[StrangeClams]

rampface you really love centipede hz don't you

[rampface]

If you check out my last.fm page, I've listened to it every day for the past couple of months...probably since it was released. I can't explain it.

[terrestrialjane]

Centipede is the shit. Anybody with any disagreements can contact me and we can work out a deal I'm sure ; )

[Stigmata89]

Ben Allen should become the fifth member of the band. He did an impeccable job mixing this masterpiece.

[Stigmata89]

One of their greatest works.

[hatredcopter]

Moonjock (instant classic) > Rosie Oh > Honeycomb > etc

[Yegarma]

Stigmata89 wrote:

Ben Allen should become the fifth member of the band. He did an impeccable job mixing this masterpiece.

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[MFpotus]

Stigmata89 wrote:

Ben Allen should become the fifth member of the band. He did an impeccable job mixing this masterpiece.

lol i love this post

[dansinmanatee]

Mercury Man is still one of my favorites by them. This was the first album they released when I knew who they were so it holds a special place for me.

Love Avey's theremin vocal outro on this one and the live@pitchfork one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EMtKgmRnQo

Anyone know what effects processing he did for his vocals on the album/performances?

Good memories of the pre-release CHz radio stream.

[StrangeClams]

the fuckin purple pedal mayne

[dio]

^ Yeah I love Mercury Man. That, TS and Applesauce are the cream of the crop for me.

I think every time new AC related material comes out it makes me hype their most recent stuff more and like see it in a new light, so Little Fang I think has triggered a rekindled love of CHz. Such a goddamn good album.

[Stanshant]

Stigmata89 wrote:

Ben Allen should become the fifth member of the band. He did an impeccable job mixing this masterpiece.

Ben's website is http://www.MakeRecordsNotBombs.com

The subheading asks 'Are you a creator or a destroyer?'

Think about that.

He actually thought that he needed to spell out the meaning of the website address he registered.

He took some time, pondered and came to the conlsuion that he needed to clarify his laughably black and white perspective of reality.

I saw his dog had died on his website and I thought that's what you get for dropping bombs, mate.

This next bit will only make sense if you've looked at the website:

The dog probably got hypothermia from being in the bath with him all the time.

Karma (a reference to his bathtime Buddha bubblebath buddy).

Edit: I genuinely feel bad about using his dog like this to make a joke at his expense. Sorry, dog.

[New Zealand]

lol

I saw you'd posted in the Centipede Hz thread and I knew it would be a post about Ben Allen



can't believe anyone thinks he should be in the band though

[Stanshant]

Yeah, I definitely enjoy this joke more than I hate Ben.

Stanshant wrote:

came to the conlsuion

[cut to colin's house]



"I GOTTA FEELIN"

[P nu]

Stigmata89 wrote:

Ben Allen should become the fifth member of the band. He did an impeccable job mixing this masterpiece.

kinda a stretch

[snowtire]

listening to pre-chz boots again and wow were the lyrics different
also remember the old vocal melody on monkey riches? it was cool

[Ethmin]

yeah stan that dog thing was about as low as you could go

that said I hope Ben is done with AC

[Stanshant]

Challenge accepted

[New Zealand]

I hope AC is done with Ben

[Stigmata89]

Slashman wrote:

I hope AC is done with Ben

If anything, Ben is done with ac. They're not worthy of his genius production, and quite frankly, he knows it. He'll move on to make more modern marvels like the new youth lagoon album, while ac is left in the dust.

[New Zealand]

lol okay, okay

[El Camino]

Stigmata89 wrote:

modern marvels like the new youth lagoon album

lol

[StrangeClams]

i liked that album

[Vovenarg]

that's an incredible album

[clayton]

i like a few of the songs on wondrouse bughouse but some i cant really listen to and hes sorta annoying on social media

[El Camino]

I don't hate that album but I just found it funny that someone would call it a modern marvel.

[_dAMP]

I love that YL album but why people have to talk in those absolute terms so lightly?

modern marvel, instant classic, album of the year, of the decade, of the century...

It's like any person on the internet is declaring what's going to endure in human culture five times per day

[jusswerjk]

I think Animal Collective itself is kind of a marvel but I don't think any one record alone would qualify.

[dansinmanatee]

snowtire wrote:

listening to pre-chz boots again and wow were the lyrics different
also remember the old vocal melody on monkey riches? it was cool

yeah the early versions on the pkfest 2011 boot are fucking amazing

the extended synth intro/outro on gotham/frights (I love the early titles) is banging!

[Yegarma]

honestly the biggest "issue" i have with ben allen is that it seems he's really good at adding stuff to a band's sound (like how he did on mpp - if i remember correctly, those songs were a lot less dense before ben's involvement) but he's not so good at mixing / working with songs that are already super dense (like the chz songs were before the band went into the studio).
but idk. that's just my personal take on his abilities as a producer.

[dansinmanatee]

Meriweather and centipede were the only two he produced right?

It sounded like the band wanted that dense, layered sound for those records. I do love the sparse, elongated live versions of the merriweather stuff. What examples from centipede stick out as over-production, or the whole thing? The live versions of centipede stuff definitely have more power and clarity, especially ones like moonjock.

[Tico]

how come honeycomb/gotham sounds so fucking good but chz doesnt

[Stanshant]

Ben took that day off for his dog's funeral

[lucasmoreira]

dansinmanatee wrote:

Meriweather and centipede were the only two he produced right?

and Fall be Kind and Honeycomb/Gotham/Crimson

[Yegarma]

dansinmanatee wrote:

What examples from centipede stick out as over-production, or the whole thing?

centipede doesn't necessarily sound over-produced to me, but i do feel that there's a lot going on in the middle ranges. listening to the boots, i kind of got the sense that the band had a better idea of how to make all the sounds they were working with fit into a much wider range. on the album, it sounds to me like all those sounds were kind of stuffed into the middle ranges, which made it feel really... claustrophobic or overly-dense, i guess? I'd have to go back and re-listen to the album and the boots to get specific examples, though

by no means am i saying i disliked chz, i just feel it could've been so much better if the band had stuck to the live production/mixing they'd been working with on tours. i'd agree with tico and stan that honeycomb/gotham/crimson turned out stellar, but overall the studio versions of these songs fell a bit flat for me

[colin]

they got it right they couldnt have gotten the live band feel any better

[colin]

Yegarma wrote:

dansinmanatee wrote:

What examples from centipede stick out as over-production, or the whole thing?

centipede doesn't necessarily sound over-produced to me, but i do feel that there's a lot going on in the middle ranges. listening to the boots, i kind of got the sense that the band had a better idea of how to make all the sounds they were working with fit into a much wider range. on the album, it sounds to me like all those sounds were kind of stuffed into the middle ranges, which made it feel really... claustrophobic or overly-dense, i guess? I'd have to go back and re-listen to the album and the boots to get specific examples, though

by no means am i saying i disliked chz, i just feel it could've been so much better if the band had stuck to the live production/mixing they'd been working with on tours. i'd agree with tico and stan that honeycomb/gotham/crimson turned out stellar, but overall the studio versions of these songs fell a bit flat for me

lol adjust ur eq noob

[Yegarma]

lol nah

[Miss Amanda Jones]

The problem with CHz necessarily isn't the production... it's just that the songs aren't as consistently good as previous releases. Too many mediocre melodies.

[Stanshant]

Yep. I agree with that.