Animal Collective - Honeycomb / Gotham

[Guest nene multiple assgasms]

http://www.dominorecordco.us/usa/singles/03-05-12/honeycomb-gotham

 

if you pre-order the 7" you get an immediate download of 320 kbps mp3s. avey tare sings on both tracks. they sound like... animal collective.

[Guest Benedict Cumberbatch]

any idea if these tracks are going to be on an album or is this just a 7". this is new method of releasing music for them right?

 

(also it's on spotify)

[sidewinder]

Thanks for the Spotify tip.

[Tauhid]

These tracks are terribad. What happened?

[sidewinder]

These tracks are terribad. What happened?

The first is bad, I like the second (Gotham).

[jules]

if these are on the new album I do not want to hear them yet. do we know if that's the case?

[Guest Benedict Cumberbatch]

heard them once and as usual with ac they made no impression. requires more listening.

 

I read somewhere that the fact that these came out indicates that a new album is almost done but it didnt indicate whether these would be on it. But I'd assume they would be.

[noise]

Gotham is good :)

[Guest nene multiple assgasms]

they're both terrigood.

[jules]

i like them both, but i dont want to listen anymore. i assume they are done recording and the record will be out this fall.

[Guest spike]

i doubt these are on the new LP, these are brand new never heard before, unlike usual where they tour for a bit on the LP material. They sound nothing like the stuff they played on their mini-tour last year. (in a bad way) can't wait for some of that old-new stuff.

[jules]

id be shocked if honeycomb was not on the album

[vertsk8er419]

they're both terrigood.

 

haven't listened but this is the best encapsulation i can imagine

 

edit: listened; yup. imaginative emphasis on the good

[jules]

doing production on an ac piece must be quite the job

[Guest Benedict Cumberbatch]

i doubt these are on the new LP, these are brand new never heard before, unlike usual where they tour for a bit on the LP material.

 

i think there are live recordings of these tracks. under different names as usual and very different. not verified with my ears though.

 

 

from the AC community:

 

So much more refined than their live iterations "Frights" and "Your Choice".

from http://animalcollective.org/community/discussion/1483/2-new-ac-songs.

[jules]

yea they toured the hell out of all this new material

[Guest zaphod]

how do these guys get more irritating with every song? i didn't mind sung tongs but now the instrumentation is annoying as fuck.

[kinski]

this 7" is kinda like if they figured out the sound but forgot to write a song to go with it. because it sounds great.

[Guest spike]

from my memory, i haven't heard any boots from last year, i don't remember them playing any of these songs from the couple of california shows i saw... let me check it out!

[Guest spike]

ok i checked it out, they played them... man some of the songs they played back then really stood out, these didn't ......

[KovalainenFanBoy]

I would buy this if I there were any record stores near me.

[Guest nene multiple assgasms]

how do these guys get more irritating with every song? i didn't mind sung tongs but now the instrumentation is annoying as fuck.

 

did you not hear any of their stuff from before sung tongs?

 

[Guest nene multiple assgasms]

[Guest zaphod]

how do these guys get more irritating with every song? i didn't mind sung tongs but now the instrumentation is annoying as fuck.

 

did you not hear any of their stuff from before sung tongs?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShdX3tkflFE

 

yeah. i know, it's not really a consistent opinion. i found that album really appealing for whatever reason but lately i think whatever tunefulness or melodic strengths their music possessed before is gone, leaving behind the arrangements and instrumentation, which is just annoying. or i just grew out of this band. it's odd though, i really enjoyed fall be kind. i'm just not sure how i could ever listen to something like this 7inch and not want to drive off a cliff.

[Tauhid]

how do these guys get more irritating with every song? i didn't mind sung tongs but now the instrumentation is annoying as fuck.

 

did you not hear any of their stuff from before sung tongs?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShdX3tkflFE

 

i'm just not sure how i could ever listen to something like this 7inch and not want to drive off a cliff.

 

This. I'm going to be bummed if the album is similar to these tracks. MPP had some of their best material.