[dansemanatee]

went bowling with some friends today, they had one of those digital jukebox things were you pay a dollar to play a song and I played untitled twice. very funny reaction from the other bowlers

[doggyfactory]

namedropping (er hyperlinking) CA in the first paragraph

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/ru ... h-reality/

[coral lord]

roopn wrote:

in love with father time, awesome song. imagine beach house's version of father time

i never understood the generally negative reaction to Father Time, it's a breezy summer alien boat ride with a really great vocal performance and dubby bass. fuckin love it.

[Fovrodi]

Just wish we had an OPN remix of it in the vein of Replica

[jfw7]

doggyfactory wrote:

namedropping (er hyperlinking) CA in the first paragraph

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/ru ... h-reality/

lol I feel so seen/busted/attacked. I tweeted at the author and he said he used to lurk but no account

[Stan]

Great to see your extensive, invaluable work acknowledged on such a scale!

[rohcti]

Good review. I listened last night and liked a few tracks but I'd have to listen again to really know if I like the rest. Good for Rusty, either way!

[Cooper]

“There have been days you feel so sad” on lucky 1 might be my favorite Avey moment

[destiny]

How do they mix the guitars in sung tongs? How do they layer them? I'm a noob and I love how full the guitars sound, I know theres like a shit ton and I read a couple of interviews where they allude to the recording/mixing process but I'd like to know if anyone else has thought about it up and down hehe

[Fovrodi]

wrote:

kapkana:
this is really for avey andor panda, i guess.
i don't think you've talked much about the sung tongs recording sessions and song developments much. can someone talk about this? specifically the incredible percussion, i guess. what a beautiful album.

Avey:
i had really nice pictures of the sung tongs session on a disc somewhere and now i cant find it. If i could i would share them and i do think they will turn up somtime. Yes the hades thing is pretty much how it was, red all the time. Lots of mountain dew for me cause its the only soda i drink really and it has lots of caffine in it. Later on we switched to fat tire beer cause its a good brew for that area. Lots of singing and messing around with doing vocals in all parts of a room. It was basically like a two bedroom house but the living room was all cement...thats where we recorded and the bedroom was where we set up the mixer. Its on the property that my parents live on in lamar colorado. We rented a bunch of mikes here in nyc and took my eight track out there with us. Rusty would just listen to every song as we would play it live and walk around the room for awhile and then decide how hed want to mike the guitars. Noah and i both did the percussion during over dubs throughout the session as well. The first time we played back who could win a rabbit after we recorded the initial tracks we just cracked up and said "holy shit, we made that????...."

davery

antenna builder:
what kind of equipment were you guys using, along the lines of mics/compressors/computer or station or tape? i think one of the most impressive parts about that album that i dont hear many people talk about is how well you guys mixed it. everything is perfectly transparant and panned in such inventive ways n shit -- i could really go on but i won't. headphones and weed and sungtongs and im seriously on fucking mars listening to martian music. bravo.

Avey: yeah we recorded it on the same tascam 48 (half inch 8 track) that i recorded spirit on and the drums guitars and early electronics for danse manatee. that is we recorded the acoustic guitars and the vocals on 8 tracks. Then we mixed it down to rusty's sony laptop and recorded many vocal and percussion over dubs. Hes been using that for years. We mixed it from that onto....somthing..(i cant remember) at noahs mom's place in b-more. It was very cold so we had to wear jackets the whole time. We added in all those samples and electronics there. We mixed for awhile so its sweet you like the mixing. Oh and we used AKGs and an old ribbon mike to record with. Though we had a pzm and some sm57s that we might have used as well. I remember using the pzm to record me slamming the door of the house which is what that distorted rhythm track in kids on holiday is. The person talking at the beginning of wcwar is someone in a deli in my neighborhood.

daevery

Avey:
in terms of magic sounds and things id like to keep some things secret..sorry. Yeah if you listen closely there are lots of one line samples in we tigers...its all noah and i and every thing is a one line to friends of ours or someone we had met in the past year or so before that....listen closely and youll hear someone whisper "christ"

daev

also

Avey:We set up in different configurations around the room. Sometimes we were sitting up on tables, sometimes we were on the floor. We just wanted to see if we could give every song a different feeling and texture.
https://do512.com/p/strange-inquiry-wit ... collective

[opposite field]

[Fovrodi]

should've got whoever edited this to do an entire music video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XmiLNYyl48&t=4369s

[yoyoyoyoy]

https://animalcollective.merchtable.com ... ngagain-cd

So…did they change the name of Hollinndagain cuz it was offensive to people from Holland?

[Hash]

Lol






"There are only two things we can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other races or nationalities, and the Dutch." - AC

[lhtd]

yoyoyoyoy wrote:

https://animalcollective.merchtable.com/music/animal-collective-hollinngagain-cd

So…did they change the name of Hollinndagain cuz it was offensive to people from Holland?

funny enough i asked Dave the other day on instagram if hollinndagain was an Icelandic play on words. höllinn = the palace, dagain / dagin = day.

he "seen" me :')

[scrambledgreggs]

Hollinngagain - Hollinndagain as remixed by Lady Gaga

[rohcti]

Lmao

[dansemanatee]

scrambledgreggs wrote:

Hollinngagain - Hollinndagain as remixed by Lady Gaga

ive never needed to listen to anything more

[Hellomark]

https://mtcannabisreview.substack.com/p ... ve-strains
Geo talking weed

[captainlunatic]

"Tangerine is also something I like quite a bit. We named the record Tangerine Reef after it, actually."

