Collected Animals

someone compiled the live recordings into an album yet?

scrolled by this a couple times thinking it was just a recording of genie's open. it rocks.

i really like having magicians open, gem follow... broke zodiac into defeat feels necessary too... kinda like stride as a closer though?

broke into defeat needs to happen. that transition is incredible, it's the same chord.

otherwise, magicians as an opener and genies as a closer is perfect to me. Stride Right doesn't scream closer to me with it's current ending, especially since that would be two deakin closers in a row. would love this
1. Magicians from Baltimore
2. Gem and I

3. Peanut Butter Hearts
4. Kings
5. Stride Rite

6. Broke Zodiac
7. Defeat

8. New Song
9. Genies Open
SOUL CAPTURER HIDDEN TRACK

If I had to guess September 2023

It is legit heroic how much they're juggling right now (recording new album, releasing/promoting a new album, gearing up for a new tour, making music videos). The soonest they're gonna be able to mix this is July? Which is the usual length they take between recording and mixing no?

as far as we have heard they had 17 days of sessions back in october? november? which may or may not mean the record is done

as far as we have heard they had 17 days of sessions back in october? november? which may or may not mean the record is done

meysell wrote:

as far as we have heard they had 17 days of sessions back in october? november? which may or may not mean the record is done

Ex-fucking-cuse me? No way. If this is the case we might be seeing a release in Holiday 2022-2023. Please don't get my hopes up.

[edit] Are we certain them being in the studio wasn't to record stuff for Time Skiffs?

meysell wrote:

as far as we have heard they had 17 days of sessions back in october? november? which may or may not mean the record is done

Ex-fucking-cuse me? No way. If this is the case we might be seeing a release in Holiday 2022-2023. Please don't get my hopes up.

[edit] Are we certain them being in the studio wasn't to record stuff for Time Skiffs?

My guess is after the EU tour honestly. would be sick as hell to tour into a release, and honestly Id imagine they would finish recording up(if it's not already all done) after East Coast and before West Coast if Noah is just laying around, so November is my guess.

I have a hunch... and I have been wrong before.... that we will see THIS EP in between now and next LP:

"Cycles of Infinity" (Sept. 17 2022)

1 - Gem and I
2 - Peanut Butter Hearts
3 - Soul Capturer
4 - Danger!

My prediction is that the last song which was originally written by Noah to be on the "Reset" album with Pete didn't fit the vibe of the the rest of their LP. He brought a few new tunes to the AC boys but this one just really stuck out to them. In the chorus now Avey, Deak and Panda take turns cycling through their downward sequence of "Danger, Danger, danger, danger, danger, danger, daaaanger."

The cover art is drawing of a snake by Abby.

The music video is for Soul Capturer.

Soul Capturer ends with a 6 minute hurdy gurdy rendition of Sundown with Cecil.

It gets a 7.5 on Pitchfork.

feel like domino will pick gem and i as one of the singles for the next album, calling it now

Listening back to the post-skiffs blast stuff has got me thinking a few things: *wall of text*

Spoiler: show

What if Gem and I suddenly disappears from the setlists in March and never shows on the Skiffs followup. It really sounds like it could fit with Panda's Madrid stuff and it could see Panda wanting to avoid a Song for Ariel/Guys Eyes situation where it seems like maybe he was never fully happy with the way it turned out as a full-band effort.

This got me thinking further about Post-Skiffs and about AC's MO with new projects. I'll say upfront that if this is really intended to be a companion piece and will follow in quick succession this may all be moot, but --- Whenever our boys approach a new project they are looking for a new creative challenge, or at least a new area to explore. With the amount of time they've had this material, and the rate with which they have tired of recent material in the past, it would honestly seem really odd if the next album DOES sound like just more Skiffs (but live). Now doing an album remotely is enough of a challenge that maybe being back together would have felt like enough of a refresher for this not to matter, but still, doesn't feel totally like them. I'm just feeling like we may stand to see major changes for some of the most Skiffsy stuff, or omissions of songs we were sure would appear. Also, with Deak going to Drop of Sun recently too, clearly working on his own material, I wonder if maybe he was trying to nail down one or two more contributions to this next LP. Could we get as many as THREE Deak tracks?? I also really think we're still really likely to see something closer to the Music Box middle section on Defeat. Trying to not whip myself into a frenzy here, I just know the boys have never liked being tied to one thing for too long, so unless they're just trying to let this material free for worry that it will go to waste unrecorded, I have a feeling that this one will end up being a lot less predictable than it seems right now.