Collected Animals

I think the last time I had this much jealousy over people seeing a tour I couldn't make was the 2011 Avey tour

someone on the subreddit said noah came out during the atlas sound set for walkabout

Wooooah desert daze is gonna be insane

In case no one checked the DD thread apparently AC sound checked

I checked google for animal collective tour, and it interpreted Love Field as being the airport in dallas, so it displayed that the show was happening in Dallas, TX. I thought it was a strange venue but I was super duper hyped for a Dallas show and even told my friend in dallas about it. Then I looked more into it and...

-_- I'm so dumb

please tell me someone else did this

These things happen, don’t be too hard on yourself dude

Nah, im laughing at myself

i think the meow wolf new songs might be a stronger collection. prester john > shine is insanely catchy

Shanedabes on Reddit thinks that Kerosene is called Passerby (saw the name pop up during the song at the same place as Native Belle) and that Shine is Dragon Slayer, saying they distinctly it remember having the “good (k)night shine” chorus at Tucson

i'm not picking favorites but passerby/kerosene is absolutely phenomenal and makes me cry and feels so darn heavy and resonant within myself.. ugh this tour <3

So guys

it's an existential question: are there any new yelps in your 40s

The Pulleys Jam: Extending Pulling edition is so good. So glad they play that one as much as they do

I checked google for animal collective tour, and it interpreted Love Field as being the airport in dallas, so it displayed that the show was happening in Dallas, TX. I thought it was a strange venue but I was super duper hyped for a Dallas show and even told my friend in dallas about it. Then I looked more into it and...

-_- I'm so dumb

please tell me someone else did this

You ain’t alone...my wife did the same thing and got me so psyched that I ended up driving all the way to Tulsa (from Houston) once my bubble got burst. But hey, they premiered an album in an airport, how much of a stretch would it be to play a show on the tarmac? I’m sure they could work the jet engine noise into the set...

is there a boot of the meow wolf show on here somewhere?

edit: found it buried in this thread lol

I’ve seen this band probably around 25 times at this point, and I’m still trying to process what I experienced last night. I saw them a handful of times pre-MPP release, then once that record came out, and then during CHz and PW. Each album cycle it felt like they were changing, but not necessarily getting “better”. That’s not to say that they felt like they were getting worse either, just different. But last night was a big step up. The musicianship is just on another level now. The vocals sound fantastic, the arrangements full (and full of emotion). The crowd felt undeniably hooked. In the past, particularly at festivals, I’d always look around and feel like the crowd was sorta into it, but the non-diehards were hanging on by a thread. This has changed. I’ve never seen a crowd so immediately jiving with new material, and I’ve definitely not felt such a connection between the crowd and band during the classics.

In short, I really think the magic is back, and at a higher level.

Hey I have a question, but I need to preface it by saying I am absolutely not complaining or trying to be an asshole, but I feel like at the beginning of this year the dudes talked about doing some special shit for MPP's 10th, and, while the boots and footage from this week's shows have been like on a whole other level, they're only really giving the MPP era 2-3 songs a night and like again these jams sound and look amazing, but I guess I assumed there'd be something more substantially connected to MPP.

is some whole other level shit in the pipeline, or is the power of live the big 10th birthday gift unto itself or maybe we should keep our fingers crossed for some next level rad shit before the end of the year, or did something crazy and amazing happen like four months ago that I somehow missed?

So guys

Spoiler: show

Native Belle totally rips. It's so cool to hear them playing something like that so faithful to the original wild energy.

Which makes me think... I really like the new stuff, but it just seems kind of tame overall. i didnt really expect to say this, but its not weird enough for me i dont think. I know they have it in them to play wilder, looser, more idk psychedelic? i know that energy is possible because of how well theyre playing native belle. Maybe it has to do with the fact that the tour just started, the material is new. the painting with stuff really loosened up over time

I listened to the 2004 Cats Cradle boot earlier and hearing Kids on Holiday and Banshee Beat was just spectacular, but it made me miss that kind of looseness. I know this is no new sentiment around here. its just fresh on my mind after listening to the new boots / knowing that they are still interested in playing like that to some extent

i'm not 100% but this tour is just a regular tour as they did in the past (although much shorter), to roadtest some new material before recording. definitely not MPP anniversary celebrations at all. (which would be awesome!) and was never officially announced as such so shouldn't be so disappointing.... if they said something it was probably an idea they were having or their plans simply changed, who knows.

but yeah i saw someone else sad it wasn't a greatest hit type set and i was like where did that get announced ?!?

also pretty sure you didnt miss anything, they just havent done it yet. (if at all )

In January they teased “we hope to release some other MPP related sounds and sights over the next couple of months...” but yeah, I definitely don’t recall ever thinking that would tie-in with this tour.

