Collected Animals • General The Animal Collective Talk (...cont'd)

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Post **Posted:** Sat Jan 21, 2023 8:02 pm

Yes and no. I do want to listen to Lulu, apologies no need to be so negative

Post **Posted:** Sat Jan 21, 2023 9:47 pm

I'm just happy my fav band gets to play with one of the greatest musicians ever tbh. Regardless of the quality, that's pretty cool

Post **Posted:** Sat Jan 21, 2023 10:20 pm

Fovrodi wrote:

I'd rather listen to lulu, hitching your shit to younger artists is cooler if they're old too

look up how old Metallica was when lulu came out (and subtract like three or four years) for a spooky surprise

Post **Posted:** Sat Jan 21, 2023 11:32 pm

scrambledgreggs wrote:

that John Cale album is a beast, definitely a unique and cohesive sound despite all the different features. the song with AC is cool, neat to hear their vocals on it, but is definitely more in Cale's world than AC's

Thanks for this comment, decided to check out the rest of the album. It hooked me way more than I was expecting.

He even has a track with Actress. Like what

Post **Posted:** Sat Jan 21, 2023 11:47 pm

Fovrodi wrote:

I'd rather listen to lulu, hitching your shit to younger artists is cooler if they're old too

Could you explain more?

Post **Posted:** Sat Jan 21, 2023 11:55 pm

Bad faith take, not really worth getting into

Post **Posted:** Sun Jan 22, 2023 6:04 am

Anyone know of any good boots of Father Time?

Post **Posted:** Sun Jan 22, 2023 2:58 pm

roopn wrote:

Anyone know of any good boots of Father Time?

There’s a show from 2013 in Paris on YouTube I believe we’re they play it that’s great quality or 2011 pitchfork

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2023 2:11 am

roopn wrote:

Anyone know of any good boots of Father Time?

Try this one:

https://archive.org/details/acollective ... d1t04.flac

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2023 5:34 am

Thank you both!
paris 2013 has a really cool intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgZ8ZE7 ... mY&index=9

Post **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2023 11:42 am

John Cale is the goat

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2023 2:53 am

Is "animal_collective_official" on Spotify actually official?

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2023 3:37 am

If it's not they've done their homework. First I've come across this playlist. Very tempted to get tidal and recreate it bc spotify is awful

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1EnRX ... x6fZmFvsWT

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2023 5:44 am

Thx. Yeah they have a few playlists that looked interesting to me, I especially like the songs they chose for the Avey playlist. Guess I'll check the rest out

Post **Posted:** Wed Jan 25, 2023 4:33 am

I asked ChatGPT what the title of the next Animal Collective album would be, and it said "Echoes of the Wild"

as AI often is, as it relies on past data and over-condenses information into familiars, it's too on the nose

Post **Posted:** Wed Jan 25, 2023 5:39 am

Provisional titles include:

Crinkle Cranks
Will To Joy
Medal Geyser Solace

Post **Posted:** Wed Jan 25, 2023 1:16 pm

Medal Geyser Solace sounds a lot like someone with a bizarre accent talking about Hideo Kojima's masterpiece

Post **Posted:** Wed Jan 25, 2023 1:21 pm

Yeah, it's the kind of awkward non-pun that is their breadth and Buddha.

Post **Posted:** Thu Jan 26, 2023 1:00 am

Fovrodi wrote:

If it's not they've done their homework. First I've come across this playlist. Very tempted to get tidal and recreate it bc spotify is awful

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1EnRX ... x6fZmFvsWT

John Martyn, second track in, is a legend. Check him out if you dig the acoustic theatrics of a Burt Jansch or a Nick Drake—he and John were pals—but also like your folk with a pinch of jazz and a dash of blissed-out psychedelia. Records like Bless the Weather, Solid Air (about Nick), Inside Out and One World are in a league of their own. Way ahead of his time—beat Sung Tongs by a good 35 years.

Post **Posted:** Thu Jan 26, 2023 8:36 pm

"Echoes of the Wild" sounds like one of the titles people were speculating for the next Zelda game before Nintendo announced it would be called Tears of the Kingdom

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2023 4:09 pm

had a dream last night that i found evidence of some panda bear live performances from 2011 that he performed with more like a small chamber ensemble, including someone credited as the "bee holder". which is a good pun i guess but doesn't make a lot of sense

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2023 5:07 pm

^haha "found evidence." Tell me you run the live Performance page without telling me you run the live Performance page

Btw, anyone know what guitar Noah uses on Tomboy? Or any shows for that matter, and any info about Avey and Deak's? Just curious, I haven't seen it mentioned and couldn't find anything after a few minutes of googling

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2023 5:53 pm

Wasn’t it a squier Stratocaster? Avey had a PRS for Feels and SJ eras I believe.

Deakin: You must be speaking of my blueish reddish guitar that I just started using on this last American jaunt. From what I was told it is an old silvertone from the late sixties and was custom painted that way. I found it in a guitar shop in brooklyn for just over $400 which I consider to be a total and complete steal. That and the red tele are my only two guitars that I own. I think that you kind of just need to look and look and someday something will look at you and say "I'm yours" and you will get it. I go to music shops a decent amount and I almost never see guitars that I want. I needed a second guitar for that tour and rushed to music shop the day we left for Boston and there it was, just waiting for me. Kind of a miracle.

