Collected Animals

my 3 favs so far are Defeat, dragon slayer, and strangers. hope magicians from baltimore comes back !

Yeah I will be sad if we don't hear a finished or even a demo version Magicians form Baltimore ever.

almost as sad as I still am about Song for Jerome


EDIT: listening to meow wolf boot for first time and am hearing "(once again)" for the first time-------- is that Deakin? legit sounds like it could be him or Avey at different moments. breath taking. holy shit my brain is being massaged.

Geo and Deak mini interview (no link provided in the post, seems contained in two IG clips) with KCRW. Can’t watch right now at the airport

Next page’d could someone confirm if they drop any juicy deets? It’s a short interview, but they mention the new album.

The second half of Passerby is the best thing they've done in years and if Avey doesn't keep that vocal effect in the studio I will drive my car off the grand canyon

Also nothing too juicy in that interview, Geo just mentions that they're playing new stuff but haven't recorded any of it yet, and that they've all been listening to a lot of jazz recently. Which I think we've all picked up on just from hearing the boots.

The second half of Passerby is the best thing they've done in years and if Avey doesn't keep that vocal effect in the studio I will drive my car off the grand canyon

literally same, i'll hop in the passenger seat with ya

was EXTREMELY weirded out when i heard this stuff live for the first time, especially since the first one i heard was gem and i directly after banshee beat, but the more i listen the more i love it. sooooo excited for passerby and kings. some really fun sounding jams (strangers, cherokee) too.

I feel like Cherokee would be a cool opener, thoughts?

I feel like Cherokee would be a cool opener, thoughts?

Here's what I'm thinking: Cherokee is track 2, and KINGS is track 1. I think that would be perfect.

Slippi's Applesauce wrote:

I feel like Cherokee would be a cool opener, thoughts?

Here's what I'm thinking: Cherokee is track 2, and KINGS is track 1. I think that would be perfect.

This is also my guess, I'm betting on an opening sequence of Kings > Cherokee > 24. Would be such a cool shakeup for the opening of an AC album, every album opener has been a big important track since at least Feels.

Panda Bear trap beats

well well well

and hope this song is not dead:

GOD SAME that song was so amazing. but I feel like... the point of the tour was partly to try out other new songs, and they got to try that one out already/perfect it.

I'm really thinking theres a double album on the way..... SO much to chew on.

trying my hand at a dream track list from all we have
Bolder just works too well as an Amanita style closer. as beautiful as Defeat is its impossible to place so i did my best

Fuck yes Bolder is closer af

I imagine Defeat coming out separately to the album, on the follow up EP. only due to it's length and the possibly unwieldy nature that brings to an album flow

I imagine Defeat coming out separately to the album, on the follow up EP. only due to it's length and the possibly unwieldy nature that brings to an album flow

idk! Sufjan did it successfully! but he also did stick the long one on the end

haha that's right. wow i wanna listen to age of adz now

Bolder just works too well as an Amanita style closer. as beautiful as Defeat is its impossible to place so i did my best

Wow I don't see the similarity at all, Amanita is such an epic, winding closer, while Bolder feels like a lighthearted simple tune. We'll see how it ends up sounding in studio though (I feel like every single comment related to the new stuff includes that sentence lol).

Gem and I and Bolder were paired up for the shows on the 11th and 13th (neither were played on the 12th), maybe they'll stick with that..?

Also I think a proper double album really isn't far fetched. Sung Tongs through Centipede Hz were all pressed on two records; they'd just be filling up that extra twentyish minutes of space. Using just the new songs they've been playing live, I'm thinking something like...

Geo and Deak mini interview (no link provided in the post, seems contained in two IG clips) with KCRW. Can’t watch right now at the airport

They went on a cleanse and drank a lot of music smoothies. And theres a clip of a song that goes "i am a soap"

what if prester john v1 is on avey's new EP

THE PATH ? i would cry. also let dragon slayer maybe be the opener and defeat be the closer. please let defeat be the closer.

the new material just keeps growing on me so much, and the demoitis from music box defeat is fading away and i am totally loving this new version now! all the material is so good i feel like if i tried to pick my favorites i could only narrow it down to like 8 or 9 songs, that's when you know it's gonna be a great album lol

Using just the new songs they've been playing live, I'm thinking something like...