It’d be cool to see what Josh might add to some of those tracks but I can’t say I’m not 1000x more excited by the additions of the other tracks we’ve seen so far!

Hopefully once this tour wraps up we might get something like a soundboard recording from some MPP era shows.

Tru tru

Can’t stress enough how stoked I am about all the stuff happening out west this week! Love it love it love it!! Just making sure I didn’t miss something, and to be sure, my only source is the January announcement they had made about doing something special. Frankly new shit is way more special than anything else we could ask for - especially a greatest hits set - new life stuff all day ever day!

Another MPP soundboard would be lit!

❤ can't wait for Defeat on Fallon

a lot of the songs sound like lounge music. but man do I love strangers and gem and I.

roark's meow wolf bootleg, split

Spoiler: show

2019-10-08
Meow Wolf, Santa Fe, NM, USA
1. In the Flowers
2. 24
3. Prester John
4. [Shine]
5. [banter]
6. Native Belle
7. [Kerosene]
8. Defeat (A Not Suite)
9. On a Highway
10. [banter]
11. [Once Again]
12. [Out There]
13. Grass
14. [encore break]
15. Banshee Beat
16. Cherokee
https://www.mediafire.com/?zku39k9m0fx1nf6

i didn't have a ton of time with this so i'm sorry if there are any mistakes. my titles on 4, 7 and 12. happy to change them once we see another setlist

thank you both!

Spoiler: show

just realized what the new Downdowndown reminds me of, I feel like it would be right at home on Spirit of Eden or Laughingstock. Something about those jazzy chords and Noah's understated drumming... so fucking good.

Holy mackerel the thought of that is blowing my mind.

I also recorded the Takako Minekawa and Dustin Wong set which sounds pretty good but the levels are a little funky because I was trying to get it right for the AC set. I can split and normalize it to the best of my ability if anyone is interested

Yes dear

think we're still waiting on a full desert daze setlist but currently it looks like new panda song "appreciate/out there" was only played once. feeling spoiled by the other titles and wish we had an official one for this song

holy shit passerby is fucking magic

wowee ok I finally got around to these and this stuff is nuts. its like trippy psych-lounge proggy like dad-rock style melancholy + the weirdness Avey's autotune adds.

this new Prester John is rad but its different enough where we're gonna need some release of the New Orleans version.

Passerby and Cherokee are standing out. end of Passerby is massive. I dont think ive heard the Dragon one, not sure...

this is gonna be their jazz-damaged classic rock dirge album, but its also like plastic soul reggae or some shit idk

also its been super fun listening to all the recordings this tour so thanks to all who made it possible my faves are strangers, defeat & kings

Yea thank you to all who recorded this tour. Still have to digest this so just wanted to express the gratitude.

Cherokee has such a hype ass middle part/climax wow... reminds me slightly of Contra or Mvoc Vampire Weekend a touch.

its like beautiful, hype and almost like sexy in a way AC doesn't often try to be. this autotune is a pretty sweet development. it was only a matter of time, and some of the Vox processing has already been relatively similar anyway.

also these like vibraphone-y( and marimba-y maybe?) and like bell vibe that is cropping up weirdly makes me think of Wowee Zowee Pavement

and new Prester John reminds me of the Suicide is Painless M*A*S*H theme song lol, or like the new melody at least. but then it flows into the old chorus' 'kept its fast. I dig it but yeah, for second time, I def still need the OG version. its like 2 totally different songs...

Had such a blast back at Fernwood with a few CAers for the Big Sur show. Would’ve loved to have kept hanging out with intermittent AC occurrences (a la the camping weekend).

New prestor John sounds like old prestor John and Sunset had a baby. Except that old.prestor John is still a lil better despite the fact that Sunset is the best AC track in years

Had such a blast back at Fernwood with a few CAers for the Big Sur show. Would’ve loved to have kept hanging out with intermittent AC occurrences (a la the camping weekend).

Agreed! Was a blast hanging with everyone. Hope we can all reconnect sometime.

I'm sure this has been answered elsewhere but you'll have to forgive me for asking again. Too many threads.

ALAS:

Are all song titles on this tour official?