Collected Animals

what would you guys think of Solange-type production on new AC album?
Binz got that simple 2-chord groove like a few of the new tracks, interesting multiple harmonies, dry drums, could be a direction Panda steers them into?

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Gem and I is such a jam

captainlunatic wrote:

Gem and I is such a jam

word!!! i'm loving it. from the ambient intro to how actually funny it is (i feel like "this is a gun" is such a good, repeatable line)

forgot to post here after this happened...
so on friday i was on my way to a job interview in brooklyn. i was minding my own business, listening to tomboy on the g train, when i see someone who looks an awful lot like avey on the platform. it fucking is, and the mofo gets on my fucking train with abby. we lock eyes and i jump up to talk to him.
definitely made a slight scene in hindsight haha. showed him my people tattoo and talked about some of his new material, and the bands new material.
i name dropped a few song names from the new boots and he seemed surprised. he said that "they're all definitely trying to do something with them" (duh) and he wasnt sure when they would hit the studio. he wasn't sure about the next tour either. i think it's safe to assume a very late 2020 release, or even a spring 2021 release based on him not really having any info of it.
definitely made my whole week, i showed up to my interview riding a post-talking-to-your-idol high. if i get the job, i can confirm avey is magic and a good luck token.

Shiiiit that's awesome. But also kind of a bummer that he didn't know when they'd be recording. Hope you get the job btw

having a couple months now to listen to these jams, gotta say passerby is the one that's still blowing my socks off every time i listen. lots of great songs here but that's the one that really feels most special from the batch

I'm going to say it now: DO NOT get attached to the live versions.

If I see one person write "what happened to the vocals? They really turned down the energy on that song." I'm going to leave this board and never come back.

I'm going to say it now: DO NOT get attached to the live versions.

If I see one person write "what happened to the vocals? They really turned down the energy on that song." I'm going to leave this board and never come back.

start saying your goodbyes now

Passerby does feel in general like a song/melody that's existed for ever. just plucked from the ether. It kinda feels like a darker CHz era jam that should have existed alongside Gotham and like Pulleys or maybe Crimson. But its ummm way better than all of those. Also has like a Procol Harum vibe in the first half. such a beautiful transition/2-parter.

I might be even more excited for studio Cherokee and Bolder to see how the more aggressive auto-tuning is handled there. I sweeeear I will be okay with an even semi-drastically different vocal-processing but I def like what's happening live! there's parts of Cherokee that are borderline too T-Payne-y like when he says "I went down/back to Cherokee (?)" so I'd be okay with that being toned down/changed, but the "if you can feel the love, you'll heal me" is perrrrrrrrrfect and infinite and I hope it lasts for like 2-3 whole minutes. the xylophone sounding parts during that section are some of the more euphoric stuff ive heard from them since live MPP era.. or PW era Techno-Raven maybe (or 2nd half of daily Routine live)

dio wrote:

Passerby does feel in general like a song/melody that's existed for ever. just plucked from the ether. It kinda feels like a darker CHz era jam that should have existed alongside Gotham and like Pulleys or maybe Crimson. But its ummm way better than all of those. Also has like a Procol Harum vibe in the first half. such a beautiful transition/2-parter.

I might be even more excited for studio Cherokee and Bolder to see how the more aggressive auto-tuning is handled there. I sweeeear I will be okay with an even semi-drastically different vocal-processing but I def like what's happening live! there's parts of Cherokee that are borderline too T-Payne-y like when he says "I went down/back to Cherokee (?)" so I'd be okay with that being toned down/changed, but the "if you can feel the love, you'll heal me" is perrrrrrrrrfect and infinite and I hope it lasts for like 2-3 whole minutes. the xylophone sounding parts during that section are some of the more euphoric stuff ive heard from them since live MPP era.. or PW era Techno-Raven maybe (or 2nd half of daily Routine live)

good post, yeah i'd love for that part of cherokee to last for like 3 minutes similar to how they jam on the 'till fully grown' part of brother sport, love when they get in a groove on something so energetic and rich like that

i may get some hate for this but i think deakins tracks are some of the weaker of the bunch. i like downdowndowndown but the others dont do it as much for me. then again i never got too into sleep cycle so maybe im just missing something? i just think the new pb tunes and avey tunes are so crispy and tight, the deakin tacks dont really seem to go anywhere too interesting