Collected Animals

Getting CD tomorrow!

I mean I could put mp3s on me.phone, but I want that disc

'19 Slayer was a bit more serene. But I love it. Maybe I'm just more mature now cuz I don't really much demoitis at all cuz I finally fully understand that I can just put on Blast sessions or Desert Daze whenever I want, like doy.

The album itself tho is a refined and incredibly flowing iteration of some of their best sets ever tho

awesome wrote:

where are some more INTERVIEWS i wanna hear avey talk more about this album, and i don't think there've been any with panda yet

Also still funny to me Avey made Bolder a song about hornieness and fuckin a tender little song about listening to records and like time and memories and stuff.

I don't miss those lyrics much but I still might miss the lyrics of Passerby... Eh, if thats my only complaint then thumbs up boys.

They could always do an EP with Broke and Gem + old live soundboards of "Bolder" and "Old Passerby" just sayin!

this is what i keep coming back to -- yeah there's still the other skiffs 2 stuff we know about but it's been so long since they wrote all of that material that they've inevitably written more, and working so closely together now that's probably what's exciting them more at this point. Would not be surprised if the March tour was a lot less Skiffsy than anticipated

DMed the writer.. the interview took place on 1/31 :\\\\\\ dang

bummed that he seems to imply that the december recording sessions might not have finished off all the tracks? i was hoping, but not anticipating, that skiffs 2 could already be in the can recording-wise. after TS, I'm so excited for the other tracks

Sorry, this is will inevitably be a massive wall of text. I’m sharing the mental imagery and the immediate feelings I get as I'm listening to the full album in high quality for the first time since a user demanded it as payment for the rip. Mainly for posterity but maybe someone will find it interesting or relate to it.

Dragon Slayer - The skiffs launch into a rushing waterway as a massive flying dragon soars over and between tall rocky jungle spires. There's a war starting but we're not there yet. We're ready and we're high on courage and fear.

Car Keys - We're now in traffic. The skiffs have transformed into coughing metal transport. It's a busy night in a crowded city. People with morphing faces stare at me, sending their scents of cigarettes, burgers and booze into my nostrils as I cruise by.

Prester John - I've stepped into a factory. A place that manufactures people or some sort of sentient being. There is an orchestrator of this process standing high above all. But the sentient beings rise up in defiance and begin to sing and plea to him to let them go. Where though? Out there to either save the world or end it.

Strung With Everything - Someone has asked us to gather together tonight. We're traveling way way out in the wilderness to get here. We're in the thick of trees somewhere in a mountainous landscape. We reach a blaze of orange light-- a massive bonfire. It's impossible not to take our shoes off and dance. The stars descend into our party and intermingle with the tall pines like fireflies. Worries about the world are replaced by love.

Walker - I'm alone now, stripped away from the crowd. I'm ambling along in some vague formless place but it slowly begins to materialize. A bright sunny sidewalk before me as I stride with confidence. I’m wearing comfortable clothes that fit me well and I feel like I’ve got a fresh start on something new. It won’t be easy but it’s got to be done.

Cherokee - That feeling of confidence has pushed me to a transcendent place. This isn’t inward or outward, it’s somehow both. Words have lost meaning. It’s like my mind is rifling through every file to pull reality back. I’m in a vehicle again, slowly trawling through a dusty village. I stop to have conversations from folks of all kinds that remind me who I am and where I come from. Tom Hanks is here for some reason.

Passer-by - Teleported to the farthest reaches of this world. I’m sitting still in heated pools within a temple. It’s been a long journey to get here. My body is failing and now is the time for rest. I feel shame melt away. I feel myself reconnecting with a core being that isn’t weighed down by the crushing expectations of modernity. I know I can’t stay this way forever but I’m here for now.

We Go Back - And then in a snap I’m shoved back into that modernity I finally had a break from. This time I have a better perspective and a fresher approach. I’m at a diner, then I’m in a deli, then I’m inspecting vegetables. The physical world has an organization to it that feels silly but I feel like a capable player in a strange and tricky game.

Royal and Desire - The road, the sidewalk, the waterway, all converge to a singular dirt road that ends at a white sanded beach before a sunkissed ocean. Sun is going down. I’m feeling as if I’ve had a million loves and my heart has broken with each one. But that’s how it is meant to be. I feel growth, I feel matured like a great tree that sees its own rings for the first time.

Man, isn't it so cool that we get to wake up every day and listen to Skiffs as much as we want? No longer do I have to cower before the foreboding threat of demoitis or restrain myself from overplaying singles and ripping them from the bigger picture.

Also, Skiffs is a 10/10 word.

how are you guys even able to fathom new new songs rn?!

It was my favorite day
Before the movie show
Until the fight broke out
In front of floral scenes
Faces got all bent up
“Beat him real good” she called

I saw a distant girl
Point at a hummingbird

https://lyricsfa.com/2022/02/03/animal-collective-dragon-slayer-lyrics/

this website has lyrics for new songs babayyyyyyy

this doesn't fit though - in the Blast sessions Deakin straight up listed all the songs they had yet to record, and said they would be recording them all "very very soon" and then they were in a studio for 17 days in Dec

so maybe there's even more material than we currently know about, and there's two albums' worth even after Skiffs?

I stood for a moment and the sun went down
I got sad for the sun cause I would get lonely
Leaving a trail of darkness on a world behind
And always being sun for a world beyond
That just begins

Over and over our song on my brain
I go back
We go back and I play it again
How far we go back is how forward we’ll go
It’s up to the Pleiades
And down the marrow