Collected Animals

first time I've seen Clams in the top half of the board in ages and what a post.

actually made me cry. instant classic.

i was expecting to love it and boy do i love it

Hahahaha. Just listening to it now for the first time

Oh fuck

Unreal

i dont even understand how they are able to make shit like this

it's ethereal

i don't think i'll be able to listen to this song around people honestly it makes me sob

This is gonna sound stupid but i just dont give a shit. It doesn't feel like i listened to that song it feels like it passed through me

can anyone give me the chords?

best song on the album easy

maybe you've seen my posts, i'm an old head who is cynical as fuck and crusty for their heyday but...RnD is truly one of their best songs and certainly the jawdropper of the album. from the live experience to....this perfect messy diamond of song, thank you animal collective, its been years

those guitar chords on the slow part kill me right dead

I liked Sleep Cycle but never as much as people sometimes really idolize it. But this... I get it now. Josh is a complete genius.

is it rly that good will?
u got that split rip btw? can u send thru if so
dee double U i got it. pulleys kexp out of body style?

Super hyped to hear it. You guys are all great! :--)))))

I'm ready to hear it

Is this off base at all?

methinks that the rhythm guitar towards the end is playing some 7th chords on the top 3 strings. I can't make out the key
(yet) but I'm pretty sure I hear F/F# with some kinda high string 7ths.

Yes

Yea holy ffuck their prettiest song ever. Jaw dropping

There's at least 3 different moments in this song that are just so unbelievably beautiful, in the way that the best AC stuff is where it just totally overwhelms you:
1. The moment where Josh's vocals first come in.
2. The drums steadily getting more intense at around 2:30
3. And of course the big climactic high notes near the end, and basically everything that follows til it's over.

They couldn't have had a more perfect closing song for this album, like it enhanced everything that came before it.

is the very last arpeggios warped Flowers/Dancer or nah. If so why but also thats cool

Jay Z voice: "Sounds so soulful don't you agree?"

The fact that this exists makes no sense. It's beyond perfect.

That short part with the harmonies around 3 minutes in...... I weep every time it's absolutely sublime.

It's too fucking much

Teared up. One of their best songs ever.

I love this band so much

JOSH PUT THIS SONG ON A PLAYLIST FOR A RADIO SHOW LIKE A DECADE AGO, TOTALLY CONNECTED! PSYCH ROCK ANCESTORS!

This thread is hyping me up, cannot wait. Also never listened to the boots outside of down down down and defeat so allll new and fresh

this song is triumphant. i feel like theres a tension on the album that isnt released until this song starts, and then it absolutely soars. Washes of color and glorious vocals. The power of Noah’s drumming, too!! Goddamn.

That short part with the harmonies around 3 minutes in...... I weep every time it's absolutely sublime.

This is the moment that got me too, I really didnt see it coming and got choked up

The crescendo into guitar into that harmony is cosmic divinity that only deakin and animal collective could conjure

this song is triumphant. i feel like theres a tension on the album that isnt released until this song starts, and then it absolutely soars.

Well put, this is exactly how I felt. As soon as I heard the opening chords I was instantly like "ooooh ok I 'get' this album now".