Collected Animals

FBK isnt even a leftover album imo. they went back into the studio to finish it

FBK isnt even a leftover album imo. they went back into the studio to finish it

What Would I Want Sky was written for their 09 shows. Pretty 'new'. How do we have any idea when they started working on I Think I Can?

did panda play it at his solo shows before they recorded it?

Some of them. The first song is called "Graze", and it's one we've been playing live since we started playing the Merriweather stuff. It was in our original 2007 set of those songs. We definitely started recording it then. The last song on the EP is called "I Think I Can". They're just two songs that we wanted to take a little more time on. We usually have two passes on the songs when we're recording them. We'll go into a studio and record everything that we do live, basically, and do rough mixes. And then there's ideas that we take into the studio that we know we're going to do with the songs, and we're writing stuff as we go along. So we go back after we lay down the initial tracks for every song, which was 14 songs when we recorded Merriweather. We went back and decided what songs to work on right off the bat, and those two-- "I Think I Can" and "Graze-- we knew they wouldn't really fit on Merriweather, so we thought we'd put them aside until later.

The second song on the EP is called "What Would I Want? Sky", which is the one with the Grateful Dead sample that people have been talking about a little bit. I went there with the blueprint of the song, but we never really played it together. We didn't even really get to that one. We didn't talk about it, but we figured we'd come back to it. And then we started playing that song live this year. We jammed in Lisbon for our first tour this year and worked it out. We decided we would record it for the EP.

The third song is called "Bleed", and that's another one we've been playing this year that just came together really fast. I thought it would be cool to do something a little bit more droney for our tour to throw in our live set. We ended up just being pretty psyched on it. It's pretty simple, a kind of repetitive song. So we recorded that one.

The fourth song is called "On a Highway", and it's from the Merriweather era, too. We've done it on a BBC session. We started recording it during Merriweather, but it was the most like, "Whoa, this is definitely not going to fit on the record." It's got different vibes altogether. We changed it a little. We went into the studio in Brooklyn, a studio called Mission. Ben Allen, the guy we've been working with on Merriweather and these songs, has been working there a lot, and he's pretty familiar with it. It's got a really great live room, so there's a lot of that on the new stuff we've recorded. The drums sound really roomy and sweet.

Hey anco lovers, have u heard this CD? I 've got it as givin with MPP at some Tokyo's record shops exclusive. Amazing, great quality sound...lose my mind to listening with headphones. I' ve uploaded youtube on my page at last autumn already. If u not know yet, please check it, changing ur world surely !

so, as far as live goes i am a total novice. ofcourse i listened to some boots pre mpp and chz (got into the band in 2008) but i have no idea which boots are considered the best etc.
so, im planning on listening to stuff today, so if anyone could point me out to the best stuff it would be much appreciated.
emphasis should be put on quality, definitely not interested in bad recordings, so yeah...if you would be so kind to point me out to your favorite recordings.
my favorite thing from what i have listened is some amazing version of "leaf house" found on youtube. interested in any era, the only thing important is quality. so yeah, much appreciated.

y'all what's this
http://instagram.com/p/eRp-16E5FJ/
i hope some boots spring up soon, i need my dose of the forever changing sport brother

Spoiler: show

I haven't missed any new Avey/Deakin/Panda info, have I? The only threads I check up here now are this one and the pictures one.

I mean, it's not like we're gonna see Avey and Angel on TMZ or Access Hollywood or something like that. Though that would be cool.

yeah its something thatll be mentioned in passing in a future interview on their next album cycle "yeah and since avey had gotten married he was a lot busier" yada yada

thats what we wait for now

wait what


I ASKED if I'd missed any Avey info!