Collected Animals

Long time lurker, finally arrived at The Everywhere Place. Would anyone be inclined to send a Skiff my way, perhaps by a freedom flyer?

bc stuff gets manually set to release, it is entirely unpredictable

Ahh ok thanks.

Can I get that HQ Birdie? My Vinyl hasn't even shipped yet! I've also bought the album twice! Preordered on bandcamp digitally, then decided I wanted that ruby wax.

In Hand! Thanks!

So many thoughts but I gotta get these out there:

1. What the hell happened to car keys
2. Royal and Desire is without a question their best closing track

uh....Brother Sport would like to have a long word

This Passer-by is def a lot better in full quality and its place in the track list is starting to make sense to me. I think I'll actually be able to accept this version into my heart now.

^same. I can't even really picture what the old autotune/Fever Ray voice would even be like or if it'd "fit" on this record as is, meaning I GUESS I don't miss that anymore.

Might want the lyrics for that one the most, along with DS and R&D

Would appreciate the hq bird as well if possible, thanks!

Stan wrote:

moop wrote:

Damn, that voice tho~

I can only apologise...

I hope I at least pointed in the right direction!

Nooo it was sexy and beautiful lol

you MFs really NP'd Stan/Moop sexual tension SMDH

I know a lot of you guys don't care about reviews/reviewers, but on RYM Time Skiffs is currently sitting at 3.96/5 after 200 ratings, that's pretty goddamn high. Suppose this is before the flood of the uninitiated come in over the next few days. But it's awesome to see AC getting so much love. They deserve it.

This album is a triumph. I'm so happy for AC, for me, and for all of us. Rejoice.

I know a lot of you guys don't care about reviews/reviewers, but on RYM Time Skiffs is currently sitting at 3.96/5 after 200 ratings, that's pretty goddamn high. Suppose this is before the flood of the uninitiated come in over the next few days. But it's awesome to see AC getting so much love. They deserve it.

This album is a triumph. I'm so happy for AC, for me, and for all of us. Rejoice.

Haha it's currently #1 on the 2022 chart too, which like you said doesn't really mean anything, but its fun to see

Hey could someone send me that 320 please? Thanks!

Edit: Thank you!

would also appreciate that high def bird. i cannot wait!

d'augh i thought i could wait but my CD is taking an agonizingly long time to enter USPS' hands. if someone could dm me my day off would be in your debt

edit: holy moly, thanks y'all!

hoping to join in the fun here
edit: thanks so much for the PMs!!

I still find it very interesting that if domino picked the singles, that they picked three tracks in a row that each featured a extended ambient section

^it is kinda weird! maybe they give them loose suggestions or something, and they themselves suggested that that would work. Cuz songs like DS and Cherokee could seemingly totally be singles just as much as that middle stretch. Fantastic singles tho, gotta say.

Murphspree wrote:

I know a lot of you guys don't care about reviews/reviewers, but on RYM Time Skiffs is currently sitting at 3.96/5 after 200 ratings, that's pretty goddamn high. Suppose this is before the flood of the uninitiated come in over the next few days. But it's awesome to see AC getting so much love. They deserve it.

This album is a triumph. I'm so happy for AC, for me, and for all of us. Rejoice.

Haha it's currently #1 on the 2022 chart too, which like you said doesn't really mean anything, but its fun to see

this means way more to me than the random publication reviews. And of course it'll drop below Spirit and MPP's ranking once its actually out and settles, but yeah. You can't deny the average fan's perception of this era as a "comeback" as much as us old-head diehards would resist a simplification like that (some of us at least...)

God this is all so exciting. Restraining myself until Thursday evening at this point. I need to make that first listen real special. So sick to see how jazzed everyone is though.

Man, just wrote a beefy paragraph that just got deleted due to having to log in. Guess it's lost to time. Maybe that's a sign, y'all have summed it up perfectly anyway. This album is monumental. So glad we have it in high quality now. Makes such a difference.
Btw if anyone needs the HQ bird feel free to pm me.
P.S. Been lurking for a few months but only recently made it official with y'all. Excited to finally be a part of the convo!

I'd love an HQ crunchy bird boost iffin y'all git a chance to help an animal out....

xo

^it is kinda weird! maybe they give them loose suggestions or something, and they themselves suggested that that would work. Cuz songs like DS and Cherokee could seemingly totally be singles just as much as that middle stretch. Fantastic singles tho, gotta say.

floats wrote:

Murphspree wrote:

I know a lot of you guys don't care about reviews/reviewers, but on RYM Time Skiffs is currently sitting at 3.96/5 after 200 ratings, that's pretty goddamn high. Suppose this is before the flood of the uninitiated come in over the next few days. But it's awesome to see AC getting so much love. They deserve it.

This album is a triumph. I'm so happy for AC, for me, and for all of us. Rejoice.