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2023 6:43 pm

rohcti wrote:

Btw, anyone know what guitar Noah uses on Tomboy? Or any shows for that matter, and any info about Avey and Deak's? Just curious, I haven't seen it mentioned and couldn't find anything after a few minutes of googling

I love digging into gear, feel like its been less of a thing recently for whatever reason.

Noah used like an insanely cheap looking XP brand strat copy for Tomboy, could not cost more than $100. I think he had a midi pickup on it though which was then routed through the Korg M3 to make it sound the way it does on Tomboy. For that recent show he did with the bendy guitar stuff he used one of the newer Fender acoustasonic telecasters.

Avey has almost always used strat style guitars with single coil pickups whether they are Fender or other brands. The one he's been using for the last number of years has been from these guys. https://www.30thstreetguitars.com/ He also had a thinline telecaster on these last tours for some songs and Noah used it on Soul Capturer.

Deak seems to have mixed it up the most maybe but for the most part is strats and teles. He used a baritone during CHZ and got a 12 string hagstrom within the last year or so that he's been using on bluish.

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2023 6:51 pm

Q: Do you still have the black PRS?

Avey: I do but it was busted at a show and so i don't really use it anymore.

Post **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2023 10:59 pm

jfw7 wrote:

had a dream last night that i found evidence of some panda bear live performances from 2011 that he performed with more like a small chamber ensemble, including someone credited as the "bee holder". which is a good pun i guess but doesn't make a lot of sense

fucking bee holder lol. if he were ever to perform with a small chamber ensemble i feel like it would have bee 2011 tomboy era lol

Post **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2023 1:07 am

I know AC/Beach Boys comparisons have been done to death by now but is it just me or does David Marks look uncannily like Deakin on this cover

Post **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2023 3:50 am

Lol uncanny

Post **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2023 3:53 am

Tikwid wrote:

I need some time first just to bee hold that image

Post **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2023 4:04 pm

bruce looks like leland palmer kinda

Post **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2023 8:23 pm

Can anybody provide or direct me to a quick account/history of the PW bathroom flacs?

I think I vaguely understand how things went down. Baltimore airport preview (Did they play the whole album that day?) . . . somebody captured stuff from those speakers on their phone? Then posted them . . . where? Were they complete songs? Snippets?

I've tried searching through the CA forums - I'm sure there are discussions somewhere in here. But can't find it exactly.

Related: those files + amazon song snippets . . . were those really the only sense folks had of what the music sounded like, apart from their official releases?

Post **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2023 8:42 pm

They played the whole album over the speakers at the airport. Bathroom was the best place to capture that. Bathroom 'FLACs' was ironic because the quality was quite shit.

Only other preview were the Amazon snippets.

Post **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2023 9:05 pm

If memory serves correctly the board first caught wind of it happening because Avey tare's cousin tweeted or posted on IG saying there was new Animal Collective music playing at the BWI airport. Some people thought he was kidding. Dudes talked about how it happened in this interview

https://www.washingtonian.com/2015/12/0 ... um-at-bwi/

Post **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2023 10:43 pm

Stan wrote:

They played the whole album over the speakers at the airport. Bathroom was the best place to capture that. Bathroom 'FLACs' was ironic because the quality was quite shit.

Only other preview were the Amazon snippets.

Awesome, and thanks for the quotes around flacs - I get it now. Never did before.

From that interview - cool that Pavement was the random comp. I gotta listen to more Pavement. They were just before my time.

Post **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2023 11:31 pm

andthephantom wrote:

Stan wrote:
They played the whole album over the speakers at the airport. Bathroom was the best place to capture that. Bathroom 'FLACs' was ironic because the quality was quite shit.

Only other preview were the Amazon snippets.

Awesome, and thanks for the quotes around flacs - I get it now. Never did before.

From that interview - cool that Pavement was the random comp. I gotta listen to more Pavement. They were just before my time.

Pavement is great, personally I've always found it hard to find a tangible connection between AC and Pavement besides them saying they kinda idolized them. And obv automine. I guess some of the ethos of S and E (my favorite by them) are sort of similar to some AC quirks.

Post **Posted:** Thu Feb 02, 2023 12:31 am

They've described Pavement as a gateway band in the past

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGUQTEPoZac&t=200s

The inspiration on them live is pretty clear though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq4JGSxMzms

This weird 90s mix they did in 2016 is a broader picture of what all inspired them as teens in the 90s. I recall in an interview Avey eschewed bands in the early 2010s that were kind of just aping Pavement

Spoiler: show

Post **Posted:** Thu Feb 02, 2023 1:09 am

captainlunatic wrote:

bruce looks like leland palmer kinda

You’re right! Probably one of the most atypically terrifying characters in all of TV history, wouldn’t you say?

Post **Posted:** Thu Feb 02, 2023 2:26 pm

Anyone happen to be in Reykjavik?

wrote:

Hi if your around Reykjavik Thursday - Saturday come see my new video piece on the front of Skólavörðustígur 30, in the 101 audio for this piece created by brother @aaaveytttare
Stoked to actually be here for the winter lights festival this year

https://www.instagram.com/p/CoFa6q5N9Mx/

Post **Posted:** Thu Feb 02, 2023 6:00 pm

Was just there a month ago, dammit.

Post **Posted:** Thu Feb 02, 2023 9:57 pm

dammit that was today! oh well. crazy wintry mix with 50mph winds here today. wonder if abby will do other things here.

crazy tho cause i used to live at Skólavörðstígur 38 (still a 101 rat however)