[BulimicVegetarian]

Omg this is so sweet and amazing. Gotta love those dudes.

[archie]

Stanshant wrote:

archie wrote:

as an australian who just ended a 6 month stint of heavy psychedelic use yesterday with an overwhelming amount of dmt that made me break down completely, and who struck a meaningful and inseparable relationship to the australian environment and ecosystem, a psychedelic album cover called eucalyptus by avey is too synchronicized to not be real. uhhrhrrhhrhh what the fuck is happening!!!!!!! i can see u i can see u i can see u

Mate, I can really recommend a cup of tea, just the regular bag of dust shit, don't go too deep with a roasted oolong or aged sheng pu'erh, just plain old Yorkshire or Tetley's or Typhoo. Couple of Tim Tams and a bath. Lots of love to you and all Animal Collective family here. I can't believe this is happening like this and so soon. Good old Dave.

hahahahahhaahahahahhahhah

[archie]

the first time i hear this album im gonna simultaneously play 5 different terence mckenna lectures on youtube. only true way to really see what he meant i reckon

[IkoOvo]

fuuuuuuuck

[lucasmoreira]

so happy, great news!

my only question is how they find time to work on all this stuff????

[kafkaesque]

hooooooooraaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!! eucalyptus is an incredible album name! super psyched!

[Dallou]

now we wait

[Tropic]

Would love a single in the next few days but knowing Domino we'll probably get one in October

[real slippi]

so excited - this is next level awesome news!

[svilla]

Tropic of Cans wrote:

Would love a single in the next few days but knowing Domino we'll probably get one in October

Knowing Domino we'll get a song with the announcement of the album (probably some time in the coming week/later today) and the album late August, early Sept.

[diatomatix]

wikipedia speaking here but did anyone realize ::
((credit to my main squeeze for this tidbit of info))


"Some eucalyptus species have attracted attention from horticulturists, global development researchers, and environmentalists because of desirable traits such as being fast-growing sources of wood, producing oil that can be used for cleaning and as a natural insecticide, or an ability to be used to drain swamps and thereby reduce the risk of malaria."


<3333333333333
THE SWAMP

HAS

BEEN

DRAINED
<3333333333333


(Please hedge trump jokeS)

[jfw7]

diatomatix wrote:

hedge trump jokeS

[rohcti]

Lol omg

[thebackdrifter]

I definitely pre-ordered avey's stuff but I have moved since then (feels bad man) Still hoping I get one.

[jetski]

So has this freebirded yet

[speen]

Pitchfork already reviewed it, 6/10, too much water, not enough magic

[jfw7]

just got one of these in the mail... eerie

[Stanshant]

Nice one. Skills.

[destiny]

Ohhh that is fucking hilarious

[dio]

hm ya downside now is that before this i wasn't expecting anything necessarily or like maybe not for another whole year. but now? now im anxious for a date/single/my own puzzle etc. great thanks avey.

[scrambledgreggs]

I can't believe how much quality stuff they've been giving us lately, 2 fantastic EPs (one of them pretty much album-length) within a few months of each other and now what might be a double solo album, not to mention a fantastic tour still in progress. AC really are the gift that keeps on giving!

[TB8S]

This is looking to be one of the best years for Animal Collective fans in a long while, and they year is only half over.

[roopn]

I can't sleep, really really want an announcement

[jetski]

Prob too soon to speculate abt this but I wonder what this means for AC's convention of cycling between full band/solo album mode. Let's say Avey releases this within the next 6 months (feel like that's a reasonable estimate), maybe Panda releases something within the next year since he said he has ~30 min of new music pretty much finished, could that mean that within 2 years AC will head back into their next album cycle? prob with Deaks on board?

This still assume a lot tho, from what ppl have posted here and on the subreddit it sounds like Panda's new album is finished, but that could just mean the songs are written but still need to be recorded/mixed maybe? Plus Panda will prob want to solo tour, Avey will presumably tour behind this album, so it could be a bit longer before AC starts up. Like I said too soon to tell, but I would be so damn psyched if we actually got another AC album by say, 2019 (weird to think about an AC album released in 2019 lol)

In the meantime tho I'm very psyched about EUCALYPTUS and patiently awaiting official announcement

[TB8S]

They were pretty consistent for releasing albums 2-3 years apart for a while, 04, 05, 07, 09, 12. There were four years between CHz and PW which makes me think this next cycle may be shorter. 2019 sounds pretty realistic.

