Collected Animals

i hear the piano dunno what shes on about

yeah I mean it is in the background but I don't think it needs to be much louder(then again I only know the album as the way it already sounds so what do I know).

Either way I think purple bottle definitely sounds like crystal palace. Surprised she referred to Dave by his full name, I dunno why but that seemed weird to me.

I get the most crystal palace vibes at the end of dystw? and turn into something. especially the former..

And obviously Loch Raven

man at one of their new shows to tour this album if i hear fireworks or even better essplode fireworks thatll be the bees knees man. i didnt know about ac back then so when i go back and listen to boots of the works and essplode im just like damn man

man at one of their new shows to tour this album if i hear fireworks or even better essplode fireworks thatll be the bees knees man. i didnt know about ac back then so when i go back and listen to boots of the works and essplode im just like damn man

w/ lablakely dress intro. heaven

Is it someone here who runs the anco pics account on Instagram? I've been following them for ages

It's two teenage girls isn't it? To the best of my knowledge no but I could be wrong

Yeah it's some 15-17 year old girls

Hey guys! I've kind of been a ghost on here since the crosswords ep announcement but when I saw the post above I figured it's time to get involved. I run the anco_pics page with another girl. The girl she initially ran it with before left. I'm my username and the other girl Leslie is surferhymn

Thank you for your solid documentation skills!

Incredible Kria find. Here are some thoughts I have about "crystal palaces" and Feels...
Feels is often talked about as a really warm, love-y album, and so it's really interesting that Dave envisioned it at first as "crystal palace." Crystal is cold, clear, and has sharp, regular edges. All through Feels there's a contrast between a droney warmth (guitars, voices, etc.) and a plunky coldness (piano). As she is Dave's wife, Kria's piano is in a way the object of love, and all of the other sounds are the "feels" created by it. The loved one's existence is a impersonal and provable fact, but all reactions to it are not. Feels opens with a warm drone and ends with cold piano. It ends by zeroing in on Kria's presence. I always have a moment of realization that the piano is there at all as it rises in the mix. Feels essentially tries to capture this expansive, overwhelming ecstasy of love and then occasionally cuts away at it to reveal the dense, compact reality at its center. Dave may have originally been creatively inspired by the person that he loved, but ultimately the album is about love itself.

Ay crash mosaic, thanks for the great ig posts

after hearing floridada im pretty excited thinking about what their live set up on the tour might be like.

also now so many fun possible old songs that seem like they could fit well

havin hopes this could be their best work yet ?

just maybe s.... ??

fuck y'all see the led zeppelin symbols on the website?

they actually updated the website back when Live at 9:30 came out so they've been there since then. Regardless they're dope

damn so in 2015 we got:
pbvsgr + tons of extra PB stuff
New Psycho Actives vol 1
Live at 9:30 & new website
Cat's Cradle 04 recording
Michael, Remember
FloriDada + Painting With announcement (maybe even a freebird before year's end?)

not bad for a non-touring year

Lolz frumpkin your avatar is off the hook

damn so in 2015 we got:
pbvsgr + tons of extra PB stuff
New Psycho Actives vol 1
Live at 9:30 & new website
Cat's Cradle 04 recording
Michael, Remember
FloriDada + Painting With announcement (maybe even a freebird before year's end?)

not bad for a non-touring year

With the new websites, increased social media presence, and an upcoming pop influenced record, is 2015 the year AC finally went Pro?

if you count a painting with freebird as this year, then we got pbvsgr last year

but agreed with the sentiment. so much good stuff!!

I'm glad they changed the subheading for this forum because Crimson would always get stuck in my head after reading the last one lol

Vashti Bunyan And Animal Collective In Conversation
Cult folk singer Vashti Bunyan and Josh Dibb (Deakin) from post-hippy experimentalists Animal Collective met up recently to talk about the EP they recorded together, Prospect Hummer.

http://thequietus.com/articles/17672-va ... -interview

nice ...

Just stumbled on a table tennis documentary and the trailer features The Purple Bottle. Go figure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4S-yXGKSUI Starts at 1:02

this review of person pitch is hilarious.

person pitch - 2/5

Up to this point, Panda Bear's solo career has been an incidental affair, something that has surfaced in the interludes between Animal Collective albums and tours. His previous releases - 1998's Panda Bear and 2004's Young Prayer - were earnest, respectable efforts that offered their fair share of pleasures but did not establish a distinct or significant new musical identity for Panda Bear apart from Animal Collective. Person Pitch finds Panda Bear taking a giant step - not away from the shadow of the Collective but beyond what that understandably history-bound band has been able to achieve on record in recent times.

In terms of consistency, craftsmanship and musical experimentation, Person Pitch surpasses all his solo work and any Animal Collective album since Sung Tongs. It does so by returning to the dance beats, big grooves and modern edge that have characterized the Collective's best work. The key to all Animal Collective's classics - from "Peacebone" and "Chores" to "Miss You" and "Start Me Up" - is that they are built from the rhythm up: Person Pitch, which was almost entirely constructed around Panda Bear's rhythm guitar, is a return to that modus operandi.

