Collected Animals

I love Spiderman 3

I know it’s not your song, but do you know why Prester John, an apocryphal Christian king from centuries ago, inspired this song?

I don’t. Seems like you’d expect a band to be talking about what the song means but we’re pretty guarded about that. I don’t know for what reason. Occasionally one of us will be like, “that’s a cool lyric, what were you thinking there?” I guess we’re trying to be respectful of each other. I don’t know what his Prester John thing is to be honest.

Slippi's Applesauce wrote:

unrecordednight wrote:

awesome wrote:

floats wrote:

Sounds like we may have collectively jumped the gun on the state of TS 2. Feels like there might be a lot of things undecided and unrecorded still.

yeah maybe but i also wonder if they're downplaying it to focus on ts1

yeah i'm now left wondering if what they recorded in december was a companion EP rather than a full length follow up. does 17 days of recording seem too short for an album or too long for an ep or could it go either way?

Don’t forget in that interview with panda and Avey from a few weeks ago they said they were in Brooklyn recording a sort of companion record. Not sure why panda is rewriting the narrative lol

Lol what if Domino was like "shut the fuck up actually".

wilandhugs wrote:

Slippi's Applesauce wrote:

unrecordednight wrote:

awesome wrote:

floats wrote:

Sounds like we may have collectively jumped the gun on the state of TS 2. Feels like there might be a lot of things undecided and unrecorded still.

yeah maybe but i also wonder if they're downplaying it to focus on ts1

yeah i'm now left wondering if what they recorded in december was a companion EP rather than a full length follow up. does 17 days of recording seem too short for an album or too long for an ep or could it go either way?

Don’t forget in that interview with panda and Avey from a few weeks ago they said they were in Brooklyn recording a sort of companion record. Not sure why panda is rewriting the narrative lol

Lol what if Domino was like "shut the fuck up actually".

lmfao can someone please link that interview where they talk of recording in brooklyn? might have missed

Something about the “always passing” line Panda sings at the end of “Passer-by” that rubs me the wrong way. Lightens it up too much. Want it darker.

Hi everyone,

I read the forum regularly and really appreciate the atmosphere here but, apparently, have posted just 3 times in the 6 years since registering . And one of those was earlier this evening. Anwyay, I love everything AC related but first impressions are this is their best record since MPP. So, working on the basis that what this forum needs is another poster breaking the album down track by track:

~ the last near minute of Dragon Slayer with all those bells and stuff in the background just builds to such bliss. Hard to let this one go, but we must.

~ the squiggly synths and 'How are we doing now?' Panda refrain in Car Keys are so nice. It's obvious but no less heart rending for that.

- those glittery synths behind the chorus of Prester John (I might be a synths guy), also the outro bit reminds me of Twin Peaks: The Return or something. This whole song just has a good vibe. Also:Deakness.

- If push came to shove, and wrong-headed as it is, I'd say my aesthetic was 60% Panda and 40% Avey, but as if those awkward little half-verses by AT on Strung With Everything aren't enough, he then flies in with Rev Green-level goodness in the outro (n.b.this is an album of gr8 outros n.b.2. the Panda drumming here is crucial). The way this song morphs from quiet calypso to raucous outro is a thing of beauty. Like, it literally makes my heart beat faster.

~ The bendy bass(?) prompts on Walker exemplify the way AC's decision making can sometimes be so simple and so right. This song is a bit smaller but tightly packed with good stuff. The Panda-Scott love, the almost Sleep-Cycle psych vibes, and the spoken word outro keep things tight. Plus, xylophone.

~ Cherokee - as other posters have noted, the drum step-up at 3.25 is a smiler, but then the real genius of the pause before the chorus straight afterwards and that reverby vocal/synth chorus. Well, it's quite something. That middle section is just sensational though, and moments like that are the reason this album will be in the top 3 on a lot of future top 10 AC Releases lists.

~ I love the big gong/cymbal crashes on Passer By. The song missed me a bit first time round and I wondered whether it would be the weak link on the album, but after a few playthroughs I think it's kind of great. Also, appreciate stan's thread/post o this song, which made me listen to it anew. And another killer outro. Man, they really gave this album such care.

~ perhaps the least integrated song on the album, but the chorus vocals are nice and I love the slower breakdown clicks and glocks 'sad for the sun' outro #we'rejustbeginning

~ finally, I love the lightness of Royal And Desire. That bit at 2.50 almost takes off. Perhaps, reading this forum, it doesn;t slay me quite like it does others, but I like the way it rounds off the album. But I see a lot of people saying this is the standout song and something's not quite clicking here. Needs more time, perhaps. But a beautiful end to a beaufitul album. Cool beans.



I mean. also, just to add to the love for the segues and interludes on this album, which just elevate it and make it such a coherent work as whole. I think there's an interesting experimental instrumental undertow to AC that really appeals to some fans' sensibilities.







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LOVE THE NEW ALBUM TOO MUCH, HOW COULD THEY DO THIS TO ME??

Fovrodi wrote:

I love Spiderman 3

That’s right.

Also this part of the Billboard interview Panda did is so funny. If anything just for the last line:

wrote:

I know it’s not your song, but do you know why Prester John, an apocryphal Christian king from centuries ago, inspired this song?

I don’t. Seems like you’d expect a band to be talking about what the song means but we’re pretty guarded about that. I don’t know for what reason. Occasionally one of us will be like, “that’s a cool lyric, what were you thinking there?” I guess we’re trying to be respectful of each other. I don’t know what his Prester John thing is to be honest.

I made a playlist that breaks up the Skiffs songs and slices in other music from the AC discography. Some of the transitions work really well, like Car Keys into Applesauce or Walker into Throwin' The Round Ball. Hearing the old and new played side by side does something special for me. It's like having the band's whole journey compressed into this wibbly wobbly, timey wimey thing. Maybe you'll appreciate it also.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6jisN ... eeeb254c86

If I buy the album on bandcamp, do the band get the money or does it go to domino ?

DownthereSwampthing wrote:

I made a playlist that breaks up the Skiffs songs and slices in other music from the AC discography. Some of the transitions work really well, like Car Keys into Applesauce or Walker into Throwin' The Round Ball. Hearing the old and new played side by side does something special for me. It's like having the band's whole journey compressed into this wibbly wobbly, timey wimey thing. Maybe you'll appreciate it also.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6jisN ... eeeb254c86

Really digging this! The transition from Cuckoo Cuckoo > We Go Back is pretty great haha

Dallou wrote:

If I buy the album on bandcamp, do the band get the money or does it go to domino ?

afaik domino still gets a cut. they're in control of the bandcamp page, with the exception (I think) of music box, 2 nights, the silver jews cover, and the painting with shows.

~ Cherokee - as other posters have noted, the drum step-up at 3.25 is a smiler, but then the real genius of the pause before the chorus straight afterwards and that reverby vocal/synth chorus. Well, it's quite something. That middle section is just sensational though, and moments like that are the reason this album will be in the top 3 on a lot of future top 10 AC Releases lists.

anybody who bought the vinyl from domino did you get a download code in the order or the email? not a slip in the lps i mean

anybody who bought the vinyl from domino did you get a download code in the order or the email? not a slip in the lps i mean

tdegenaro wrote:

anybody who bought the vinyl from domino did you get a download code in the order or the email? not a slip in the lps i mean

I think the download attached to the order itself is only for the singles and they want you to use the code from the card for the full album—I think in the past they'd usually let you download the full album from the order page though(?); I guess bandcamp purchasers still have that advantage fwiw