[coollodges]

on first listen my gf said the lil sax fill reminded her of this

[archie]

Stanshant wrote:

I found the sax noodling really funny the first time I heard it, like it's almost Tim and Eric level of crapness mixed with absurdity. I mean absolutely no disrespect by that because they've obviously chosen to have him play some pretty meek and meandering weird little trill. It just happens to have blindsided me because the way the track slows to beckon in the instrumental break makes you feel he's going to blast through the mix with this powerful driving melodic line like THE BIG MAN CLARENCE CLEMONS but it comes in like Sarah Palin's drunken fart, uptight and squeaky but escaping the vain clutches of her clenched anus because she's eaten some dodgy frijoles. Wait, why do I have an absolutely throbbing erection right now?

so weird expecting the music to do something specific dont u think? esp when its ac's music?

[joby]

i think the sax is great, such a different kinda sound than we're used to on an AC track. i love how it wiggles through the air (kinda like some farts i guess?)

[Vovenarg]

great, now when i hear it all i'm gonna be able to think about is a fart

[preacherben]

fart noises in music can be pretty good imo. idk a lot electronic music has pretty fart-y sounding synths and stuff

[thebackdrifter]

preacherben wrote:

fart noises in music can be pretty good imo. idk a lot electronic music has pretty fart-y sounding synths and stuff

My fav aphex tracks(outside ambient stuff) are usually the farty ones.

[TetsuoUnderFire]

weirdradio wrote:

TheElvinWarrior wrote:

maybe whoever's playing it is just that good

His sounds are from another planet

This is absolutely fucking awesome.

[Freak]

tight that they're bringin Colin to the people

[TB8S]

I think the sax adds a very important element to the track.

[cujo]

joby wrote:

i think the sax is great, such a different kinda sound than we're used to on an AC track. i love how it wiggles through the air (kinda like some farts i guess?)

Was randomly listening to Chocolate Girl and it's encrusted with sax sounds all throughout are they samples or live manipulated sounds by geo?

Edit: Just occurred to me that geo was not on this album

[weirdradio]

Synth hits in New Town Burnout might as well be a sax or a trumpet
They have dabbled in similarly sonic areas
Colin's playing is so damn perfect and rhythmic and tasteful on LITYG

Side note:
What Would I Want Sky is the only tune played on an actual bass
Does Avey hate those too?

[terrestrialjane]

Tb8s .... your cig is gr8 m8

[jetski]

For some reason during the verses of this song when they do the back-n-forth it reminds me of the way 0pn chops up vocal samples

Spoiler: show

[coral lord]

this song is such a grower, man i can't get enough of it.

[roopn]

favourite moment in the track is the little ascending percussive thing at 1:59 leading into the "get mixed in this crippling fixture" bit. SO satisfying... and really hard to describe. Sounds like an alien inhaling really quickly or something idk

[vilent_sibrate]

weirdradio wrote:

Synth hits in New Town Burnout might as well be a sax or a trumpet
They have dabbled in similarly sonic areas
Colin's playing is so damn perfect and rhythmic and tasteful on LITYG

Side note:
What Would I Want Sky is the only tune played on an actual bass
Does Avey hate those too?

Pretty sure the end of Graze has actual bass. You can hear the pickups in some parts.

[roopn]

vilent_sibrate wrote:

Pretty sure the end of Graze has actual bass. You can hear the pickups in some parts.

idk man it's a bit iffy. I see what you mean but it's so buried it's hard to tell. plus that synth in unison half the time means you can't hear for sure

[alexpiercey]

Does anyone here "please stick 'em up" ("police, stick 'em up"maybe?) repeated over the last few beats? I keep singing it to myself at that part and I need to know if I'm going crazy.

[jetski]

alexpiercey wrote:

Does anyone here "please stick 'em up" ("police, stick 'em up"maybe?) repeated over the last few beats? I keep singing it to myself at that part and I need to know if I'm going crazy.

yes totally! that part adds so much

[Tropic]

tratar o sangue!

[roopn]

Tropic of Cans wrote:

tratar o sangue!

fucking brilliant lyric

[Andrew_VB]

so the liner notes on the LP i received list colin stetson as only contributing to "floridada." anyone have any idea who the sax (or similar) sounds in this song come from?

[Sam]

Someone posted in the main thread (I think) that they asked Avey and he mentioned the sax in this song is a sample Geologist found and they decided to keep it.

[Tropic]

Avey mentioned to someone that it was a Geo sample they 'made him keep in it'.

[Andrew_VB]

aha, thanks.