Panda has poured his heart into this album. The strongest songs - "Comfy in Nautica," "Take Pills," "Bros" and "I'm Not" - are also the most candidly personal. In the past, he has slipped into personae - the Street Fighting Man, Jumpin' Jack Flash, the Man of Wealth and Taste - but he lets his guard down to an unprecedented degree on Person Pitch; the beautiful ballads draw on feelings of loneliness, vulnerability, spiritual yearning and, as always, life with the ladies.

These gains in maturity have taken no toll on Panda Bear's inner rock & roller. The Street Fighting Panda can still swagger at the top of his - or anybody else's - game. Person Pitch resembles Animal Collective's best albums in that it's a varied yet cohesive collection of ballads, hard rockers and one country song. But on his own, he is free to cast off the blues-rock anchor that both defines and (at times) confines Animal Collective. Panda Bear heads into edgy, danceable modern-rock territory with the throbbing electronic groove of "Good Girl/Carrots" and the snarling, whip-crack assault of "Search for Delicious."

Making the most of this opportunity to stretch himself, Panda Bear has recruited some outstanding guests, many of them younger artists whom he directly influenced. Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty collaborates on the pop-y, melodic opening track, "Comfy in Nautica," which boasts a soaring chorus. Lenny Kravitz produces and co-writes "Pony Tail," a driving, riff-propelled rocker that evokes the punkish stomp of the early Stones.

On "Take Pills," one of my favorite tracks, Wyclef Jean helps burnish a subtle reggae- and hip-hop-inflected groove. Employing some of his most moving and nuanced vocal phrasing, he confides, "I'm gonna fly away/And no one's gonna find me." The lyrics portray a guy who's got it all - fame, fortune and the means to indulge any materialistic and hedonistic impulse he might divine - but is wise enough in his late middle age to know there's something more out there.

"Bros," a rocking, gospel-tinged collaboration with Bono of U2 - and featuring an indelible guitar hook from Pete Townshend - offers a revealing glimpse of what Panda Bear is seeking: "I looked up to the heavens/And a light is on my face/I never never never/Thought I'd find a state of grace." The mark of U2 is overt on "Bros," but the band's influence subtly courses through the rest of the album; like Bono and company in the last decade, Panda Bear (along with producers, I guess) has adapted modern rhythms and contemporary production techniques to his own naturalistic rock & roll ends.

"I'm Not," featuring Aerosmith's Joe Perry, and "Lucky Day" are fierce, biting rockers. No one struts or wags a tongue as sharply as Panda Bear, and "I'm Not," in particular, stands out as a blistering, arena-ready, hard-rock singalong. The absurdist lyrics find Panda Bear poking fun at scenes from his celebrity life: "My dress designers, they wanna doll me up in blue/Mmm-hmm pretty/Next fall collection, they're gonna show it in the zoo." The tight blues shuffle "Search for Delicious" is highlighted by some brief but fiery harmonica playing from Panda Bear. Like a good blues workout, it leaves you hungry for more, and this masterful use of tension and restraint is part of what makes Person Pitch so beguiling.

It may seem a truism, but it's worth noting that he is - along with John Lennon, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan and Bono - one of the great male rock voices of this age. And he is in exceptional form on Person Pitch. If anything, Panda Bear's voice is rounder and warmer than ever, and he brings a new richness of phrasing to the heartbroken, confessional "Take Pills" and the extraordinary closing tracks, "Search for Delicious" and "Pony Tail."

After all of the excursions undertaken on Person Pitch, Panda Bear brings it all back home with these last two numbers, which are musically rich and lyrically reflective ballads in the grand tradition of such Animal Collective pillars as "Wild Horses" and "Moonlight Mile." Panda Bear offers unabashedly human, vulnerable sentiments on "Search for Delicious": "I will be kind, won't be so cruel/I will be sweet, I will be true/. . . I got a brand-new set of rules I got to learn."

It is a clear-eyed and inspired Panda Bear who crafted Person Pitch, an insuperably strong record that in time may well reveal itself to be a classic. World, meet Panda Bear, solo artist.

is TTG considered an EP?

I have a sorting system in foobar where I designate releases as either Album, Boot, Demo, EP, Live/Other, Single, Unofficial, OST.
So I've got TTG in Live / Other at the moment. is it an EP?

yes

cheers

MPP is really lending a helping hand during a personal/creative transitional period and I just wanted to thank the boys somewhere, even if they don't read it. Nearly flawless album.

i think we all agree ...

I mean i listened and really liked animal collective ... they were like my third favorite act at the time ...

this was before MPP ...

and then when that came out ... just straight on board and that was it ...

I was sold and was convinced that this will be my favorite band in this world ...

I am have completely proven that theory to be as accurate as life is ...

and I aint going nowhere ... none of us are pretty much ... this is just the start ...

once you ' re hooked , that's it ... enjoy the ride yall !

Anyone know why Down There isn't on Apple Music, and I assume Spotify anymore?

paw tracks is a small label so streaming services do weird things sometimes

im not sure if paw tracks still exists

paw tracks is part of carpark. i'd guess any streaming decisions/placements go through them.

im not sure if paw tracks still exists

I think as a record vendor, they still do. I have my doubts if they'll ever actually produce another album, let alone AC album, again. I'd be curious to hear from the boys themselves what the future of paw tracks is

yeah the new prince rama will be released by carpack, not paw tracks

remix! http://ninjatune.net/release/beat-space ... ve-remixes