new animal collective

I don't really like the new clear upfrontness in recording/production technique, i miss the blurry reverb and the multiple layering. "Fireworks" was great when I first heard it as "Allman Vibe" in a live recording, and still is. "Peacebone" has grown on me considerably, can't wait to hear the Pantha du Prince remix. The rest I'm not especially mad about. I need to listen to "Derek" a few more times, perhaps. Strongly dislike "Safer".

Certainly too soon to talk about the next album, but I recomend the tracks Little Girl, Am I Real, and Will to Joy from this 07 live show: http://www.archive.org/details/acollective2007-05-30

Pantha du Prince remix

!!

Fucking Animal Collective.

i know, right?

MTV!

jesus you guys the tunes are here more than ever before

i mean, i can understand not liking the production (though i like it) but these songs are far more hooky and tightly written than their other work

hooky. do not want.

what

THIS ISNT THE ILM I KNOW

Am loving The Reverend Green...great Avey vocal performance. Possibly the most Feelsy track on there.

It's not so much different to Feels overall imho..esp comparing the progression post-Sung Tongs to that.

yeah i can't believe after feels people were expecting them to go folksy/noisy again

their last several releases have shown a clear progression away from that

there's still a lot of neat old-AC ideas here; the tug between avey and the harmonies in the chorus of "reverend green," the slow fracture of the keyboard loops in "#1," the demented screaming in the middle eight of "peacebone"

they've just been attached to better songwriting

lol

"better", "songwriting"

hooky. do not want.

-- Drooone, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:27 (2 days ago) Link

THANK YOU!

This album is so boring. WTF happened.

"peacebone" and "winter wonder land" sounds very much like brian eno's "tiger mountain". (especially "back in judy's jungle").
and when will the trend of hearing "tusk" influence in every second indie album will stop? (not that it's not a good thing).
the african rhythms and the beach boys are still there though for a good use, you can't take that from them even if you think this record is boring.

far more hooky and tightly written than their other work

I disagree. I actually like this record more than I liked Feels, but that's largely down to tone. However, as far as hooks, "Leaf House" jumped all over me in a way these songs don't. "Slippi" from Here Comes the Indian did the same. It's completely not a pop song, but I'm not sure I'm ever going to forget it. Those are the kinds of songs that I can't believe nobody ever thought of before, they're just so immediate, and somehow totally unique. They're infectious, where the more recent stuff seems considered and moody. It's like they went from being oranges to being plums, and while I love plums, it kind of sucks to know they still have a lot of that bright, citric acid to burn, but are more interested in smoothing out the sour edge rather than exploiting it.

But then that's unhappy consumer talking. Music person says live and let live.

i think this record is animal collective's best.
am i the only one?

Right, I've been avoiding this thread and downloading the album since I last posted but "Peacebone" is rocking my world so much right now, I'm a do it.

Boneface.

I just haven't been compelled to listen to it more than once, and every other animal collective album is so beguilingly appealing in contrast.

i think it's their best album too.
there are maybe two clunkers... everything else is succinct beautiful pop. "derek" "fireworks" "chores" and esp. "peacebone" have been consistently killing me since the leak.

I haven't listened to it a great deal (I'm in I know, right?'s boat), but at this point, I think it's not their best.

i think that "side 1" is annoying, and "side" 2 has some of their best work ever, although none of the moments last the entirety of a song. i've only listened to it once, though. could be a grower.

my gf is working a music festival in france and her job is to take care of animal collective!

Although I couldn't give a shit about this new album... Lucky girl!

they aren't all sexy and stuff, rite?

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/3285/glurmev5.png

If that isn't sexy, I don't wanna know sexy.

i scrolled two inches into the first head and thought you were posting a gunshot victim or something

I dont wanna kno sexy.

"and every other animal collective album is so beguilingly appealing in contrast"
quite the opposite for me!

Poortheatre if you dont mind my asking, which festival is she working for? It may be one i'll be attending :D

i can't remember the name. i guess it's in normandy?

ah-hah: Les Trois Elephants!

I was just listening to Peacebone, there's not much going on there I don't think.

I was just listening to Peacebone, there's not much going on there I don't think.

thre are like 78 different synths on that song!

in a twisted way,this song reminds me of neutral milk hotel and the elephant 6 movement.and brian eno of course.

xp: Right. but I find it kind of stale. Also the "da da's".

I do like some of the other songs though!!

thre are like 78 different synths on that song!

screw this

lol

pantha du prince mix can be hear in part here
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/278624-02.htm
even though it's listed as the album version
bd mix is wacky.

:(

this continues to not be very good.. (except for "#1" the drums in "Derek")

Agreed. They have grown progressively more boring with every release.

I believe the complete opposite. They've grown progressively more engaging with every release.

"fireworks" is amazing!

NO

Fireworks, Peacebone and For Reverend Green are superb but a lot of the tracks just wash into the background for me. It's their most solid and typically AC album and in a way that detracts from the whole mentalism of the band.

there's something flat, manic, relentless, one-dimensional, and physical about this album. But I'm starting to dig it. The gross out pix full of jam are totally appropriate. I hear elements of Danse Manatee.

it's a great album.
try to listen to it as if it's the first animal collective record you ever heard , and dont compare it with the previous ones.

cukoo cukoo is also great.
the only track i tend to skip is the 3rd.

vocals on this thing are mixed way too loud for my ears...

Avey's yelping is one of my least favorite of their stylistic tics.

I still dont know what I feel about being able to understand their lyrics.

If I love Sung Tongs and that Indian one, hate Feels and People, how does the new one slot in?