Collected Animals

I don't especially enjoy The Softest Voice, the weakest song on ST for me. It's a really slow, exceedingly light, not particularly emotionally engaging wisp of a song. It plays its part in the context of the album but I don't think I've ever played it on its own, ever. I'm going to do so in the bath now just to see if I'm a big idiot. In fact, I'm going to b2b it with Daffy Duck, which is basically the Feels equivalent, a little richer, a little darker. Very purple and navy compared to the pale lemon and tangerine of Softest Voice.

I didn't come around to The Softest Voice until after I got really into Pullhair Rubeye. I feel like it has really similar vibes to those tracks

Ugh I love softest voice so much. Took me awhile for Turn into Something, still don't really love the first half but it's so worth it to get to the second half... Like a daily routine coda in feels era. Summing the wretch is slowly growing on me 2, wasn't really a fan at 1st

Oh, yeah, I've never really listened to Turn Into Something properly, it's always just kind of been on while I'm coming down from the album. I find the country stylings of the first half a bit annoying and never quite got the transcendence of the second half. I'll be sure to add it to my bath time playlist. I just ended up having a shower today.

pumpkin gets a snakebite
infant dressing table
whaddit i done
daffy duck
must be treeman
taste - lp version (wasn't a big fan at first compared to the original boots, for obvious reasons)
friendship bracelet
duplex trip - same as taste
hocus pocus - wasnt impressed at first. loving it now

Oh, yeah, I've never really listened to Turn Into Something properly, it's always just kind of been on while I'm coming down from the album. I find the country stylings of the first half a bit annoying and never quite got the transcendence of the second half. I'll be sure to add it to my bath time playlist. I just ended up having a shower today.

Fuckin idiot. Second half kicking in now, like the sound of Feels melting. The first half is brilliant, vocals are so alive. I have a new favourite AC song.

I'm just trying to build hype for the 'coming around to' bit. Will report back from a hot, soapy bath.

No I was making a joke about you talking about your ejaculate

I don't know why I can't get into their jams that they place at ends of songs. Whether theyre slow or not. Turn into something, lying in the grass, this side of paradise, those endings really don't do much for me where as everyone says its their favorite parts.

My girls

Tikwid

I think I'm starting to come around to natural selection. It's a pretty great little jam.

I think I'm starting to come around to natural selection. It's a pretty great little jam.

same. I would never have guessed it too but it's become one of my favorites from the album. I actually think the Panda tracks on the album are super underrated, Recycling, Summing the Wretch, and Natural Selection are all in my top 5 tracks

been jammin hard to natural selection since day one

whaddit i done took a while for me

sneaky way-ay-ays

Bat You'll Fly took me ages, in fact. I even deleted it from my mp3 player for the first couple of years I listened to the album, I was just convinced I'd never want to listen to it. I found the outro really weird and cheesy, like kind of white man funk. Awful judgement. Turns out it's brilliant, surprise.

wow, that was one of the first songs I really liked on STGSTV

There you have it, the diversity of human experience

Tikwid

Whaaaaaat this song was so immediate to me

Wide Eyed / Father Time been growin on me a ton lately

Avey's imagery in the latter is intense

pulleys was the chz grower for me
fav song on the album now

I don't know why I can't get into their jams that they place at ends of songs. Whether theyre slow or not. Turn into something, lying in the grass, this side of paradise, those endings really don't do much for me where as everyone says its their favorite parts.

How could you not like the end of lying in the grass.. with that beautiful little synth arpeggio, drums, crazy samples, and the rythmic "disconnect" vocoder... youre nuts.

My Girls and Purple Bottle ..... I never really came around to My girls (of all songs, this is the one that put them on the map? ) and honestly its not like I didnt like purple bottle ..for whatever reason I never took the time to listen to it until maybe a year after listening to AC ...no need to explain my love for the song now haha

Honestly Brothersport would actually have to be the biggest turn around for me... I actually remember when i heard that song, it being one of the first ac songs, i hated it! it actually made me totally not even wanna go any further into them ...it took a couple months to creep back into AC with a different approach....then it was about 6 months or so after fully into them is when I started liking the song a lot!

