Collected Animals

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XsSOMdEbt0&t=6s[/youtube]

Here's the raw interview I did with Deakin last month, this was originally part of my podcast with Greg Phipps called "A Musician and A Filmmaker" where Greg interviewed Geologist as well. The interview was edited a bit for the audio only podcast but here is my full interview with Deakin on video and completely uncut.

I love how candid Josh is and how open he can be about his feelings and his insecurities. The man has a lot of feels. Check 56:47 where I ask Josh which of his bandmate's albums he would bring with him if he ended up on a desert island. Some of the answers may be expected and others not so much!

Enjoy!

Great interview, thanks for sharing!

Hope I'm not spoiling anything in saying it sucks the hard drives of full Music Box Village recording are missing. Pray they turn up

Been waiting for this interview since you mentioned it! Thank you! You asked a lot of questions we've been wondering about, so appreciate you voicing those to get some answers for them. Really fantastic interview, probably my favorite of the whole cycle.


What's this interview with Greg and Brian you keep referencing?

Thanks! So Greg and I did separate interviews (Me and Deakin, Greg and Geo) that we played back to back on our podcast.
Check it out: https://open.spotify.com/episode/07YbF0 ... XXOZIr5-uw

yo jordan love the pod, gotta throw some flowers your way despite panda being my favorite collected animal that self-titled has always been elusive to me but after the PB/Beau episode it was like the album was unlocked for me (also beau is afraid was fuckin' wild). thanks for the work and for doing a great show!

Thanks! Wow, Greg's interview with Brian is also really great. Potentially the most "fan that knows everything gets to interview AC" thing I've ever heard. Any time Geo would be like "have you heard..." Greg would be like "Ya and here's 5 facts about it" haha, so good. Just so good, that interview could've gone on FOREVER.

We need you two doing more AC interviews, those were fantastic! Is Greg on CA? Well done, both. Really enjoyed these. Felt like you both did a good job of expressing how so many of us mega-fans feel and how into their various projects we are. Can't say enough of how thankful I am for your questions and comments to the band and for sharing these.

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Sounds like Geo and Noah were really pushing hard for "Defeat" to be the closer as well as the album title. I wonder if that means Avey was with Deakin on throwing it in the middle.

Great to hear them mention New Psycho Activities too -- the Bug Mall bit was fascinating.

Also, I did not know they were in bands called Wendy Darling, or Dark Ages!

thanks for the interviews — nice to get brian's perspective, as it seems like noah and josh have done a good # of interviews

has dave done any/many interviews for IIN? i don't really remember reading/hearing any

This was a good one

New interview with Dave

Is Greg on CA?

I am on here! I’m usually just so busy with the discord server and the subreddit that I just can’t keep up with everything. Glad to hear y’all enjoyed the interview! Jordan and I did a follow up episode where we talk about Isn’t It Now? in full which will be up within the next week or so.

blindmowing wrote:

Is Greg on CA?

I am on here! I’m usually just so busy with the discord server and the subreddit that I just can’t keep up with everything. Glad to hear y’all enjoyed the interview! Jordan and I did a follow up episode where we talk about Isn’t It Now? in full which will be up within the next week or so.

Very cool, thanks for the heads up.

Are you a mod for the subreddit and discord or something? What's the discord like? Is it busy? Never checked it out...

I am on here!

one of my favourite AVs

Amazing work everyone involved!

What a community of absolute champions.

greg, jordan, if you guys ever want to do an episode on Jan de Bont's 1996 cinema classic Twister I am absolutely you're fucking guy. Twister and like, idk Greaper. Let's go.

Wow those were great interviews, always nice to hear geo’s insights on stuff. I’m here for Debussy with a Baltimore accent. Also really interesting to hear more about their relationship with the label

greg, jordan, if you guys ever want to do an episode on Jan de Bont's 1996 cinema classic Twister I am absolutely you're fucking guy. Twister and like, idk Greaper. Let's go.

I second this but with Bish Bosch by Scott Walker. Idk what movie to pair that with so let’s go with My Cousin Vinny

can y’all imagine if we were still waiting for this thing lmao

can y’all imagine if we were still waiting for this thing lmao

i would have met the grim reaper (figurative)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t14CwpC_7xI
Here’s our episode discussing the album with each other

Are you a mod for the subreddit and discord or something? What's the discord like? Is it busy? Never checked it out...

