Collected Animals

hope it sounds exactly the same as mpp (rip deakin)

But honestly, more than anything all I want is just a new AC album.

Yep. It can be constructed entirely of Jonestown massacre samples and I will still love it like my own child

I know I'm not the only one who doesn't want an acoustic album next, but am I the only one who doesn't want a gosh darn flipping acoustic album next?

lol

breathing room please

certainly, right this way sir

next album is AC's footwork album in tribute to DJ rashad

More studio juice from avey

https://instagram.com/p/4oAqvSxwfp/

Anyone who says Ben allen is why they don't like the mixing of Hz is Ridiculous. The dudes always have last say and probably tweak things themselves so they get to a point where they all enjoy it.

omg if that's a fragment of a song...... I'm diggin it

Well no worries tropic, that shit ain't acoustic

More studio juice from avey

https://instagram.com/p/4oAqvSxwfp/

Anyone who says Ben allen is why they don't like the mixing of Hz is Ridiculous. The dudes always have last say and probably tweak things themselves so they get to a point where they all enjoy it.

Ben went in late at night and changed everything, every night, til they normalised it, like in Roald Dahl's The Twits.

Hahahaha

Yo where did that picture go? Somebody posted a pic of the guys (but not deakin) at a studio in LA, it was like sun drop studio or something like that. It was posted maybe an hour ago and now it's gone. No it wasn't that one from week or so ago with them sitting around

I think you're talking about drop of sun studios which is located in Asheville, NC. These were posted about a month ago

Any Deakin involvement registered yet? I've not been following this album build up, trying to avoid any details.

Doesn't look like it so far. I think someone posted at the beginning of the year that he was "recording his solo album in June"

Ha, who is that tagged @pandabear? Some random guy?

More studio juice from avey

https://instagram.com/p/4oAqvSxwfp/

Anyone who says Ben allen is why they don't like the mixing of Hz is Ridiculous. The dudes always have last say and probably tweak things themselves so they get to a point where they all enjoy it.

man that sounds so CHz-ey

like too CHz-ey

woah so deakin is sitting out to finish his solo album?? i hadnt connected the dots really. so we gettin 2 albums instead o one in the same timeframe. u can do it deak we love you!!

appy halloween wrote:

More studio juice from avey

https://instagram.com/p/4oAqvSxwfp/

Anyone who says Ben allen is why they don't like the mixing of Hz is Ridiculous. The dudes always have last say and probably tweak things themselves so they get to a point where they all enjoy it.

man that sounds so CHz-ey

like too CHz-ey

man how are they in the studio already? CRAZY!

do bands make demos in studio ??

first record not performed live at all prior to recording ?? they seem to enjoy changing the process for every record. the best c hz and slasher flicks tracks were studio creations so I feel positive abt it

do bands make demos in studio ??

I feel like making a demo in studio would be a waste of money. the purpose of the demo is to show the other band members, engineers, producers, or label execs an early sketch of a song so that everyone has a good idea where things are headed before entering the studio

first record not performed live at all prior to recording ?? they seem to enjoy changing the process for every record. the best c hz and slasher flicks tracks were studio creations so I feel positive abt it

I believe Spirit was recorded and released before any song was preformed live
If you don't count the glasslands show with avey, deakin, and Kria, oddsac was only worked on in studio
And New Psycho Actives vol. 1 has never been played live

shit that clip is so sick
vague broadcast/ghost box vibes? idk why really but a lil

y'all are talking like Ben Allen Phil Spector'd AC and made them approve final mixes. it's fine. don't worry. i'm sure whatever they do next will be dope

michael wrote:

do bands make demos in studio ??

I feel like making a demo in studio would be a waste of money. the purpose of the demo is to show the other band members, engineers, producers, or label execs an early sketch of a song so that everyone has a good idea where things are headed before entering the studio

wrote:

first record not performed live at all prior to recording ?? they seem to enjoy changing the process for every record. the best c hz and slasher flicks tracks were studio creations so I feel positive abt it

I believe Spirit was recorded and released before any song was preformed live
If you don't count the glasslands show with avey, deakin, and Kria, oddsac was only worked on in studio
And New Psycho Actives vol. 1 has never been played live

I'd count glasslands for sure, the last song they played which turned into Mr. Fingers was a classic example of an early live version of a song

although I guess it wasn't called an Animal Collective show. It's like if Deakin played Wide Eyed on his own but they didn't play it as a band until recording.