[meys]

jfw7 wrote:

just got one of these in the mail... eerie

incredible deep cut

[jetski]

TB8S wrote:

They were pretty consistent for releasing albums 2-3 years apart for a while, 04, 05, 07, 09, 12. There were four years between CHz and PW which makes me think this next cycle may be shorter. 2019 sounds pretty realistic.

That's kinda my thinking. The fact that Panda says he already has a whole new collection of songs and Avey's album is coming v soon almost makes me think that they wanna power thru the solo album cycle instead of taking a long time before the next AC album. Then again could just be wishful thinking on my part. I'm probably getting ahead of myself since Avey's album hasn't been been officially announced yet

[speen]

The album cover could be a reference to the electronic / classical albums released on Nonesuch in the late 60s and early 70s. They all had that sort of framed psychedelic image cover, with a similar font. I work in a library that has a huge music collection so let me see if I can find one of the records I'm thinking of and take a picture

Edit: the exact record I was thinking of is unfortunately in storage at our huge annex facility, but I found a picture of it on the goog:

[destiny]

meysell wrote:

jfw7 wrote:

just got one of these in the mail... eerie

incredible deep cut

i still think it's so amazing that they jacked the chz sound b4 it was released

[destiny]

ahh the geologist set and the many "IS THIS MOONJOCK"(s)

[dio]

since this is on the longer side (is it a double..?) i wonder if some of its material goes back to that time that Avey was said in one interview to be working on like 3 albums all at once, around the time right before Slasher came out? It seems like when they get together as a band, that shit draws on very specific writing sessions whereas solo stuff can kind of take years to develop. omg i want this i wonder when the time-frame for a release even is tho... like if this week is this cool announcement then like maybe hard info and maaaaaybe a single next week? and like record in july (via sports in july). im so ready now

[speen]

Don't bet on it being a long album until we see the track times, for all we know there's a bunch of tiny interludes. I'm having flashbacks to being disappointed that Davy Jones Locker and Shadow of the Colossus ended up being meaningless blorps of sound instead of cool unheard songs

[dio]

meaningless blorps of sound... sounds very much like something someone would say who has never heard a single ac album. like yr surprised by this.

think if we derail and start talking abt panda again this will just strait up get dropped/freebirded early?

[scrambledgreggs]

I would guess an august or september release date at the earliest, feel free to prove me wrong Domino

[jfw7]

Diomedes wrote:

meaningless blorps of sound... sounds very much like something someone would say who has never heard a single ac album. like yr surprised by this.

there's really no equivalent in the rest of the discography is there? terrestrial tones maybe?

colossus is the shortest song on my (outdated?) animal collective playlst

[Stanshant]

A complete fucking waste of time, basically. Unnecessary Sonic Boom influence. It's like taking Geo's marvellous work at the end of Unsolved Mysteries and calling it a separate track, except SHITE.

[hotdogdan]

Thinking outside of the box=the right side of the box.
Somebody should put that puzzle together and see if there's a release date on the back. Takes me about ten hrs to put together a 1000 piecer.

[lhtd]

Alrighty which one of these is Slow Words

[lucasmoreira]

yeah demonclusters, I believe that cover is definite an inspiration, for me that art reflects pretty well the new songs.

not sure if a lot of the coral thing will be on this album since they officially release the titles for that project and they are not the same here, and those sounds where made with geo and deakin and their names are not included on the puzzle.

hope some material from 2011 or even grasslands (still hoping...) can appear here in some form.

also my guess is the tracklist is right side of the box, front, left, and back, I think makes more sense like these:

Spoiler: show

In Pieces
Selection of a Place
Boat Race
Roamer
Lunch Out of Order Pt 1
Lunch Out of Order Pt 2
Jackson 5
Dr Aw One For J
PJ
Season High
Melody Unfair
Ms. Secret
Coral Lords
Sports In July
When You Left Me

[scrambledgreggs]

there's no way the two parts of "Lunch Out of Order" are in order