Collected Animals

I was able to click through on my initial order link and get the full album download. the one that they sent via email with dolphin single

Thank you!

I don’t post here much but I love this band, I love this album, and I love this fanbase. Feeling overwhelmed with gratitude from Buoys and can’t wait for the LA shows.

Crazy to think we’ll have an Avey record to pair with this in just over a month! It’s an exciting time to be a fan.

https://imgur.com/a/4d0pO9k

this made me weirdly emotional when i read this. it's touching that he's vocally thanking us, and saying that giving us an album is "the least he can do". god i fucking love this man

What is that from?

Homies is my favorite panda release and sunset is my favorite Panda bear song alongside the live version of buoys and a musician and a film maker...weish he didm ore homies stuff...that desert dayus set with all the songs homies-fied (with THE skeletal you can count on me) is so lit...and homies songs live are probably the most huge in his entire discog aside from 2010 tomboy live

Yee I agree homies is his best album and sunset his best song ever. All of his stuff is masterful tho

To me the quintessential panda bear feeling is having an ecstatic warm bolt of joy in your spine while you have some chillier vibes up in your brain, contorting your face into a fucked up confusion

jamming this ass now

I like how the vocal is up a notch on buoys

After seriously bumming Saturdays for days, I've come back to this with a vengeance. I think it might be the most coherent and consistent PB record and it's basically all deep cuts. Absolutely adore it.

preakness wrote:

https://imgur.com/a/4d0pO9k

this made me weirdly emotional when i read this. it's touching that he's vocally thanking us, and saying that giving us an album is "the least he can do". god i fucking love this man

What is that from?

Panda did a takeover of 9:30 club's instagram story and posted short breakdowns of the lyrics from each song on the album. Here's an album of all the images he posted https://imgur.com/gallery/GmNTMAa

I've only skimmed it but some of the explanations are just as cryptic as the actual lyrics lol. still pretty cool to read though

edit: lol

Honestly I hadn't been super sold on the singles but hearing the full album now I'm really digging it. Will probably be even better in the summer and not during the middle of a snowstorm

Really didn't rate this one. There's always nice moments across all his releases but tbh since Person Pitch none of his stuff has fully clicked with me, whereas Avey is still absolutely killing it.

Having said that, there's nothing offensive about this album. It's very chill, but apart from a few nice chorus moments it does very little for me after lots of listens.

I will write more later, but for now, I'll say the following: this album is impossibly good.

I've listened in very good headphones and also very loud off the turntable, not yet in the car yet. How are people finding best listening experiences? I know in some interviews panda talked about having to make sonic decisions that should work (differently?) with different set ups and I think I was hearing that today and last night.

Just really fucking awesome shit, I'm so happy. Good for us all.

I love this so much.

I’d kill to be able to hear Tomboy with this production. I think that was his original intention with that and fell into old tricks.

Killer album this is for sure.

vinyl sounds great. given the run time, seems like a missed opportunity to not press it at 45rpm but oh well.

vinyl sounds great. given the run time, seems like a missed opportunity to not press it at 45rpm but oh well.

yes.

man, i LOVE the packaging of the vinyl. the texture of the stock they used for the jacket is great and i love the cover way more in person than i did when it was first released. the pattern on the boarder and the spine is really cool too, and the lettering inside is sick. great work to everyone on design.

Token is like the ideal Panda song to me. It's what I wished the Tomboy songs sounded like. If Tomboy had been produced in the same way as this song, it would be one of the greatest albums of all time.

I am late/on time to this party, but omg Cranked I love you.

Token is like the ideal Panda song to me. It's what I wished the Tomboy songs sounded like. If Tomboy had been produced in the same way as this song, it would be one of the greatest albums of all time.

damn, it's pretty hard to imagine this because Buoys and Tomboy sound so different but I can see what you're saying. It reminds me of how Panda said for Tomboy he initially imagined the sound as like a triangle between the voice, guitar and rhythms. Buoys feels much more like it fits that description, except maybe it's more like voice - guitar - bass. I love all the heavy dub style fx on Tomboy but it would amazing to hear those songs in this stripped back style.

It's cool that now he has more solo albums where he plays guitar than ones where he doesn't, I just realized

...anything goes as long as joy's the plan...

does anyone has the full lyrics explanation thing, I just noticed it is not complet. (the Jetski imugur post)

I wasn't sold on the LP when it freebirded, but I'm feeling it this week. Been on repeat for the commute every AM. It sounds really nice loud with heavy bass. Some nice deep end sounds throughout the record. I'm over the moon at Masters, the vocals are so cool with the autotune. Those you's, do's, & true's are really wonderful.

Fingers crossed for the Bouys full band tour like he mentioned in the future. That would be sweet.

Bring on this summer AC tour.

does anyone has the full lyrics explanation thing, I just noticed it is not complet. (the Jetski imugur post)

Pretty sure it is complete, but I think you have to click load more at the bottom to see the last few images

After a few more listens, I am relieved and delighted by this album. I didn't know I needed Buoys but man am I glad it's here. Inner Monologue might be the biggest surprise for me. Its opening bit scared me last night but it's growing to be one of my favorites.

love love love this album. so much to love

the drum programming on IKIDK reminds me of noah's drumming on spirit and danse (and reminds me how much i want to hear him drum like that again)

...anything goes as long as joy's the plan...

I read this as he sang it.

IT IS SO GOOD! grabbed my copy today and jesus- i'm hooked on the first listen!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!

i am constantly amazed how with each album, being so different from each other, i am still so absolutely in love with the feeling of each one. was listening to young prayer the other day and just the evolution of each album...

SO GOOD

My copy came in today and it very strongly smells of caramel. Does anyone else’s vinyl copy smell like that?

lol weird. They should've made it smell like peppermint if anything

My copy came in today and it very strongly smells of caramel. Does anyone else’s vinyl copy smell like that?

Yup. Mine totally smells like caramel on the cover.
I was so happy that it showed up early I almost forgot to smell it.

Yeah it’s weird for sure lol l. Like as soon as I opened the package I was like “what is this smell and why”

he botched buoys...

he botched buoys...

i hate to be a negative nancy but SEriously

i really dislike where he placed the "oooh"s, vocals are overwhelmingly upfront, "it comes to me" and "and when it makes a sound" lines sound off the beat

besides that singular complaint i'm lovin this album

No way it rules

I like how "and when it makes a sound" drags behind a little, kinda like a flylo beat or something

yeah i gotta agree Buoys is fucking sick on record

at first i wasn't so sure about studio buoys but now i dig it

Its the best like the best boot ever <3
Like you can tell he just wanted to record it bled out n banging

well everyone can't be pleased

i think i've had 4 or 5 different favorites on this already. currently cranked is the chosen 1

I do wish the pitched down vocals were a little more prominent... they were really cool live