Collected Animals

Definitely wouldn't be weird

Rosie Oh seems like it could have easily been on this record sans Josh's guitar.

i really love the internet it's great but it's SO NOISY there are too many thoughts on the internet and i only want to be able to hear my own

[runs into a forest]

lol

lmaoooo

In the scheme of things that correction might not seem like a lot, but for such a high profile review it's pretty glaring to come from a writer who seemed to have quite an emotional connection with AC.

HAHAHAHA

haha that's pretty good. "I heard this album before anyone else even knew what it was, hell I still don't even know what it was. Look at my cred. "

LOL

I think one of the later melodies of Golden Gal reminds me of some Shins song. Anyone else?

yes, that and lying in the grass.

golden gal as a port of morrow song, lying in the grass as a wincing the night away song. melodically, at a couple points. totally feel you.

Lol. Pitchfork really is something. They slam the album yet lurk this message board and band member's Instagrams like they're massive fans who would post here. Whatever. I suggest everyone take Avey's words to heart. We're the ones "standing in the light of the secret," as our Pitchfork boy puts it so well. And it feels good.

God damn thats funny. What a corndick

In the scheme of things that correction might not seem like a lot, but for such a high profile review it's pretty glaring to come from a writer who seemed to have quite an emotional connection with AC.

yea totally, especially cause it's pretty hard to confuse those 2 live eras. it's not like if you saw them in 07 and you weren't sure if they had already started playing the Merriweather jams. when they started playing Feels jams it was clearly a different thing than those acoustic shows Panda and Avey played

I guess when you're a music journo you probably listen to so much stuff that it's easy to get things mixed up, but still seems surprising that he'd make that mistake

The whole basis of his review was that he was an OG fan who heard Sung Tongs before it existed. That correction really invalidates the whole thing, lmao

I wonder what else Animal Collective have up their sleeve for the next couple months... Wasn't there rumors that they recorded a music video in South America, and the visuals Abby made still haven't been used in anything. And of course the last two songs that they mentioned in an interview.

Same guy also wrote a big piece on pitchfork about how Sung Tongs changed his life, so maybe it was just a typo & not a mistaken memory? Seems if that album has such an impact on you, you would remember an early live introduction.

Stereogum is after my heart comparing this album to Grant Morrison.

"This is the indie-rock equivalent of Grant Morrison’s fabled run on Doom Patrol: pleasure and weirdness and esoterica oozing from every pore and crevice, everyone’s palms stained with Crayola after marathon bouts of fingerpainting, every songwriting gear smooth, oiled, and full-on psychoactive."

http://www.stereogum.com/1859972/premat ... valuation/

See - this is a review I can get behind 200000%. He gives you the ups, the downs, the in-betweens; he describes in great detail exactly what he felt about the album without it feeling like a word-count-essay.
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Also, who else here is really hoping for a sped up, original tempo version of "Taste" for the live shows???? I feel like the original live version would really mash well with the PW songs.

Could see the looser hip-hop version returning alright, only faster.

Could see the looser hip-hop version returning alright, only faster.

Assuming you're talking about "Taste", I would absolutely love to hear an ultra high speed version of it... At the same time, I'm just wondering if this tour is going to mean crazy long in-between jams or more songs...

I'm just wondering if this tour is going to mean crazy long in-between jams or more songs...

Avey mentioned in an interview that the live shows will feature long extended jams like usual

ja nobody in pitchfork likes PW https://twitter.com/en_cohen/status/699672464792559617
but hey i dont care and avey so much love and great respond in instagram http://i.imgur.com/SXIJSqs.jpg

Totally want to hear Water Curses or From A Beach live
A funny little cop-out would be if they played the "bonefish" sample and went into Recycling instead of Peacebone.

ja nobody in pitchfork likes PW https://twitter.com/en_cohen/status/699672464792559617
but hey i dont care and avey so much love and great respond in instagram http://i.imgur.com/SXIJSqs.jpg

Wow. Just wow. I can't support that. Not anymore. They aren't even trying to be professionals at that point. They literally turned into TMZ for indie music there.

Ehh.. it's the guy's personal twitter - I wouldn't take too much notice..

Ehh.. it's the guy's personal twitter - I wouldn't take too much notice..

True enough.

Yall need to stop being concerned about what a website rates an album that you enjoy

ja nobody in pitchfork likes PW https://twitter.com/en_cohen/status/699672464792559617
but hey i dont care and avey so much love and great respond in instagram http://i.imgur.com/SXIJSqs.jpg

Lol Avey calling the reviewer out

who tf is ian cohen?

Not to dwell too much on this--though who am I kidding, this topic has lots more mileage left--I really hate that self-important, smug attitude towards art contained in that tweet. It's why I generally hate/ignore the vast majority of critique. We are the arbiters of what's considered good music and bad music, says each and every publication. As if each one is a collective hive mind of writers and editors all on the same wave-length, representing a golden, unified ideal. There is a site--the name fails me--that has multiple writers review the same thing. This, in theory, seemed like a much more intuitive and organic way of doing things but I'm pretty sure what I read there was smug wankery as well.

I guess it's just spawned a whole generation of people who live and die off of numbers and bite-sized vitriol: gravitating opinions around Rottentomatoes and throwing 7.4s at each other.

What a fucking smug bald joyless cunty streak of yellow piss.

seriously^

how can someone who contributes nothing of tangible value to society shit on great artists so mercilessly?

What a fucking dick. I don't really care what his opinion about the album is, you just don't talk that kind of trash about any artist. That's straight up a devaluation of their efforts.

ya know, going by this list http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/440-my-de ... ian-cohen/
if he liked painting with then i probably wouldnt

Oh God this thread is so writhing with anger

Eh, he's still just one guy though. It's kind of fun to just get that one "you suck" statement out there.

at the end of the day he's just ian fuckin' cohen

in this thread:

"who cares about stupid reviews? I don't! reviews are stupid, I just enjoy the album!...also here's my 10 page dissertation on the pitchfork review where I've meticulously counted every word and why pitchfork sucks and FUCK YOU REVIEWERS WHO I TOTALLY DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT"

hey y'all there's enough internet spawned negativity already
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't think that any of us are really taking it that much to heart though....right guys?

Like I said, I couldn't give a fuck about that review or any review. Just took some umbrage with that tweet.

still seems negative to get that "you suck" out there, cuz online what people see is what they get
doesn't always seem lighthearted with mean words bein tossed around
just my 2 cents

stoked as hell to hear this album though, really feelin the singles