Collected Animals

Love the piano :')

Yeah it sounds great, almost makes me wish it turned into an AC song. I think this one is my favorite sound pallet out of the singles so far.

Separate note I'm listening to the inspirations playlist for this record and it's great, good way to get excited for friday.

L&Q review is positive! https://www.loudandquiet.com/reviews/avey-tare-7s/

This one (and to a lesser extent the musical) didn’t click with me at all but I think I’m not really on the Avey songwriting wavelength right now. Just a bit of a squirrelly mess with no real glue holding it together. Hey Bog still has me hopeful for the rest of the album though

This one isn't clicking with me immediately either, but I absolutely love the sounds he's putting out. This will be a grower.

First time an album opener of his hasn't been a showstopper for me.

Can't decide whether to listen. Leaning towards just waiting

I'd say just wait, reminds me when he dropped Hors_ just before Cows came out

I would probably wait, just 4 days away. I like this new song quite a bit but I do get the impression it would be better hearing it altogether.

this is the Avey record for people who love Avey vox smothered in FX and like when he's not too fussy about what instruments he's allowed to use on any given release.

This is the Avey record for people who want to get into 80s genesis

Love the piano :')

Same, it's so good

avey's doing an AMA on r/indieheads on wednesday @ 1pm eastern per his insta

really sounds like a lil chorus of deakin voices in the bg at some points??

Love it

Also this is a very sweet song, lyrically. Little Fang’s Invisible Darlings

lyrically reminds me of golden gal too in addition to little fang, songs of encouragement to others

not really digging it, wasn't crazy about the musical or hey bog either, but ah well that's just my tastes i guess. i'm sure there will be something on the album that will blow me away, there's always gold on every ac release

I’m enjoying it, nice little bop to it. But I’ve spent the last 9 years chasing the high that hearing a sender for the first time gave me

Really like the video for this song too, and I feel like I haven't been that big on some of Abby's video work in the past.

Invisible Darlings is my favorite one yet, but Avey is 3/3 on these new tunes. Most hyped I've been for one of his records since Down There.

Just loving the mix of dark/light elements, feels very playfully experimental and like he felt a lot of joy making the tunes...I get a lot of joy from these tunes

This is gorgeous stuff. It's exactly what you want avey songs to be. Shaggy, a little damp, squiggly a lil warped but actually this is psychedelic children's melodies. But this also bespoke, lyrically dense, structurally weird and lushly recorded soooo wow

This is the best avey album now. Avey has dug deep into himself to present the avey that lives beneath avey (as we.knew him before)

His songwriting is having midlife preak, this song is on some point between Defeat and ??? written in like 2027 at the end of this golden era

This makes good on the hint at Chucky cheese nightmare dreamcore hinted at by funnyman and that other Chucky cheese song from that era https://youtu.be/9m_HKmMKK3U

This album might be like if yr aunt took you to chukee cheese and u had a fever and cough syrup

wow invisible darlings made me really happy. theres something really addicting about this and the musical. the production is so lovely, and yeah it really feels like the quintessential avey record so far.

It exemplifies a particular tranche of his solo work:

In the absence of compositional inspiration, stay jaunty and recycle.

Slasher Flicks plays Disc One. Much ado about nothing. AI songwriting.

I don't begrudge him churning out this amalgamated muscle memory froth.

He can do as he pleases.

^^

Least sad Avey Solo material here we come, I am ready for it

Stan I can absolutely see where you're coming from, and pretty much get why anyone might not be all that impressed by these tracks, but also I love Slasher Flicks and Disc One is maybe one of my favorite studio tracks from the entire Cows/Birds era, so I'm having fun.

It exemplifies a particular tranche of his solo work:

In the absence of compositional inspiration, stay jaunty and recycle.

Slasher Flicks plays Disc One. Much ado about nothing. AI songwriting.

I don't begrudge him churning out this amalgamated muscle memory froth.

He can do as he pleases.

so offfffffff. fucking fool. i basically "hate" u now. what was the last time solo avey even WAS jaunty other than disc one. disc one is good but its nothing compared to these. these taste so good to my ears.

Happy Valentine's. Glad you're enjoying.

If the other tracks are on the same level as the three ones that have already been released, this might turn out to be my favorite avey record.

the world would be a better place if we got more jaunty avey tunes

but even then the plebs probably wouldn't appreciate them, like when Father Time was considered a low tier CHz song. proper nits (is that a british term? idk sounds good)

The Musical and Hey Bog are quite a bit ahead of Invisible Darlings for me. There’s a lot less texture to this one. Still digging the album’s overall vibe though.

Hey Bog a real outlier amongst the singles. Hoping for more in its style rather than the other two but I think generally 7s is going to reach in all kinds of directions

To be clear, I'm not criticising anyone who enjoys this song, or The Musical. The older I get, the more I believe in live and let live. Dogs will merrily eat each other's dogshit, for example.

well ill pray for u and also i like studio jabba just fine

I feel like a lot of Avey's songs as of late have had a problem of being too long without enough interesting changes or variation to justify the length. The Musical, which I do love, kind of suffers from this as well. However, Hey Bog does a great job of justifying its length (that bridge), and this new track is short enough that it doesn't wear out its welcome either. It took me a few listens to really get into it, but atm I'm in love with Invisible Darlings.

I think this album is going to be a nice slight change of pace for him. I'm very down with something a little more breezy and feel-good.

it feels like more is always going on which for me, I like Cows but I think on there and Euc he was pushing negative space and sparsity where this feels like Skiffs songs getting dunked in the DT/Slasher fun house after effects with a bunch of sick bells and whistles.

I just love it. I'm gonna live inside of this album next week

theres also a lyrical cohesiveness, clarity and density that im enjoying as well

I will say that between these 3 we're not really getting like a more emotional or sadder, more emo Avey? A ballad-y Avey. But like, yknow I assume that will cum thru on one of em at least. I also wouldnt be surprised if after Defeat he doesnt actively try to write a strait-forwardly somber song for a while

I just love it. I'm gonna live inside of this album next week

it's out in three days man

The Disney moment is on Darlings btw

Very interested by how polarizing this song seems to be, lol. Only 2 and a half more daysssss!!!!!!!! (for US)

dio wrote:

I just love it. I'm gonna live inside of this album next week

it's out in three days man

Incredible. Next week's better for me tho