Collected Animals

On Delay gives me the feeels. Like an old classic heartlful Animal collective song

Also - I was just reading The Quietus' review and I almost didn't make it past the second paragraph.

"...unique highs would emerge like fleeting firebirds from the strange tundra laid out by their loops and lo-fi acoustics..."

I give fewer than 0 shits about his opinion of the record, but why do reviewers of all types feel the need to write such insanely flowery analogies that serve almost no purpose in the description of anything relating to the thing they're reviewing? What is this trend?!

It's just a descriptive way of writing that is apropos of speaking about music and other such arts. It isn't a particularly brilliant or insightful line but I'd rather those analogies than something bland and perfunctory.

Writers have to use flowery language because it's hard to accurately convey the experience of listening to music just through words. It's like dancing about architecture etc

I mean, I use "flowery analogies" when making music

everybody's got a different musical language

Dalehp wrote:

http://thequietus.com/articles/19709-th ... ith-review

Hahaha fuuuuuuuuck
That dude is NOT happy

He uses "faux–naïf" and "EDM belches" twice each to describe two different songs.
This guy sounds like Mike Powell's less popular more socially inept cousin who feels slighted by the band for not making yet another Feels or Sung Tongs. What a clown

Writers have to use flowery language because it's hard to accurately convey the experience of listening to music just through words. It's like dancing about architecture etc

Was going to mention that too. You'd sound ridiculous just telling it like it happened

demonclusters wrote:

Dalehp wrote:

http://thequietus.com/articles/19709-th ... ith-review

Hahaha fuuuuuuuuck
That dude is NOT happy

He uses "faux–naïf" and "EDM belches" twice each to describe two different songs.
This guy sounds like Mike Powell's less popular more socially inept cousin who feels slighted by the band for not making yet another Feels or Sung Tongs. What a clown

He used those more than twice and it was on purpose

Joe Biden review will be up in a couple hours. will be fun to watch this board i think it'll be a good review though. 7 or more

i also thought p4k would give this a 9.0 tho so kill me

Joe Biden really loved "Golden Gal" so I'm thinking he'll do a pretty favorable review. Yeah probably at the very least a strong 7 to a strong 8, or maybe even light 9 from him

marginwalker wrote:

demonclusters wrote:

Dalehp wrote:

http://thequietus.com/articles/19709-th ... ith-review

Hahaha fuuuuuuuuck
That dude is NOT happy

He uses "faux–naïf" and "EDM belches" twice each to describe two different songs.
This guy sounds like Mike Powell's less popular more socially inept cousin who feels slighted by the band for not making yet another Feels or Sung Tongs. What a clown

He used those more than twice and it was on purpose

Oh wow, didn't even notice haha. He's even more of a clown now

Guys, if you haven't listened to the 24 bit version.

WOW.

So many great, beautiful layers, so clear. This album was mixed pretty well - or at least it was mixed to be listened to at 24 bit/88.whatever kHz. Love it. Thanks Animal Collective and Domino!

On Delay gives me the feeels. Like an old classic heartlful Animal collective song

yeah mannnnn. i like being a joby but wish i could change my username to it happened twice.

100% on same level as fireworks and banshee beat for me. which is nice cuz i have really specific times in my life that I associate with those songs that I'm like not at anymore, so whenever I listen to them now, I still love them, but they kinda try bringing me back to that spot. Glad to have such a beautiful piece of heartfelt throbby goodness to make some new feels to.

Floridada - Avey
Hocus Pocus - Pandy
Vertical - Avey
Lying in the Grass - Pandy
The Burglars - Avey
Natural Selection - Pandy
Bagels in Kiev - Avey
On Delay - Avey
Spilling Guts - Pandy
Summing the Wretch - Pandy
Golden Gal - Avey
Recycling - Pandy

Much appreciated! But where to put the Geo cover....??

I used these as the covers:

Floridada - Avey
Hocus Pocus - Pandy
Vertical - Geo
Lying in the Grass - Pandy
The Burglars - Avey
Natural Selection - Geo
Bagels in Kiev - Avey
On Delay - Geo
Spilling Guts - Pandy
Summing the Wretch - Pandy
Golden Gal - Avey
Recycling - Geo

geodude is the subtle star

Also - I was just reading The Quietus' review and I almost didn't make it past the second paragraph.

"...unique highs would emerge like fleeting firebirds from the strange tundra laid out by their loops and lo-fi acoustics..."

I give fewer than 0 shits about his opinion of the record, but why do reviewers of all types feel the need to write such insanely flowery analogies that serve almost no purpose in the description of anything relating to the thing they're reviewing? What is this trend?!

At least he didn't compare their old music to kimchi or kombucha

bcuz everyone wants to kno what Joe Biden thinks

lol fuck him

so this is sorta live discussion, but which of these songs do you think is most likely to start off a live set? I'm thinking On Delay

bcuz everyone wants to kno what Joe Biden thinks

Spoiler: show

light to decent 5

Eh, I can't be mad. He at least explained why he didn't like the album... unlike Pitchfork.
The part where he took the piss out of the hocketing made me cringe hard though.