Haha it's currently #1 on the 2022 chart too, which like you said doesn't really mean anything, but its fun to see

this means way more to me than the random publication reviews. And of course it'll drop below Spirit and MPP's ranking once its actually out and settles, but yeah. You can't deny the average fan's perception of this era as a "comeback" as much as us old-head diehards would resist a simplification like that (some of us at least...)

I predicted way back when that dragon slayer would be the lead single. I was way off

Vinyl still hasn’t shipped. Can anyone hook me up with the HQ?

Blasting car keys on my speakers and man this song really is fuckin sinister. So violent. Don't hurt me Panda.

Avey is absolutely so lovely though, the second part of the chorus turns the steamy junkyard into a wormhole with Dali clocks floating around, kinda see those like 50's cartoon cat clocks too. Love his Whaddit I Done hand-vocal Wawa thing at the end too

Keys into PJ also finally clicked into place for me also.

Ah, here it is. The last Bird Freed before release day. And it's a beautiful jump in quality. This is gonna be such as personal album for me. Saving best thoughts for after Friday.
But what a Hell of a ride.

Blasting car keys on my speakers and man this song really is fuckin sinister. So violent. Don't hurt me Panda.

Avey is absolutely so lovely though, the second part of the chorus turns the steamy junkyard into a wormhole with Dali clocks floating around, kinda see those like 50's cartoon cat clocks too. Love his Whaddit I Done hand-vocal Wawa thing at the end too

Keys into PJ also finally clicked into place for me also.

hell ya, that's exactly what CK is like. Sassy panda snarl into call-and-response bliss

the reviews of this are skewed by the "narrative". this is at least as good as strawberry jam and all that. what a god damn triumph.

Could a fellow skiffer also be gifted the HQ birdie? I'm stuck with Crosley for now. It would be mucho aprreciato'd

Thank you :

Was just going to post that Domino better send us the album in mp3 shortly. Can someone 320 me while my usps tracking still says 'label printed'?

Time Skiffs, which shipped earlier than anything else i have coming in the mail, is somehow going to arrive a full week from now, while the Microphones box set i ordered that was slated for late feb is coming tomorrow. fumbled ball lmao

Goes without saying but holy shit this album is psychedelic

I don’t dislike Car Keys but it feels the most changed out of all of them to me. Still trying to wrap my head around the album version sounding like that and them playing it the way they did back in September, feels like two different songs almost.

I listened to "24" and Walker/Appreciate less than anything, so to me it does sound super faithful to the live version. But I didnt obsess over it like Cherokee/Passerby

if someone would like to open the bird cage in my pms, would be much appreciated

bird for your boy??

got it, thank you!

Was thinking on how TS feels to me in comparison to the rest of their records. You know sound as a concept? The instrumentation and sound palette of MPP (as an example) is very sparkly with modulated synthesizers stacked on top of each other. Has a lot of aquatic sensibility to it but I don't really think it really goes too underwater. I never actually got that impression. MPP to me might take some tunes to the beach but there's also hanging out on the gazebo or sweating your ass off in a hotel/apartment (depends if you're listening to bluish or summertime clothes)

I think I would actually give TS the most aquatic of their releases. It reminds me of like a sea cavern. The instrumentation is mysterious but enchanting. The harmonic voices echo off the cavern walls. Panda's drumming can be heard so prominently like banging on the "walls" themselves. Carries a lot of the vibe of every track. There's a lot more instrument trickery than you know, electronic/synth ones. A lot of sounds seemingly come out of nowhere or sneak up on you. So much detail and expanse too.

Anyone suffering Demoitis about car keys- I had the experience of hearing it enough prior to understand it as a song but I never dug my teeth into it, and the studio version sounds exactly like my memory of it. So that bodes well for how familiarity may smooth away the new faults you feel in it

I listened to "24" and Walker/Appreciate less than anything, so to me it does sound super faithful to the live version. But I didnt obsess over it like Cherokee/Passerby

Totally having the opposite lol, 24 was immediately one of my favs from 2019. Gonna be interesting to see what energy they bring to it for the March shows

Walker is so nice

Need some fellow walker lovers in this thread

Walker is my fav track from TS

still hoping for a WAVebird over here ))))))))

want to hear RnD in electrovision

I've been so immersed in this batch of songs for the past couple years that I don't even really know how to comprehend Time Skiffs being an album that just, exists. It's an unavoidable part of this sort of hype: that eventually the music will go from a larger-than-life concept that can be as perfect and cathartic as your mind can imagine to being a simple static collection of songs anyone can go listen to on Spotify. This is the first time I've ever experienced that transition as an AC fan, and I'm curious to see how my feelings about it evolve as this release cycle recedes further and further into the past. In a way, listening to old bootlegs has allowed me to sort of vicariously have that experience with their other records—to swim in the primordial pools from which they materialized so to speak—but still, I wasn't actually there, and in each case I was fully familiar with the eventual finished product before tearing away the curtain and getting the full fanatical experience. This time it's the other way around, and I wonder if Time Skiffs and its followup will ever really register as studio albums to me, rather than as an intoxicating communally experienced world of sound of which official documents happen to exist.