I believe Spirit was recorded and released before any song was preformed live
If you don't count the glasslands show with avey, deakin, and Kria, oddsac was only worked on in studio
And New Psycho Actives vol. 1 has never been played live

while this is all technically correct (I think), I would say those are all special cases. Spirit is basically an avey solo album w Panda on drums. Oddsac wouldn't have been performed live (besides glasslands) because it wasn't intended to be separated from the visuals - same reason they didn't release it as a standalone album. and New psycho actives I think was just sort of a one-off thing that avey and geo did for fun

But for all of their "proper" studio albums, they've played the material live before releasing the album, starting all the way back w danse and campfire songs. so if they recorded their next album before anyone heard any of the songs it would be a pretty significant departure imo

Texas Trill wrote:

I believe Spirit was recorded and released before any song was preformed live
If you don't count the glasslands show with avey, deakin, and Kria, oddsac was only worked on in studio
And New Psycho Actives vol. 1 has never been played live

while this is all technically correct (I think), I would say those are all special cases. Spirit is basically an avey solo album w Panda on drums. Oddsac wouldn't have been performed live (besides glasslands) because it wasn't intended to be separated from the visuals - same reason they didn't release it as a standalone album. and New psycho actives I think was just sort of a one-off thing that avey and geo did for fun

But for all of their "proper" studio albums, they've played the material live before releasing the album, starting all the way back w danse and campfire songs. so if they recorded their next album before anyone heard any of the songs it would be a pretty significant departure imo

You're definitely right that all those releases are special cases, however I don't think new psycho actives is a one-off. I'm caustiously optimistic that NPA vol. 2 will see a release around the Autumn Equinox of this year with Noah handling a summer influenced song and josh doing one for autumn. perhaps that's when we'll get a psychical release of both volumes bundled together, so that the boys can make some money off of those songs (though maybe they want to keep them free and digital for licensing purposes)

To continue speculating, maybe NPA 1 was the start of a new AC era and we didn't even relealize it, one that is electronic beat driven and one which we see them focus even further on studio experimentation. For this next LP, they could be looking to change up their creative process by publicly avoiding messing with the songs live before the release, for the purpose of lessoning the prolonged hype, surprising the fans and trying something new. And although this seems unlikely, but who knows, maybe these new batch of songs will never be preformed live and that the next time they tour, AC will be a 4 piece and they will already be playing completely brand new jams.

I know, that's a lot of maybes

I'm not 100% on this, but didn't Avey say to someone on Instagram that the Psycho Actives were a once-off, and that he and Geo made them in, like, 2013?

I think Avey made his in 2013 but geo's was more recent

Hadn't read that before but I found the quote from 14 weeks ago:

I would like there to be many volumes honestly but it's an old idea that just came to fruition so somethings take awhile to bloom. My trk was actually recorded in 2013. Geologist and I have talked about recording the summer/fall follow up for sure.

Still think it would be rad if they got josh and Noah involved

Me too. Doesn't sound like it'll happen that way, but you never know.

I think you're talking about drop of sun studios which is located in Asheville, NC. These were posted about a month ago

A 505 and Geo rocking the Hausu shirt what is this 2011 ayyy lmao

5FIVE5

Oh yeah duh what am I talking about!

There's a new photo on Avey's Instagram that shows everyone minus Deakin. I'm guessing that's the final nail in the coffin for if he's on this one. I was upset about that for a second then remembered the Deakin solo album that may (?) come out soon. I mean unless there would be another reason he's sitting out of this one.

Ooh my god what am I doing I just spent all last year on the hype train for PBVSGR I can't do this again

Ummm have you guys seen this off Abby Portner's instagram??? Is this the boys??? If so what song??? Is that THE DEAK????

or am I just mistaken...

https://instagram.com/p/4sVhcqE5M1/

Yup, geo singing

where did you see geo singing in that clip?

https://instagram.com/p/4sVhcqE5M1/

this is a regram of a post from this instagram account: https://instagram.com/missmedia57

The song is a cover of Femme fatale by the velvet underground

it doesn't look or sound like it has anything to do with AC to me

I know it's fun to speculate but cmon guys take 2 seconds to fact-check

Yup, geo singing