Collected Animals

Tomboy: this is a pretty solid follow-up to Person Pitch. while it might not hit some of the high highs of Noah's magnum opus, it's still pretty consistently good. in addition to the album that may or may not overshadow this one, i found myself comparing and contrasting with Down There at times. i like that this is a lot more upbeat overall, but it's still not afraid to go to those dark places at times. the track that stood out the most to me on this first listen was Afterburner, which gives me slight The Field vibes and is just a banger in general, but there wasn't really anything here i didn't like

now all that's left for me to do this week is THE ANIMAL COLLECTIVE MOVIE

still playing catch up:

Strawberry Jam

burnt emotional mudcake lyrics.

nine songs of varied textures, each song a layer cake, oozing creams and jellies (JAMS, duh) but also crunchy chocolates and nuts and squishy candies like sugar worms and Jujubes and marshmallow bananas.


Tomboy

a minimal cinematic experience, angel daydreaming on a white-sand beach, psychedelic in monochrome, triangular stadium band set up. Noah's vocals blasting past the rafters into the blinding heavens. those vocals pure cocaine lacing the aisles of God's ear-drums, those synth drones carving trenches into the veins of space cadets, the reverb of guitars ricocheting off the furthest planets

The biggest strength of Centipede songs is how complex a few of them are, and how their structures go through so many parts in such a short time.

Continuing on my diatribe, i find Chz to be a continuation of some of the themes of anxiety/dissociation/depression on Strawberry Jam, just kind've times'd ten, which is a lot especially bc Jam already had a song like Cuckoo which is times a thousand. Chz is kind've more confrontational about it. Here's what I mean: in a song like Safer, the way the mantra kinda corrupts itself is that of like a panic attack, and the statement itself is kind've yielding and passive which gives it so much weight as it breaks into screaming. "I'm alright if you're alright"... It feels the same on Street Flash or Rev Green, which are kind've like snide musings on shit in a pretty cynical light. Chz is the inverse of that, while both include screaming and noisy sections, Chz songs are much more in your face and almost angry about the pain their feeling. Todays Supernatural Avey yells to deal with it as he warps around the song's snake like structure, eventually ending in a pained scream w "the same." Amanita's anthemic last section rejecting modern bullshit, and my favorite Mercury's desperate howls lay anxieties about distance and separation bare with pretty vulnerable statements not masked by metaphor or anything. "If you could only feel what's wrong". Shit like that, which AC are fucking amazing at. That's why I feel this album has a strong emotional core as any other AC album, it just processes the emotions a little louder

It just sounds amazing, especially with the thunderous drums. Mr Fingers is enormous, one of their best and most intense sounding tracks.

Screens is delicious, Panda at his most melodic. Only issue I have with it is that they both feel more like solo songs than ac. i know everyone is contributing but idk, not sure why i feel that way. amazing otherwise!! Avey's Working is amazing, almost like proto-Eucalyptus in his singing. Those blasts of drums and static scare me every time. Tantrum Barb is of course classic Panda, always been one of my personal favorites. super tribal and pretty unique lyrics for him imo.

i understand why they never released this audio-only, and i do really dig danny perez's visuals, but this thing is insane. one of their weirdest latter-day releases and i wish more people could be exposed to these fantastic songs.

Entering my mid thirties, CHz really scratches an itch I honestly didn't have when it came out. The expressions of agitation seem a little more pragmatic and less like emotional poetry which is where I feel SJ leans in it's clearer moments. Like going from "my inner child feels lost in this confusing and lonely world" to " I wanna punch this answering machine". The "sometimes you gotta go get mad" lyric is the defining line of the album for sure

Really been enjoying a lot of the CHZ posts here. Gonna take a good listen to that record sometime over the next few days. That was the first new album I got to experience from the band and I've had a lot of changing feelings on it over the years. I was 17 when it came out and was traveling and had to pay for hotel wifi in Boston to listen to the premiere stream, different times for sure.

Glad everyone is in consensus that Honeycomb/Gotham is a perfect 7" and a huge highlight from that era. I remember those songs dropping and everyone completely losing it. Looking at the lyrics now they hit harder at this point in my life than they did in the past. In the same way I've really taken to Street Flash again during the pandemic times Honeycomb hits the same way.

spend an hour typing down my thoughts on oddsac and chz and was automatically logged out and the text was deleted.

before diving into the boots just imagine it being 2013 and knowing that panda is about to play a one off set of brand new music we know nothing about and then afterwards these two videos are the first thing to surface from the show:





then dive into the ATP boot

Never heard that. I understand and respect JFW7s embargo on archiving those but I wish they lived somewhere accessible. But no way in hell we're getting another stickied thread in this forum

Have listened to these in years? Where can I find them now?
Definitely think we need a sticky thread in love for all the various demos/sessions type recordings.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ew9vozofj8s4cde/PANDA_BEAR_ATP_REHEARSAL_V1.zip/file

Slasher Flicks - Listened a bunch when it came out but kinda left it sidelined in recent years. Basically the songs are crazy good but the mix shits me. There is lots of good too, I don't want to be super negative but that's the long and short of it. I'll try to write more when I have some time

Also I think this has my vote for worst AC album art sorry

wait, how many versions of PBVSGR are there?

madameghostly wrote:

wait, how many versions of PBVSGR are there?

Jokes aside, Pete supposedly made 6 versions, but only released v1 and v6. This is as far as my knowledge goes, and I only have v6.

v6 is probably my favorite bit of anco content of the 2010's. ms pacman is so viscerally beautiful.

petek didn't make them, noah records his rehearsals and presumably shared them with him to give an idea of the songs. pete then later shared v1 and v6 with the board