Collected Animals

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)

It's on for two more days! Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. 18:30 - 22:30. Let us know if you make it!

oh rad. i’ll go tomorrow and report back (with the latest bathroom FLACs)

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.

Hey, forgot to say thank you for this info. This is really fascinating to me. I esp love Noah using such a cheap guitar, just goes to show you can make magic regardless of how expensive your guitars are

What a weird life...

I went to Abby's installation for Vetrarhátíð (the Winter Lights Festival) in downtown Reykjavík last night. Not only is she projecting her visuals three houses down from my old apartment, she's projecting on this old guesthouse that I was hired under the table to do handiwork for 10 years ago by some Israeli guy and his creepy family. Pretty sure it's a front for moving money, no one ever stays there and... he hired me to do handiwork, of which I had no experience prior. And I'm talking about janky handiwork, file down the sides of windows by hand so that they close fully kind of handiwork.

Anyway.

It's such a trip to see the AC world 'project' itself on my random old stomping grounds at the end of the earth. Wish they would have come when I worked there.

Unfortunately I heard none of Dave's sounds at the installation. They might have not have played them the last night. I checked in on it twice and was full-on ready to record it. Oh well! Some of the other installations had sound, some didn't.

whoa neat projections and bizarre coincidence! thank you for going and sharing. bummer no audio but still cool anyway

Doing everything in my power to get rid of this thread

does anyone know anything about these prints? girlfriend got me an early valentines gift

https://powerhousefactories.com/product ... cret-pack/ "These 4 color posters were screen printed on heavy white paper with acrylic inks for two Animal Collective shows back in 2013…We lost them for a few years, and they just turned up. Get you some!"

What a weird life...

I went to Abby's installation for Vetrarhátíð (the Winter Lights Festival) in downtown Reykjavík last night. Not only is she projecting her visuals three houses down from my old apartment, she's projecting on this old guesthouse that I was hired under the table to do handiwork for 10 years ago by some Israeli guy and his creepy family. Pretty sure it's a front for moving money, no one ever stays there and... he hired me to do handiwork, of which I had no experience prior. And I'm talking about janky handiwork, file down the sides of windows by hand so that they close fully kind of handiwork.

Anyway.

It's such a trip to see the AC world 'project' itself on my random old stomping grounds at the end of the earth. Wish they would have come when I worked there.

Unfortunately I heard none of Dave's sounds at the installation. They might have not have played them the last night. I checked in on it twice and was full-on ready to record it. Oh well! Some of the other installations had sound, some didn't.

Wild. Thanks for going and sharing your pics. Was Abby’s installation video or still images?

Thanks for sharing lhtd!

She did post one clip with some audio here - https://www.instagram.com/p/CoMvNoZNs42/
"Audio manipulations of my voice created for me by brother Dave"

Only slightly related but I thought it was a cool cosmic link, two previously unpublished David Berman poems were posted recently one featuring the line "warlocks from Baltimore" Link below, for some reason the website seems to have taken them down so I had to wayback it

https://web.archive.org/web/20230130135 ... two-poems/

i think there's a case for '08 being just as good a live year as '07

hovefestival is impeccable

i think there's a case for '08 being just as good a live year as '07

hovefestival is impeccable

For sure. I think the '09 performances were a bit fatigued, but there were some gems like Big Sur and Prospect Park that year.

early '09 ripped. the first shows with wwiw?s, which coincided with the release of mpp, had insane energy. still feel like there was something dormant and awe-ful about seeing the band in January '09. I was at the Chicago show and the sense was "whoa. this is it. this is the sound and here it is".

mid- to late-'09 was definitely fatigued

have had buoys in heavy rotation recently for the first time since it came out, really good album

cows too, kc yours and ono lemonade so good

I miss freebirds. I know that they harm sales and take the wind out of marketing plans, etc. I know that they're a net loss in every respect to musicians but I personally enjoyed the excitement of rumours that such and such has apparently got a copy and their mate is removing the watermark as we speak and oh shit it's been ripped but only to VHS who's got a VHS player in the Newark area?

Has ANYONE got a VHS player in the NEWARK AREA?

Staying up til 3am for a Newark VHS dub then waiting for someone else to split the file. And then someone else is 'remastering' it and the PM deluge. Here ya go buddy, just in case you don't have it yet.