Got these in the mail and my download the same morning

so this is sorta live discussion, but which of these songs do you think is most likely to start off a live set? I'm thinking On Delay

Hocus Pocus seems like it would be a good show-starter

Got these in the mail and my download the same morning

YES SR80!!! I got doze. Not the e's tho. And my box is the old design - new design is fresh! Check out the 24 bit with these.

was this posted? http://www.jambase.com/article/talking- ... album-more

some cool info..
the idea of more high quality live shows being released excites me maybe as much as new album

so this is sorta live discussion, but which of these songs do you think is most likely to start off a live set? I'm thinking On Delay

ooh yeah I could easily see that. Someone mentioned Hocus Pocus as a potential opener, think I could see that too

I think the most frustrating part about some reviews and even fan comments are the "what ever happened to the st/feel/sj magic?" People are concerned about feeling a certain magic or mystery to listen to an AC record, and I get that. I personally feel like CHz (which I liked, but right now like PW more) was more of a greatest hits type of sound, but for me PW does hit on a personal level. For me it's about embracing the maddness (the information overload, social media, etc.) while still finding that balance to be lost in thought. It's a positive, uplifting feel to me - more "magic" from them that I haven't felt since maybe oddsac or fbk. It kind of makes me said a lot of people aren't connecting to it.

Spoiler: show

deadwall wrote:

Got these in the mail and my download the same morning

YES SR80!!! I got doze. Not the e's tho. And my box is the old design - new design is fresh! Check out the 24 bit with these.

I've got a pair of SR80s too!! The album sounds amazing through them. Definitely gonna try listening to the 24 bit version cranked sometime

also I love the mixing on this album

Album's synth are bubbling me balls to the walls while the crispies are floating around above......,.shit sounds good on em!! feel like I'm listening to demo headphones but I'm in mah bed

To death!

remy wrote:

Also - I was just reading The Quietus' review and I almost didn't make it past the second paragraph.

"...unique highs would emerge like fleeting firebirds from the strange tundra laid out by their loops and lo-fi acoustics..."

I give fewer than 0 shits about his opinion of the record, but why do reviewers of all types feel the need to write such insanely flowery analogies that serve almost no purpose in the description of anything relating to the thing they're reviewing? What is this trend?!

It's just a descriptive way of writing that is apropos of speaking about music and other such arts. It isn't a particularly brilliant or insightful line but I'd rather those analogies than something bland and perfunctory.

Obviously analogies are a powerful tool in writing. But much like your sort-of-wrong use of apropos, this style of writing sounds like he was just sitting with a thesaurus and a "How to Sound Poetic" book and picking out base descriptive phrases so he could charge the blog for 500 words instead of 350. It just kind of grosses me out. I understand where you guys are coming from, totally, and I don't mean to poke fun - I just think it's poor writing.

It seems sort of like putting a hat on a boner and pointing at it.
There's my analogy.

Apologies for a un-AC related rant.

Haha, fair enough

http://www.allmusic.com/album/painting- ... 0002901551

Allmusic gave it four stars (the same rating they gave virtually every album outside of MPP and CHZ (that was only three and a half)).

cOoL

was this posted? http://www.jambase.com/article/talking- ... album-more

some cool info..

Spoiler: show

JamBase: Would you ever do anything like reel big phish does where the soundboard is for sale online the day after the show?

AT: We want to get to a point with our website where we’re putting out more shows for free and not having to rely on releasing shows as mastered records. It’s cool to release nice quality vinyl-type versions of live shows, but yeah, we’d like to have our own database where fans can add their shows to our recordings and it becomes a cohesive library.

the idea of more high quality live shows being released excites me maybe as much as new album

oh em gee that would be so sweet. or maybe the band could just have a link that sends people to the all live boots thread we have and they could contribute

would be sweet if an official database is set up

Favourite moment:

who needs slicker
tools to build
a portrait
out of place
mmmmmMMMMMmmmmm

Man, I love Panda and his vocals.

Some of these (especially On Delay) have so much going on that they could easily occupy like 8+ minutes and be a Feels/SJ-style jam, I think it's really cool that they were compacted into bite-size pieces. It's something totally new from the band

Also makes me wonder what it would be like to hear this album at 1/2 speed

Tried getting a listen in at lunchtime.
Jesus shit Christ how fuckin' big is a goddamn 16-bit wav album? I thought it'd be a cut above mp3, but over 300mb?!

Is this shit borderline lossless. Doesn't help work internet is slow slow slow
my excitement soured into pure bitterness and I don't care who gets hurt

Tropic of Cans wrote:

marginwalker wrote:

demonclusters wrote:

Dalehp wrote:

http://thequietus.com/articles/19709-th ... ith-review

Hahaha fuuuuuuuuck
That dude is NOT happy

He uses "faux–naïf" and "EDM belches" twice each to describe two different songs.
This guy sounds like Mike Powell's less popular more socially inept cousin who feels slighted by the band for not making yet another Feels or Sung Tongs. What a clown

He used those more than twice and it was on purpose

Oh wow, didn't even notice haha. He's even more of a clown now

i think he was driving at the sameness

i think he was driving at the sameness

Tried getting a listen in at lunchtime.
Jesus shit Christ how fuckin' big is a goddamn 16-bit wav album? I thought it'd be a cut above mp3, but over 300mb?!

Is this shit borderline lossless. Doesn't help work internet is slow slow slow
my excitement soured into pure bitterness and I don't care who gets hurt

16 bit wav is lossless. 300mb is kind of small actually.

lol that quietus review

Learned my lesson, argh
Thanks

My shipment notification hasn't updated since my package went in the wrong direction from me (Michigan to New Jersey; I'm in Texas) three days ago. Should I start worrying?