Collected Animals

to get inside your head!

if there's never a vol 2 I don't know why they'd say volume 1!

yo avey and geo are gonna do summer/fall eveeeentually, prbly like in '17 or '18, callin it. seems like pb and deaks would step up to bat, but avey alrdy implied its a dave-n-brian endevour

Bumping this old badboy.

Geo posted this on the GvB takeover today, sounds to me like some of the vocals sampled in Stretching Songs

http://www.gorillavsbear.net/animal-col ... ck-mr-joy/

this song is aweeesome, love the GvB take-over so much. and ya it sounds like some of her vocals could be in there with tickly feather person's, not sure

you guys, i like "tape player chants for winter" more than all of PW. ):
I actually really love that some of their best stuff (for me) falls into some strange lost gems category a la the unreleased avey solo tour stuff, glasslands..etc, amazing.

i'm sad that the unreleased avey tour stuff is so rough and difficult to hear/listen to. i've really tried recently, but it's hard to get too much out of it. it's nice, but it's hard to really want to go back to very often for me.

is the boot really that bad? actually dont even have it on this pc right now but it sure did get me through fall '11...there's some decent vids of it... the best ones are the tracks actually on the album, but this one isn't that bad
who knows this stuff could still be alive and will show up on the next avey thing (if a tru solo album happens again, feel like the guy rlly likes working with other ppl/slasher). could b slasher songs!

talking abt these songs in 2 threads now lol. #nvr4get

i'm sad that the unreleased avey tour stuff is so rough and difficult to hear/listen to. i've really tried recently, but it's hard to get too much out of it. it's nice, but it's hard to really want to go back to very often for me.

You're crazy

Knitting Factory boot is a great performance and a quality recording. If you've heard this and you're saying shit like that consider yourself foe'd

not sure i have but i have like 4 boots of it and have listented a lot. it's all uber murky and messy. i'll check out that link, feel free to foe me.

It's gonna have to wait until I know for sure

none of em say "Knitting Factory" on the label so i'm not quite sure

Link to DaD's recording was fuckt in my post. Here it is legit, NYC taper link works in that other post. Unspoil it
http://two-sails.blogspot.com/2011/12/a ... 22011.html

thanks i'll check it out

avey just told ethmin on the ama that he "probably will not record" the dt tour songs but might put a practice recording from before that tour on the site so thats pretty cool

yep: "I probably will never record those songs but I do have a practice session from right before the tour which I've thought about mastering and just putting up on the website. Eric is the man."


that practice session sounds sweet though!!



(great question Ethmin!!)

ja knitting factory boot is wicked

Just bought the Talk Talk single "Such a Shame" off of their It's My Life record and realized Avey copped the album art for his "Tape Player Chants for Winter" track on New Psycho Actives, Vol. 1! Groovy.

oh sick find. adding a garbage pail kid to another sleeve (and a candle) is a nice way of re-purposing that cover

i actually thought of this release for the first time in a while since the weather is finally changing. sick track. "let's hear it for winter"

Took a long time for me to realize it, but this is one of the best AC releases this decade

WWWIIIIIIIINNNNNNNTTTEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Took a long time for me to realize it, but this is one of the best AC releases this decade

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Yeah this release is really something else. I like how it sorta feels like they made this without any regard for being able to recreate it live, like it was just something each of them recorded at home for fun and decided to release after the fact. I also love how Avey's side in particular feels like it's telling a story by stringing together all these little vignettes.

I've probably posted about this before but does anyone else have vivid imagery associated with Tape Player Chants for Winter? I imagine it as this cartoon character navigating through all these snowy scenes. The beginning is just him playing in the snow, but when it transitions to the third section I imagine the character tumbling into a snow bank and it's like a blizzard is starting up. Or like the part halfway through, I like to imagine he's going into a cave with a bunch of bats in it to escape the snow. The slow reggae section is like him plodding through the snow and getting stuck again, and the ending with Bobby's loop is sort of like the sun coming out and melting the snow

The whole thing has to be my favorite use of samples by Avey, it's so weird and funny and evocative. I love Geo's side a lot too, but Tape Player Chants never gets old for me

i hope they release more stuff that's similar to this... something not-so-serious and heavier on the weird side of things. i imagine avey and geo have lots of unreleased stuff that may never reach the light of day

Is there a place to download this? Wanna experience the chillz again

I'll be honest I enjoyed listening to this a couple times when it came out, but I wasn't really captivated by it

It's been a bit maddening that these all don't live in one place (soundcloud be damned). ACs essentially released an album over the course of the past decade but it's a pain in the ass to actually experience them together in one sitting. I may not have time to listen to it today myself but I've found a relatively simple way to assemble this as a continuous group of tunes.

Open Bug Mall first since it won't come up through search. Pause it, click the next up icon in the lower right-hand corner<turn off autoplay station<search for the prior song<click the 'more icon' and 'add to next up<etc. The next up feature will let you drag and drop the songs in the proper order

Tape Player Chants for Winter
Stretching Songs for Spring
Summer Blaze
Autumn Rites
Bug Mall

I think Summer Blaze and Autumn Rites in particular scratch the Defeat-itch!

Cheers mate, not really listened to any of them after Stretching Songs.

Oh Stan I think you'd really dig Summer and Autumn. Return to primal form for the guys during a weird period of their work.

Cheers mate, not really listened to any of them after Stretching Songs.

They get hugely better after that one haha

Cheers fellas, I will be blasting these on the drive tomorrow.

Nothing against 'em but Tape Player is more of a demo to me and Stretching Songs feels more like a Tickley Feather song than AC. Real strength of what follows is it's Avey and Geo together. Really deserves at least as much attention as Bridge to Quiet and Meeting of the Waters.

Thanks for the primer Fovrodi - crazy how un-intuitive it is!

I wish they would get a digital release