour setup to the studio setup he used.

He said he wanted Midnight Special to be on a darker release (than Cows) and there's also word that he's working on putting an EP together. I think Enjoy the Change will be on there and will sound satisfyingly dark.

Anyone notice the connection between the lyrics "What is is-is" and "Eye's on eye's"? It bridges the end of Goodside into the next song.

Avey posted this interview/conversation with the dude from shabazz palaces on insta in case anyone missed it: https://www.talkhouse.com/ish-butler-sh ... e-podcast/

Anyone notice the connection between the lyrics "What is is-is" and "Eye's on eye's"? It bridges the end of Goodside into the next song.

I didnt but i did notice "i can see them smiling" in remember mayan and remembered the same lyric from heather in hospital. I was having trouble remembering enough of HIH to make out what song it was till just now

Up the reds

That talkhouse convo is so good. Im juiced

avey interview from a week ago. He talks art and cartoons

http://www.artnews.com/2019/06/12/anima ... are-muses/

Listening to this again now that it's getting a bit drearier out and it's definitely the season for it...idk why this album didn't stick with me quite as long as i thought it would but it really is great.
Can't wait for the EP

was listening to this driving up upstate new york, wow, hors_ and mayan stick out with the foliage, and tipped in hugs is so fun. fall as FUCK

I listened to this a few more times and got over my eyes on eyes bootlegitis

Also now love lemonade, saturdays, kc yours (loved this after 1st couple listens), taken boy(had a lil acute bootlegitis), mayan and i love hors but the lyrics seem so silly but im feeling sillier lately

now time's passed I can honestly say I don't really like KC Yours, but the rest of the album is excellent. Eyes on Eyes and Taken Boy particularly. And Chilly Blue! so good

now time's passed I can honestly say I don't really like KC Yours, but the rest of the album is excellent. Eyes on Eyes and Taken Boy particularly. And Chilly Blue! so good

derriere was already a beautiful song but for some reason he decided to make it about robots...

yeah derriere chorus is the only thing lost for me in kc yours, it flows better and sounds better than robot bus stop. the only song i dislike is taken boy, i much prefer the mothlight rendition but i can see why maybe he wanted a slower song before the midtempo mayan.

i do think for me the production on KC reminded me of a similar issue that slasher flicks had with Your Card and The Outlaw, where it's just somehow muffled and super slick at the same time - it just feels weird and even as someone who is just by nature and taste a huge anco fanboy, i never really liked it

I still listen to Goodside almost every day. It's my favourite song of the year and is almost certainly one of my top 10 AC-related songs ever made. Something about the contrast between that unapologetically slapping beat and that beautiful and crisp guitar tune just gets me going. I find it hard to listen to the song without air strumming along.

I still listen to Goodside almost every day. It's my favourite song of the year and is almost certainly one of my top 10 AC-related songs ever made. Something about the contrast between that unapologetically slapping beat and that beautiful and crisp guitar tune just gets me going. I find it hard to listen to the song without air strumming along.

Agreed! Goodside and HORS_ are easily some of my top tracks of the year. When that guitar hits midway through Goodside...MAN!

Surprised that I love Goodside (esp as an opening track) considering I wasn't immediately won over by Me and the Bubble at Mothlight and had doubts about it opening the album. How wrong I was!

Saturdays (Again) is still an almost daily listen for me. This album kicks so much ass.

The kazoo in eyes on eyes is quite exquisite i must say

In lemonade when avey said "i want too many clothes" i felt that

I hear mumbling & gibberish in the background of EOE from 1:12 till about 2:30 all i can make out is the frirst thing "close the window, [somethingsomething] for my eyes"

Had a dream i heard a french cover of kc yours

"Im driving in a snowy race" from lemonade. Maybe talking about rally racing? I thought it was "snowy rain" but i like that line a lot either way

Maybe im just high but our little chapter be hittin

"Feels like im wearing a kitty" does he even have a kiitty?

Tipped in hugs i think this is my favorite cows song

Dog says goodbye

Me listening to tipped in hugs for the eleventy billionth time

Comic up on the albums anniversary.. I think it is weirdly a Spring album even tho it has some Fall-ish energy too..

And yeah shoutout to Tipped/Dog single. With Birds EP this is such a sweet collection of songs for Avey..

Our Little Chapter is the one I come back to more than anything. And Hors and Eyes. Eyes took a while to grow but oh man that track. The live recording of it feels pretty loose in a way buts its rad. Kinda prefer the live Mayan on the KC EP, but both are sick.

yeah derriere chorus is the only thing lost for me in kc yours, it flows better and sounds better than robot bus stop. the only song i dislike is taken boy, i much prefer the mothlight rendition but i can see why maybe he wanted a slower song before the midtempo mayan.

Dead on! I absolutely loved the OG chorus of KC

“Old man keep up your fight and old man go take a hike and old man you you know you won’t ever feel right old man you don’t know where you’re going!
Your derrière your derrière in the frosted air”

I’m sure it was one of those things were he just whipped it up for the tour shows but to me it was so powerful!!
Regardless I still love and listen to this album a lot! I love mixing it with PBs homie EP

Whats the goodside has grown on me a lot. I think its written from the perspective of earth but i also think babies are not for milking so you dont have to take my word for it. Ill see you next time!

Hahahah
they're off the milking

They're off the milky

Milk boyz bottlez up! Istill listen to this once a week er so

Damn I just found out the deluxe single tracks ARE on youtube and I've just been lazy/unobservant. I loved Tipped in Hugs.

I only heard thme a few months ago. I liked having the album for a while before hearing them. Its the honeycomb/gotham to COHP

Great find magicman420!
"There's the step number 1"

This album and eucalyptus might be the saddest AC releases, really can’t stand them unless I’m prepared for heavy feels

Hell of a find MagicMan420! Enjoyed that

Wow excellent discovery indeed! Thank you

“Our Little Chapter” is such a beautiful little jewel.

“Our Little Chapter” is such a beautiful little jewel.

I love the vibe of this track. Would love to see a AC album in this style. It makes me think about the "Crystal Palace" Avey mentioned for Feels.

Way underrated for sure

Saturdays FINALLY clicked for me. Night walk in the rain is all it took. Jeez, what a fantastic album.

Saturdays FINALLY clicked for me. Night walk in the rain is all it took. Jeez, what a fantastic album.

Cows is such a rainy album imo. It was very gray and humid the day it came out in my neck of the woods and listening to it for the first time in that environ was perfect