Collected Animals

hooray! welcome! excellent stuff.

First post on CA, hooray! Anyways, I reviewed and pushed Sleep Cycle onto our college radio station for others to enjoy the wonderful sounds that Deakin has blessed upon us. I've seriously been listening to the album at least twice a day since release... it helped that SC was released during quite a changing point of my life.

Here's an Instagram post of Deakin replying to my IG post, to which I fangirled excessively:

damn now I kinda want a copy of that CD version bootie!

it looks pretty cool!

you can make one yourself right? lol

cept I no longer have a CD burner / CD-Rs let alone that program I used to make the cover art

or a PRINTER!

I guess in theory I could just play the bandcamp over laptop / phone speakers and just record / burn THAT to cassette tape?

oh man!

lol

Walnut wrote:

First post on CA, hooray! Anyways, I reviewed and pushed Sleep Cycle onto our college radio station for others to enjoy the wonderful sounds that Deakin has blessed upon us. I've seriously been listening to the album at least twice a day since release... it helped that SC was released during quite a changing point of my life.

Here's an Instagram post of Deakin replying to my IG post, to which I fangirled excessively:

damn now I kinda want a copy of that CD version bootie!

it looks pretty cool!

Well if you want the document of that makeshift cover and the CD review I submitted, I would be more than happy to send that to you. I think my review of Sleep Cycle ultimately worked well - the station has already played Just Am and Footy several times since Thursday!

Frick yeah

Welcome by the way! Good name.

Frick yeah

Welcome by the way! Good name.

Thanks man. I wish it was my birth name, but what can ya do

Hash wrote:

Frick yeah

Welcome by the way! Good name.

Thanks man. I wish it was my birth name, but what can ya do

change your legal name

is there a thread in the music subforum about music reviews and such

Haha


Least not me guilty this time ......

Welcome Walnut.

Make yourself comfortable in the contrarian thread. Good place to garner a general vibe of this palce, and get to know really people. It comes personally recommended

I'm leaving that grammatical mix-up in. It actually perfectly demonstrates the level of drunk I am

I feel guilty listening to Good House without listening to Seed Song before it

I feel guilty listening to Good House without listening to Seed Song before it

I always listen to seed song first. One of the best song transitions to come from the group in years. On the same level as mr. fingers-->kindle song and guys eyes-->taste, which also demand to be heard together every time.

yeah. these guys fucking kill it with their transitions. i always loved in the flowers -> my girls.

sorry to revisit music criticism, but i am generally irked by the fact that many critical outlets have just outright ignored this wonderful album. it has an 85 on metacritic right now--which is awesome--but from only four reviews. you'd think more sites would be keen to cover this record. still holding out hope for a TMT review. again, i'm just interested in seeing this thing get the exposure it deserves.

He didn't advertise it much, or go out of his way to make sure publications see it. Seems like he wanted it to be on the dl. which is kind of a shame; i feel like reviewers would have jumped on the ability to claim this album is "saving animal collective" or something haha

scrambledgreggs wrote:

I feel guilty listening to Good House without listening to Seed Song before it

I always listen to seed song first. One of the best song transitions to come from the group in years. On the same level as mr. fingers-->kindle song and guys eyes-->taste, which also demand to be heard together every time.

Heather in the Hospital ->Lucky 1

Heather in the Hospital ->Lucky 1

Absolutely

Holy shit is Good House great. What a guy.

Im a pulling a goku tonight what should be the first album i put on my brand new laptop

how does one 'pull a goku' ?

Deakin posted an update re: shoes and said the cassingle will feature a "bonus track". I wonder if it'll be the same track both sides or one of the Sleep Cycle tracks backed with a b-side.

how does one 'pull a goku' ?

Deakin posted an update re: shows

could you possibly share what he said about shows? thanks

Woops, meant shoes. Probably iPhone autocorrecting poor button mashing, sorry!

ah gotcha, all good!

yeuuuuuuuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa hyueaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa hyeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa hYUEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HYUOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

yeuuuuuuuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa hyueaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa hyeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa hYUEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HYUOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

TFW you gonna listen to some AC!! lo!L

Deakin should rename Just Am to "Just Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam"

Deakin - Just Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam (woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaah)

I think I've seen it discussed previously, but I'm going to bring it up again.....is this going to be released on CD/wax at any point? Wanting to know if I should buy the MP3s from itunes or wait it out

Deak said in his reddit ama that there's no plans for vinyl right now but possibly in the future https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/com ... ma/d21it0n

I think I've seen it discussed previously, but I'm going to bring it up again.....is this going to be released on CD/wax at any point? Wanting to know if I should buy the MP3s from itunes or wait it out

You should buy it from Bandcamp, I think he gets bigger cut there

Sweet, I'll do that. thanks

Plus you can get em lossless and you don't need an account or anything, it's so sad people still choose itunes over bandcamp

Just wanted to post that since this has come out, I have probably heard my wife listen to Just Am no less than 60 times - she's obsessed! Interestingly, as much as I like that song, I probably actually prefer golden chords, footy, and good house to it-proof of what a great and diverse record sleep cycle is. Deakin you rock.

I had a week or two off from it and wondered whether I was just swept up in all the excitement. Started listening again last Tuesday morning. Must have listened twenty times since. I'm happy when every track starts. No skip.

yeah this thing is really aging like fine wine. On first listen it felt short, but now I think of it as just very concise with no filler or over indulgence in particular moments. can't wait to listen on some upcoming drives for summer trips to wisconsin/michigan. gonna sound great in the woodz.

u shld change yr av dude