I’m a mod for both of those and the Spiritposting Facebook group. The discord is pretty active but has become a more general discussion place in the aftermath of the album’s release.

can y’all imagine if we were still waiting for this thing lmao

remember when we were thinking spring 2024

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwaKZGmE2BU&t=1s[/youtube]

Greg already posted this but I enjoy seeing the thumbnail in the post.

Listened to some of this, real good. Brian has always struck me as the biggest 'fan' of the band, in the band. Like, he's a head and will happily talk about all the nitty gritty stuff.

Regarding Oddsac streaming, would be cool if they just credited Danny on it. Like: ODDSAC - Animal Collective, Danny Perez. No idea of the logistics on that though

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwaKZGmE2BU&t=1s[/youtube]

Greg already posted this but I enjoy seeing the thumbnail in the post.

Oops I forgot how HTML works lol

playing my vinyl copy for the first time

the drums, man.

THE DRUMS

10/10 album, i'm so in love with it

my AOTY but then that's pretty much the case every year that a new AC album exists.

music video (of sorts) for broke zodiac

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XsSOMdEbt0&t=6s[/youtube]

Here's the raw interview I did with Deakin last month, this was originally part of my podcast with Greg Phipps called "A Musician and A Filmmaker" where Greg interviewed Geologist as well. The interview was edited a bit for the audio only podcast but here is my full interview with Deakin on video and completely uncut.

I love how candid Josh is and how open he can be about his feelings and his insecurities. The man has a lot of feels. Check 56:47 where I ask Josh which of his bandmate's albums he would bring with him if he ended up on a desert island. Some of the answers may be expected and others not so much!

Enjoy!

You are a great interviewer. Petition for all AnCo interviews to be done by members of this board.

Still can’t believe Magicians is a real song. It exudes the quality of some Great Lost Recording from a band’s heyday (not referring to AC specifically just a general vibe).
Like some piece of golden lore only found in the deepest caverns of a fan base surrounded with fantastical rumours. eg. an engineer burning the master tape in a fit of passion to prevent anyone else from hearing a piece of music so superb. Lodged in the back of everyone’s mind for years, decades even. Until…
Found covered in dust in the corner of some random-ass-dude’s attic. Ready and willing to be cherished by the world over, and just as superb as the engineer said it was.
Yeah… that’s Magicians

yeah...time skiffs has a modern polish, where iin? feels timeless like you described. a dusty forgotten gem you find in the attic. deep, mythological lore that's far beyond the current zeitgeist.

Spun this front to back a few times the past week, such a good experience. Kings Walk has really grown on me, it's got a bit of that early AC energy in that it feels very instinctual in the best way

Also the drumming adds a lot of replay for me personally, I love trying to pick out everything Noah is doing and feel like I find more to appreciate all the time

First AC told me I don't have to go to college, now they clown on me for having a 9-5.
Damn yall, sorry im just tryna live out here.

Also, ATCAB is the jam!!

dooo do-dooo do-dooo do-dooo

Your coffee is getting colder

First AC told me I don't have to go to college, now they clown on me for having a 9-5.
Damn yall, sorry im just tryna live out here.

Also, ATCAB is the jam!!

hysterical

Listened to Now for the first time in a month or so this morning and it still KICKS LIFE IN THE PINK BITS!

What an album. Absolutely lives amongst ACs best. Maybe not quite 04-09 but as close as you could possibly get and deeply meaningful to me.

Listened to Now for the first time in a month or so this morning and it still KICKS LIFE IN THE PINK BITS!

What an album. Absolutely lives amongst ACs best. Maybe not quite 04-09 but as close as you could possibly get and deeply meaningful to me.

YES

just came here to say........ had my first listen of this in 2024

IT'S FUCKING AMAZING

breathing life into my being, sonic magic, a melodious punch, adding new colors to my complexion, tacking days on to the end of my life, readying the ship for a beautiful afterlife....

Wish they'd put Defeat on the album.

What if that Moor Mother collage had been the only pre-release material we’d gotten? That would’ve been tantalizing and so fun to pick apart. A dream for the next album: to get some mashup of the full album and NOTHING ELSE.

What if that Moor Mother collage had been the only pre-release material we’d gotten? That would’ve been tantalizing and so fun to pick apart. A dream for the next album: to get some mashup of the full album and NOTHING ELSE.

Apparently that's kind of what PB had in mind for Mix Ticks but Domino put the kabosh on that