Spoiler: show

Side A

1. Kings
2. Cherokee
3. 24
4. Stride Right

Side B

1. Strangers
2. Passerby
3. Dragon Slayer
4. Appreciate

Side C

1. Gem and I
2. Bolder
3. Down Down Down
4. Prester John

Side D

1. Defeat

^man that is great sequencing, would love to hear a fan edit of all the new tracks in that order

also, is appreciate a new fan title or an official title for 'out there' that i missed? all the others are confirmed official titles now, right?

damn guys that second half passerby

I'm a passerby
Sweet talkin, ladies found me
I would try
I like to cry
They carry the bottle, why
Exit and it clears
The world around me, crazy
But I wouldn't miss
A moment's bliss

I'm the passerby
Truth talkin, lady found me
I would try
I have to pry
They carry the bottle, why
Exit kinda brisk
World around me, crazy
But I wouldn't miss
A moment's bliss

;')

Y'all are wild for thinking about Kings as an opener tbh

Yeah kings is definitely a mid-album post-downdowndown eye-opener for the second half of the album

i love the autotune as a live feature, where a little looseness is expected, but i'm intrigued to see what it becomes as a studio tool when it needs to be so controlled and tight to be perfect. it seems like there's a lot of room there to fuck it up, in either the good way or the bad way. i don't want it to be conceptually or sonically thin

Ya I don't know how much of it they'll even bring to the studio. The vocal effects on Buoys ended up being quite modest compared to the live counterpart. It sounds great on Bolder, for example, but think it would come off as goofy on something like Down Down in studio. We'll see.

dude i actually love it on downdowndown. The autotune is so fucking good in Cherokee, the chords at the end

Never thought they’d be making a song like Kings at this point, so gorgeous

it seems like there's a lot of room there to fuck it up, in either the good way or the bad way. i don't want it to be conceptually or sonically thin

Conceptual thinness is a really good way of putting it, and I think it's something that great artists in their later careers are somewhat prone to *cough*theflaminglips*cough*

avery tare just called me and said defeat will be its own allbum and its accompanying EP will be defeat again. the other album is cornpilled.

they need to record magicians from baltimore! that magnolia part is so sweet

My dad works at animal collective and he told me the only thing theyre ever going to release again is various versions of defeat between 20 minutes and 2 hours

listening to the boots and im really really excited for what they're gonna do with this stuff. the magic is back babyyy

i was kind of concerned for a bit after seeing them at desert daze when they opened with banshee beat (which was absolutely beautiful) and went straight into gem and i... i was not digging it AT ALL. i thought it sounded like carnie dub music lmao, then they did bolder, which got my attention, then passerby launched me into the sun. revisiting this and im loving the direction they're heading in.

damn cant imagine not digging gem and i on first listen, thats one of my favorite new ones

damn cant imagine not digging gem and i on first listen, thats one of my favorite new ones

dont get me wrong, i dig it a lot now, but after abstaining from listening to the boots and hearing the melancholy of banshee beat in a stoned daze, getting snapped out of it by three snare clicks followed by synth plunks, dub drums, and panda's live voice (NNNguuudaaSAAAWWNUHHHgraaaaa) was not what i expected at all lmao

feel that very very much lol

Dragon Slayer creeping up to Passerby for my most anticipated track. The "HOLD EM, LET THEM BREATHE, LET THEM BREATHE, LET THEM ALL GO" part is so incredible and p much gets stuck in my head daily.

just from the snippets it seems like avey's lyrics are pretty melancholic and maybe reflect the heartbreak/ache he has been through this past decade...

NNNguuudaaSAAAWWNUHHHgraaaaa

lol'd omg

Oh this is where yal are talking all the new shit? daaaamn ok


yeah this is all lit as hell. tbh, I don't really get the version of Kings I heard. in the recording I had, panda sounded too loud and a little obnoxious lol. but def could be sweet.

Cherokee and Passerby autotune is craaazzzzzzy, esp, their respective endings/climaxes. And then Bolder is super nuts as well, feel like it could be a single that would turn a lot of heads for people who thought this band stopped developing...

love the weird lounge-jazz-psyche + autotune, thats such a weird vibe. loving this soooo much. new Prester John is amazing but slightly less so if you know the way-different Nola version..