[blindmowing]

Hellomark wrote:

https://mtcannabisreview.substack.com/p/animal-collective-talk-fave-strains
Geo talking weed

Cool to hear their current perspectives on drugs in the studio. Also didn't know the influence on the Tangerine Reef album title

[rohcti]

Oh shit

[bullseye]

Lol, I always thought they named it tangerine reef because of tangerine dream. Its actually their most tangerine dream sounding record.

[blindmowing]

AC just said on IG that these tour dates are the last for "some time" in the area, and one of the cities on the list is NYC... which got me thinking about timelines. they've got the November Europe tour, and a relatively empty 2023 schedule paves the way for a PB/SB tour, Avey and Deakin getting to work on their solo albums...

2022 has been an incredible year to be an AC fan between Skiffs, the tour, and the PBxSB LP.

2023 is looking good for another AC release, Sinister Grift, and the PBxSB tour at the very least...

we're amidst a very prolific period... nice to know we'll be seeing the names of these guys floating around in discussions for another year at least.

[blindmowing]

i think 2013 is the only year that we haven't gotten a single AC related release since they started... (Monkey doesn't count haha)

[evan6032]

I guarantee avey has a solo album finished and ready to rip in 2023

[nothingmaster]

really stoked about upcoming avey stuff with him talking about torn up song structures and shit.

[tealtimes]

blindmowing wrote:

i think 2013 is the only year that we haven't gotten a single AC related release since they started... (Monkey doesn't count haha)

the sad coincidence where my first full year as a diehard fan was 2013...

got way hooked onto AC roughly 10 years ago today after hearing CHz for the first time in terrible compressed quality. thankfully it took all of 2013 to get deep into the whole discography while we awaited new releases, so i feel like it's been an embarrassment of (monkey) riches since I became a fan

[dansemanatee]

blindmowing wrote:

AC just said on IG that these tour dates are the last for "some time" in the area, and one of the cities on the list is NYC... which got me thinking about timelines. they've got the November Europe tour, and a relatively empty 2023 schedule paves the way for a PB/SB tour, Avey and Deakin getting to work on their solo albums...

2022 has been an incredible year to be an AC fan between Skiffs, the tour, and the PBxSB LP.

2023 is looking good for another AC release, Sinister Grift, and the PBxSB tour at the very least...

we're amidst a very prolific period... nice to know we'll be seeing the names of these guys floating around in discussions for another year at least.

sonic boom mentioned there'd be a tour during the reset live stream. psyched cause I haven't seen panda live before and I kinda have no idea what to expect. also what is sinister grift?

[Stan]

dansemanatee wrote:

sonic boom mentioned there'd be a tour during the reset live stream. psyched cause I haven't seen panda live before and I kinda have no idea what to expect. also what is sinister grift?

It's Noah's next album (provisional title) including some of the songs he played in Madrid last/this (?) year.

blindmowing, great summary of the fortunate period we're in. Probably last time we had it so good was MPP, FBK, Oddsac to Downboy period, albeit this was over a good couple of years and Oddsac, TB and DT felt like the start of something newer and darker, a distinct era, and a coming to terms with life after MPP.

This feels much more positive and exciting to me. They've got a killer batch of AC songs which have percolated for years. Noah has a great other batch of songs on the back of a spectacular album with Pete. I assume Dave will have plenty of new material up his sleeve. And once they've finished touring and doing whatever else, at some point hopefully next year I expect we'll hear the first genuinely new AC material in four years on the back of (presumably) their best received work in almost fifteen years.

[dansemanatee]

yea it really is a good time to be into them. i started getting into them in 2020/2021 and i’ve already seen them three times, seeing them two more next week. really excited ab skiffs 2, magicians in baltimore in particular is already one of my favorites by them ever and it hasn’t even come out yet.

[roopn]

How is tuvin so good?

2018-07-17 Symphony Hall, Atlanta, GA is one of the best.

are all the 2018 sung tongs recordings this good?

[curleyswirley]

Had a really vivid dream that I had to fill in for Noah at an AC gig, started off ok but then I forgot the lyrics to Daily Routine and Geo got really mad and started berating me

[opposite field]

A few typos it seems but cool new interview with Deakin. Topics include original plans for Skiffs material, upcoming A24 soundtrack and favorite past memories.

https://northerntransmissions.com/anima ... y-in-them/

[Stan]

Great interview, really insightful into the process. He also seems to be in a great place which I'm really happy to hear.

[Hellomark]

Looking forward to whatever this a24 soundtrack work is. And it's super encouraging to hear how much loved the studio experience recording TS2.

[coral lord]

That's so cool that the COHP tour was just the 3 guys traveling the country without a crew. That's without a doubt one of my favorite shows I've ever been to. Truly magical experience getting Josh harmonizing with Dave on those songs and Jeremy's incredible drumming.

[roopn]

that was a great read

[Stan]

Never even heard of those shows to be honest, or didn't realise the setup in any case.

[opposite field]

coral lord wrote:

That's so cool that the COHP tour was just the 3 guys traveling the country without a crew. That's without a doubt one of my favorite shows I've ever been to. Truly magical experience getting Josh harmonizing with Dave on those songs and Jeremy's incredible drumming.

Yeah I regret not paying more attention when that record came out, it's become maybe my favorite Avey solo album in recent years. Those shows seemed real good.