I wonder how many more times i could've used the word actually ? hehe smh

Penny Dreadfuls is one that also really grew on me. I honestly didn't like it at all at first (sorry), I thought it was really boring musically, I wasn't that into the lyrics, etc...one day it just clicked though. Its still not my favorite on the album or anything but I look forward to it now instead of skipping it like I used to, its beautiful.

I can't ever remember much of the melody of PD, but the atmosphere really sticks with me, quite dark but pretty and airy and that zip kinda noise in the middle is really unusual, cuts right through the mix.

Summing The Wretch has really clicked for me now, it just sounds like a different balance of elements, like much of their stuff which settles into place and I hear it with fresh ears. I heard everything before but it all seemed like a flat 2D plane and Noah's vocals were irritatingly upfront. The hocketing seemed so heavy handed and the drums mixed too high. Now, it's all in its own place, Dave's vocals are really cool, form a kind of swirling whiplash effect into the next syllable from Noah. It's so full of energy, plus the second half is still killer.

Taste was always filler to me, until one day I was like, 'No wait, it's the best song on the album'. And it still is.

Don't have any other similar experiences cos I'm a true fan

i didn't like waddit I done until recently someone described it as some sort of 'hangover' track .. like most of the album was a really big pleasure and it could only be described as some sort of come down - I guess I can appreciate recycling in that same way. still don't really love recycling tho.
I also used to kind of not like daffy duck, but seeing it live and seeing aveys emotion backing that song up made it one of my favorites.
also hearing the live version of de soto de son made me love that song too.
still don't like father time at all tho.

i was pretty disappointed with centipede hurts until i heard painting with. i like pw ok, but for some reason it shined a light on the better parts of hz for me.

this has happened with other albums. like aphex twin's syro made me appreciate druqs so much more. after windowlicker, druqs seemed dull. but now i recognize it's pretty good.

same with ac. i think after oddsac, they're never going to top themselves (for me, in my humble opinion)

they're never going to top themselves (for me)

I really hope not.

Haha

i cant wait till everyone comes around on centipede like the death of van gogh.and everyone realizes its the best record ever created.

i don't know they're 0 for the last 4 for me. didn't care for slasher flicks or grim reaper either. i'm getting disillusioned they seem to have settled into this mediocore adult contemporary trying to recapture MPP but not getting there song rehashing. i do have bagels in kiev stuck in my head quite a bit.
god i hate being a hater. i really do adore the majority of their work.

tomboy as a whole i've grown to love deeply. i was really caught up in the bootleg hype back then, and even though when it dropped I listened to it a bunch and dug it, I never really got used to the production. the vocals in particular were just so different than what i was used to live. I was expecting something more stark, more in tune with the "triangle of vocals, drums, and guitar", but the tomboy that was released was something really different i think.
it's hard to describe, a lot of people call it dubby and i guess, but it really inhabits this weird, unique sonic space people don't go to a lot. a song like alsatian darn is really really really a big artistic achievement for anybody, but especially for panda. it's got a pretty tight and structured vibe, which if you consider the context of his work before this song. it's still got bite to it too, i remember those weird vocal effects being shat on when we first heard surfer's hymn and alsatian, but i've really come around to it. the groove that ends the track almost feels like a precursor to the pbvsgr stuff. (on that note, while they felt super different when I first them, tomboy and pbvsgr share a lot of similarities that i dig, probably thanks to boom's production. which is very immediate and great on pbvsgr, but took me awhile to really 'get' on tomboy)
but yeah tomboy is really great. high up there in the pantheon for me

great post. I think you're right that it inhabits a particular and weird sonic space. I love the scary noises in the background of Last Night at the Jetty, creates a really odd and unsettling mood

that post made me really want a nice gloomy day to listen to tomboy with. spoopy

I'm finally coming around to daffy duck

And I'm appreciating Transverse Temporal Gyrus more and more these days

turn into something finally clicked for me...and its so joyous..is damn beautiful. one of their only album songs that hadnt clicked for me and i feel like im experiencing a whole new song to overplay to the stars!!!!!!!!!

Quite a few songs on Feels (Flesh Canoe, Bees, Daffy Duck, even Purple Bottle) I found myself not enjoying on first listen. I remember the car I was in had a really poor sound system and I could barely hear Banshee Beat; I ended up loathing it based on that experience alone. Now I absolutely adore it, it's my 2nd favorite behind Fireworks.