[jetski]

Tropic of Cans wrote:

Avey mentioned to someone that it was a Geo sample they 'made him keep in it'.

I bet Brian was so fucking pissed

[Frumpkin]

Victor Borge wrote:

Tropic of Cans wrote:

Avey mentioned to someone that it was a Geo sample they 'made him keep in it'.

I bet Brian was so fucking pissed

that made me choke on my coffee. now its on my shirt. thanks.

[dug]

my fav on this album

[lotus jet]

alexpiercey wrote:

Does anyone here "please stick 'em up" ("police, stick 'em up"maybe?) repeated over the last few beats? I keep singing it to myself at that part and I need to know if I'm going crazy.

This confirms what i wanted to ask: Is this song about racism and the need for those of us who are white to approach the conversation as a dialogue to overcome the essential root of the problem.

wrote:

All the pieces where they ought to be
but it’s clear that he don’t look like me

We're all made of the same things, but our skin color reminds us of the difference in terms of the other person "not looking like me", or White as the dominant versus skin of color as the subordinate, which creates in the human brain the primitive/superficial understanding of appearance as the humanizing (or dehumanizing) factor.

wrote:

Pick a place around the table talk
make a push to wake the comatose

Be engaged and involved in the conversation about approaching and destroying racism by awakening ourselves to our inherent, socioculturally constructed racial bias.

wrote:

Say you pause to say what’s wrong and quickly
blow up the cover
There’s a way through fogs as long as there’s a light to discover (it)

When you're caught being racist, aka, unconsciously/accidentally invoking the deep-seated racism that has been built into you by society and your own behaviors (whether directly re-inforcing those views through racist acts or passively not challenging them as the dehumanizing evil they embody) and how our racialized, anti-black, white-centric culture views it as "blowing your cover."

But realize that in that moment when you're stumbling through the fog of your brain looking for an excuse to avoid being called racist, it should be the time for you to look to the "light" of truth and understand you need to challenge the evil nature of racial prejudice.

wrote:

Like a twisted stick, let’s dig through the sick and find a level space
Cinch to say

This ones a little tough —and i guess i should say that with this analysis i'm in no way claiming to be an expert on racial politics and deconstructing white supremacy. I feel its necessary to talk about this and hope this will only open further dialogue rather than seem like im trying to soapbox a song meaning — but i think its simply put: dig through the shit and create true equality.

wrote:

It’s a gut that fears all things unknown
and a link within the brain you know

Again, pointing at our body's designed prejudice response to dealing with the unknown, that we engrained within ourselves as humans over thousands of years of history, of interacting with one another, this fear because we didn't really know the truth that we are the same being humans, yet just different most apparently in skin color.

wrote:

Not a shame to say the instincts there
but a virtue to deny the bait

It's the result of a naturally-existing function in your body and brain, so of course we can't be merely ashamed of ourselves. Can't really understand what the second line means just yet, maybe like, you can use the quality to understand the triggers of racism in you and "deny" their bait, aka, transform it within yourself.

wrote:

Know the cause and move to gauze and deftly
tratar o sangue (clean up the blood)

Understand the root, heal the wound against your own humanity it has created (since dehumanizing someone else is in itself inhumane).

wrote:

In the law there’s room to move
as there’s a need to uncover it

Things need to change legally, too, not just individual people. Racism is an institutional phenomenon, it is a result of people's prejudice combined with their power as the dominant culture in society to legally disenfranchise and discriminate Black People and other People of Color (though I want to focus on Black People, just to speak truly against anti-Blackness as Blackness is viewed as the extreme opposite of Whiteness, darker skin versus lighter skin).

wrote:

As a choker sucks, let’s sift through the muck and lift this dingy veil
same old tale

The choker...maybe another term for a "high collar", dont get what it would mean to be sucking though...
Lets move through the bad shit, like head on, don't be ashamed or overwhelmed. White people haven't been forced to think about race every day in terms of their identity, so of course it is a difficult process to move through, but it needs to be done so stop avoiding it or denying it or complaining it of it being too much to deal with, move through it and remove the superficial stigma held within that veils the truth. Same old tale, like it's simple? Or its something we ought to know by now, that to be superficial is bullshit, like "c'mon you know that".

wrote:

Get mixed in this crippling fixture
Try and approach the hidden mixtures
Get mixed in this crippling fixture
Try and approach the hidden picture it

Get involved in this conversation concerning the structural reality (fixture) of racism in our lives, don't avoid it. It's crippling for so many people, and crippling even us White People ultimately from taking part in our shared humanity.
Get to the bottom of the mystery (?), and picture it, imagine a world without racism.

