Collected Animals

basically what everyone else has said. deakin's voice on golden chords is super emotive, super fragile sounding. i haven't even looked at the lyrics yet for any of the songs. honestly pretty scared to, knowing how heavy they're going to be. i'm not sure what i'm getting at, really. this album feels important to me, more important than any other AC release in the recent past, and i'm looking forward to spending more time with it.

can confirm this is an absolutely amazing album to hear when afflicted by the devils lettuce

I love it! I need to listen more, and im very excited to do that! I'll just poop out some of my 1st impression thoughts here. Absolutely gorgeous and emotional, dudes and golden gals! Reminds me of some earlier AC, but u know, it's totally its own thing. I feel like basically every aspect of each song is really fully realized. I love the production, and I think that deak might have the most melodic, airiest voice of all our beautiful boyz! This proves what a great songwriter he is. Very spiritual-feeling to me. Love how it goes all over in terms of energy, like very very calm in parts, to almost overwhelming and fast as hell in others! I could've easily listened to something twice as long, I would LOVE it if he released something longer. DEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKK!!!! Well, that's about enough gushing for now haha. Love u animulllz!!!

P.S. I feel like maybe good house is a reference to banshee beat? i remember josh said somewhere that that song had a really profound emotional effect on him.

The length and structure of the tracklist is one of this album's greatest strengths. Perfect amount of time for listening to the whole thing before bed or after waking up

Wow, I just went back through this whole subforum here and it seems like there's so much love! Deak, ur the best! I love what you said about communication! The internet is so crazy! Things get garbled, and tone is lost completely. Sometimes I'm just joking around, but there's no way to convey that. I've never said anything here in the forum that is mean-spirited, but i have exaggerated my true feelings for comedic effect, and sometimes that can confuse others. What i'm trying to say is that when I said i wanted to kiss you and your bandmates that one time, I was just screwing around! I swear! I'd be happy with a hug!

"DAD I CAN'T SEE, I LOST MY VOICE I NEED DIRECTION/I'VE WEIGHED EACH CHOICE SO MANY TIMES I'VE LOST REFLECTION"

My god that is some heavy shit. I'm in awe. These songs just get better and better, the whole album stands alongside the very best ac releases pretty easily. The fact that it's so short almost seems cruel, but it's also just works so well. It says everything it needs to say and suddenly vanishes, like a vivid good dream.

i've been thinking about this part a lot too. reminds me of that one show.

want it all to be good.

Listened to Just Am 4 times this morning. Would live to have this on vinyl. Thanks for the music & vibes Deakin.

(Also found myself singing the boxer soon after without knowing why but now i understand haha)

Listened to Just Am 4 times this morning. Would live to have this on vinyl. Thanks for the music & vibes Deakin.

(Also found myself singing the boxer soon after without knowing why but now i understand haha)

Haha, glad I'm not the only one. (I am leaving, I am leaving but the fighter still remains)

i know people say these things shouldn't be compared, but this release has such depth and real emotion that are missing from PW and this is the kind of music i hoped AC would still be doing. i really hope they'll go next to more this direction and maybe get sonic boom to produce the next ac album...

and yeah, there's no plans for vinyl, but maybe time to start those plans, deak. this is so good it deserves to be on vinyl. another kickstarter maybe?

Can't wait to hear this... when I get home! Haha am I right @Deakin

Can't wait to hear this... when I get home! Haha am I right @Deakin

nice one

beatles vibes on golden chords? good house too but maybe not as much

Breathe in without
Breathe out you're alright
Breathe in with all
Spit out all that raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaage

You're safe now don't fight
Your body's engaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaageeeeeeeeeeeeed !

beatles vibes on golden chords? good house too but maybe not as much

yah heavy

Breathe in without
Breathe out you're alright
Breathe in with all
Spit out all that raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaage

You're safe now don't fight
Your body's engaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaageeeeeeeeeeeeed !

you'refollowingangels

Oh this is my fav AC release since ODDSAC

Deakin delivered us such sweetness
anxiety lost

Truly, "GOOD HOUSE"

lol Good House just sounds like we all going to Deakin's house and getting high as fuck after a stressful time



this album's really nice. Golden Chords is great, he sounds so much like George Harrison on it (especially like the song "Long, Long, Long" but the song itself isn't like that song, more like Here Comes the Sun or something). Good House could almost be a George song too.



with how much ambient stuff and candid-sounding dialogue is on here it does seem a bit like ODDSAC. Also with the broad range of sounds and styles.

My first listen was almost like hearing a time capsule but not even just back six years... further to Here Comes the Indian and Campfire Songs and Strawberry Jam and other early AC music, and further again to some kind of magical '60s psych folk time

Footy is really disorienting to me, once the vocals drop out the instrumental is so dense and noisy I can barely remember the melody by the time it's over. Definitely the most challenging track of the album. I'm loving every other track so with time I'll get a handle on Footy

seriously, it takes 'wall of sound' to the next level
it's like the angriest most fucked up parts of HCTI but scarier

hmm it didn't seem that scary to me, I think Panic and Hey Light are scarier

Golden chords is probably the most beautiful song I've heard in years, honestly
I wanna cry it's so pretty, honest, and vulnerable

10/10 great job deak

And footy is INCREDIBLE. JAM. CITY.

I feel like Good House ( <3 <3 <3 <3) is like like likeWWIWS Pt2, wich is one of my favourite AC tracks fo sho. on repeat on repeat on repeat

I wonder if deakin expected people to like it THIS MUCH

it's crazy that this has 3.99 on rateyourmusic so far (not that crazy maybe) is there any reviews out yet? yes, I do care about reviews and I really hope that this album get the love that it deserves.

if deakin get some time off he should do a AMA here. i'm really curious how he is reacting to all the praise and love for this

my favorite song for now is just am. it really clicked the first time I listened to it and it got even better when I read along the the lyrics. tbh I never liked wide eyed and I never listened to the bootlegs so this album was a HUGE SURPRISE for me

thanks josh, this is love.

seed song into good house is magical

I love wide eyed

seed song into good house is magical

that might be my favorite part of the album

Wide Eyed, for me, suffered a bit from being adapted to CHz. The acoustic version is brilliant, like a different song, albeit one more like the original live version.

this is affecting me so much more than i could've hoped for. gonna go down as a classic.

yes. Wide Eyed has a great melody and is one of the better CHZ tracks for me but the acoustic version does alot more justice to the melodies.

I really hope Josh realizes how good this album is, and how many love it brings to us. or at least me.

am i the only one who got a slight carrie & lowell vibe from golden chords? something about one of the melodies... awesome stuff.

yes! same.

The part with the piano in Just Am reminded me a little of Futile Devices, probably because it's similarly haunting but wonderful.

his voice on the first track esp reminds me of sufjan too

Country Report and that beautiful acoustic Deakin song from TTG that isnt the Good House excerpt make a great 2 track epilogue to this... is there a name for that TTG song? its fucking gorgeous and the highlight of TTG for me.

For me, the biggest thing I hear from Golden Chords, as well as Deakin's songwriting in general, is good ol' Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac. Particularly his albums Under the Skin & Gift of Screws.

Country Report and that beautiful acoustic Deakin song from TTG that isnt the Good House excerpt make a great 2 track epilogue to this... is there a name for that TTG song? its fucking gorgeous and the highlight of TTG for me.

we'd simply been calling that song 'guggenheim jam'

also isn't there a studio 2Friends floating around some where? wouldn't mind getting my big meaty claws on that ish

yeah here ya go! it's really good: http://pitchfork.com/news/48842-listen- ... ayer-comp/