Then about a day later the actual record comes out as planned.

i'm 10 min away from newark and have a vhs player pm me (real)

no i feel you tho i'll miss that excitement if freebirds are no longer a thing, was buoys the last ac freebird?

listening to i'm your eagle kisser rn. one of my favorite things about AC, particularly avey, is how they can make music that sounds so psychedelic with just vocals and acoustic guitars and/or piano. sung tongs, campfire songs, pullhair rubeye...what i'd love more than anything is an avey solo record that's just him with an acoustic guitar and a piano. to be utilizing such a standard no frills set up, and making music that still sounds so outside of the box...such a special thing

listening to i'm your eagle kisser rn. one of my favorite things about AC, particularly avey, is how they can make music that sounds so psychedelic with just vocals and acoustic guitars and/or piano. sung tongs, campfire songs, pullhair rubeye...what i'd love more than anything is an avey solo record that's just him with an acoustic guitar and a piano. to be utilizing such a standard no frills set up, and making music that still sounds so outside of the box...such a special thing

Amen. Pullhair Avey is my favorite Avey.

So much of it's in the voice, PJ in particular

captainlunatic wrote:

i think there's a case for '08 being just as good a live year as '07

hovefestival is impeccable

For sure. I think the '09 performances were a bit fatigued, but there were some gems like Big Sur and Prospect Park that year.

i really wish there wasn't such a strange lack of 08 boots. always confused me, it's not like they didn't play tons of shows that year.

also i get feeling like there's some energy missing from the 09 boots but also it's hard not to feel like you're witnessing a band at the height of their powers with the melt fest vid or the glastonbury boot (tho i'll always maintain that paradiso 09 is an overhyped set that doesn't deserve to be canonized as *the* mpp concert) also yea big sur is such a little gem

'08 summertime clotheses have this crackling energy that the '09 versions don't from what i've heard. maybe it's in the vocals or something. coachella prime example. i need to start wading into the '09 titans though, i haven't heard paradiso or big sur or any of those others yet

09 is bloated, sounds like the Eagles or something.

bloated is a good word for the sense

the 07 shows in retrospect carried over the raw live energy of strawberry jam (for good reason considering that was the sj era, by and large). 07 bearhug had this yearning to it; 09 summertime clothes was more of a sugar crash

Another issue for me with some '09 shows is that Avey's new keyboard basslines don't always sit the way I'd like them to in the mix. I did listen to Paradiso though and the bass is just right, it's loud and boomy and gels with the other elements, so probably my favorite '09er so far, lots of energy in the vocals and some inspired jams. Ballet Slippers is also decent although I think the soundboards from this year can be really hit-or-miss personally. The performances can make up for it but man I'd have loved to hear that drum loop in WCWAR turned way up and punched up in the bass, instead you can barely hear it at all

someone asked avey in the reddit AMA today about that pretty little “hey ya, hey ya, i wanted to ask ya…” song in the 2004 other music recording. he said he doesnt remember it and it was probably noah’s song. I never really expected to hear another recording of it but its still a bit of a bummer to basically have confirmation that it only happened that one time lol

not sure what the general consensus is but I vote we never discuss their personal lives.

From the avey AMA:


Q: Are there any unreleased/"live-only" cuts (solo or otherwise) that you still look back on fondly?


A: There are a bunch of tunes from my first solo tour which i never released. Unfortunately some of the parts and music is long gone but i do have some practice recordings from before the tour that ive always thought about releasing.


pls do it avey

oh please please slow words

Mother 3 will come out before any official Slow Words

Listened to a lecture tonight from a well-known philosopher—he’s too divisive to name—who started riffing on the beauty of the moment a band congeals onstage into something greater than the sum of its parts, when the art they’re making “removes what is unworthy” from the room by revealing something profoundly true. It’s ineffable but undeniable. Struck me as an apropos description of the live AC experience—magicians from Baltimore removing what is unworthy.

Who was it

Zizek

Emerson

Emerson

lolol

I'll guess JBP

oh please please slow words

slow words is the main I think of wanting from that era too...

Zizek

They’ve had debates, Zizek and the mystery man. “The Left” hates him. And I hate politics and ideology so he shall remain unnamed. Can’t get that phrase/idea outta my head tho—how art that is somehow true “removes what is unworthy.” Beautiful.

Just tell us c'mon

Fovrodi wrote:

Zizek

They’ve had debates, Zizek and the mystery man. “The Left” hates him. And I hate politics and ideology so he shall remain unnamed. Can’t get that phrase/idea outta my head tho—how art that is somehow true “removes what is unworthy.” Beautiful.

People who are privy to a little clinical psychology certainly hate him as well. I appreciate you sharing that line, because I think it's awful. 'Worthiness' has no place in serious music discussion, pretty prescriptive thing to say in my opinion.

Trying not to come off as bad faith btw. Just my 2 cents. Love when new album cycles drive lurkers like me to post