Collected Animals

In a negative review, Lee Arizuno of The Quietus called the album "absolute dogshit from start to finish", repeatedly describing each song as "a sing-song number with faux–naïf lyrics ... and EDM belches".[30] Adam Downer of Paste compared it to the "legion of small-time blog bands in the early 2010s ... who could do a decent facsimile of the Animal Collective sound but lacked the intangibles to garner their acclaim ... [the album is] not very noteworthy, the band nowhere close to fulfilling its potential. The scariest thing Painting With leaves behind is the feeling that Animal Collective think that’s perfectly fine."[31]

the quietus can do good work but that review is a joke. like oh yeah now you have a problem with the silly aliases, but you still look at their past work with spielberg face? the people who write reviews like that think they're speaking truth to power, but it's always more about historical expectations than the actual content of the music. take away the history and they wouldn't have this anger. that review is just masturbation with begging for money at the end, it is disgusting.

I think Painting With gets a better reception because - by design - it seems quite disposable, frivolous and frothy. There's almost nothing on the whole record which either moves me or attempts to move me. On those grounds, it succeeded as a bouncy, funtime, airhead kind of record. I think it's pretty weak relative to everything they've ever done, including Centipede Hz, but my preference/prejudice almost doesn't allow for this kind of record. It's an experimental left turn for Animal Collective in that it abandons much of what makes them so special to me and tries to do something different. I respect that, I just don't want to listen to it again.

CHz felt like the first time they genuinely missed the target and got muddled. I don't feel they were on the same page at all but they were trying very hard to make it work. There are moments of dazzling brilliance but holistically, it felt like the result of effort rather than inspiration.

Man I love painting with too, maybe except for bagels, florida, vertical & burglurs

What demos are y’all talkin’ about? What’s happening?? Besides grainy grass?

h8 to bring it back to MPP but if they played those songs on record like they did live holy shit

In any event here's all the Tangerine Reef studio demo's, split up and organized.

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Oh damn, ok re-upped it here

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