wrote:

For a misplaced stash, let’s search through the trash and right this ignorant lurch
wicked urge

Comparing our anti-racist humanity to a misplaced stash, you have to look for it in the trash that is its reality and disgusting form in society, between people, and in us. It's both a an ignorant reaction and a terribly wicked urge when viewed as the right thing.

wrote:

Raise the gab above a whisper
Speak to salve a spoiling blister
Raise the gab above a whisper
Talk to cure a blister
Picture it

Raise your voice on the matter, stop whispering and gabbing about it insignificantly and passively. Use your voice and engage in dialogue to address and heal the blister that it is. And most of all, IMAGINE IT, PICTURE IT, your own fight against your internalized racism and a world rid of this disease.

And finally if it IS saying "Police stick em up" at the end, then it's pointing at the most brutal manifestation of what they're talking about: the plight of Black People due to all the functions and aspects of racism they mention in the song playing out in the position of the police officer, who has legal jurisdiction to murder anyone they deem a threat unless the most blatant of evidence can prove otherwise (though not always, as history has shown us). And not to say all people who are police act in this manner. I think its pointing at the institution of the police within our White supremacist society, which can express itself as the authoritative oppressor of Black People and People of Color, and the protector of anti-Blackness and White supremacy.

[roopn]

NICE!

[Vovenarg]

Wow! I couldn't make heads or tails of this but that makes so much more sense! Surprised Noah hasn't talked about its meaning when Daves songs have been getting buzzed about for their social consciousness or whatever ha

[Mulefa]

alexpiercey wrote:

Does anyone here "please stick 'em up" ("police, stick 'em up"maybe?) repeated over the last few beats? I keep singing it to myself at that part and I need to know if I'm going crazy.

You mean it's not "Taste the cum, taste the cum"?

[AudibleKayak]

Mulefa wrote:

alexpiercey wrote:

Does anyone here "please stick 'em up" ("police, stick 'em up"maybe?) repeated over the last few beats? I keep singing it to myself at that part and I need to know if I'm going crazy.

You mean it's not "Taste the cum, taste the cum"?

I hear it as "Police are comin' Police are comin'"

[rampface]

Mulefa wrote:

You mean it's not "Taste the cum, taste the cum"?

Damnit... I just heard this and now it will be there forever



Whoa, the Geo stuff in the background is amazing near the end

[paralleoneirdwell]

rampface wrote:

Damnit... I just heard this and now it will be there forever
Whoa, the Geo stuff in the background is amazing near the end

You can always switch to "Terence mckenna" which i'm not sure that is what the voice is actually saying, but unfocusing the ears a bit it feels good to have that there!

It is a similar effect to Dr. Robert from Revolver , when you listen to the vocals closely, you hear Robert, but unfocusing you may hear "Albert". You can almost hear them trying to say it but just enough that they are still completely saying Robert! it was fairly early on a big record label and they maybe would not be allowed to publish a song called "Dr. Albert" !

[Hellomark]

This song went from being really cool as a single, then overplayed and boring, and now it's one of my fav songs on the album. I think seeing them play it live helped a lot. The ending jam is so intense.

[roopn]

paralleoneirdwell wrote:

rampface wrote:

Damnit... I just heard this and now it will be there forever
Whoa, the Geo stuff in the background is amazing near the end

You can always switch to "Terence mckenna" which i'm not sure that is what the voice is actually saying, but unfocusing the ears a bit it feels good to have that there!

It is a similar effect to Dr. Robert from Revolver , when you listen to the vocals closely, you hear Robert, but unfocusing you may hear "Albert". You can almost hear them trying to say it but just enough that they are still completely saying Robert! it was fairly early on a big record label and they maybe would not be allowed to publish a song called "Dr. Albert" !

I don't understand what you're talking about at all

[Tropic]

Beatles

[roopn]

I got that much, but why the robert/Albert controversy?

[SpaceAnimal]

AudibleKayak wrote:

Mulefa wrote:

alexpiercey wrote:

Does anyone here "please stick 'em up" ("police, stick 'em up"maybe?) repeated over the last few beats? I keep singing it to myself at that part and I need to know if I'm going crazy.

You mean it's not "Taste the cum, taste the cum"?

I hear it as "Police are comin' Police are comin'"

Im pretty sure its "disconnect"

p.s. This thread is so damn hilarious but also very insightful with the lyrics explanation and things. classic anco fans.