Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

wat is it

There's already a threddd.

well, sorry an old thread where the new album has been discussed.

new animal collective

i love the cover art

It's awful.

Gman, are you related to eman?

ahh sorry didn't see that....i thought the whole thing was about sung tongs

the cover? i like it..... its kind of funny....i think it fits the band

naw sorry im not

gm0n

"A sacred night where we'll watch the fireworks/ The frightened babies poo/ They've got two flashing eyes and they're colored why/ They make me feel that I'm only all I see sometimes"

these lyrics are fucking horrible

How do you know these are the lyrics? Where are they printed?

But, dued, they remind us of our childhood and reflect the innocence of the children.

Another option:

And I can't lift you up, my mind is tired
It's family beaches I desire
To say good night, we'll watch the fireworks
That frighten babies, boo
They've got two flashing eyes, they're colorblind
They make me feel that I'm only all I see sometimes

criticising a band for something that has no significance other than as a cliché in what's written about them isn't really playing fair.

xpost

I'm so sorry.

Also poo>>>boo.

"The sixth album by this neocommunalist, neopsychedelic quartet improves on 2005's Feels, flashing more shards of tune to lure the coeds with the Coleman PerfectFlow InstaStart Lanterns over to their adamantly unkempt campfire. The welcoming “Peacebone,” the energetic “Chores” and the elated “Cuckoo Cuckoo” might get a young leisure consumer to risk conversion at one of the grotty neoprimitivist orgies their shows are bruited to be. Then again, the ninety seconds of weirded-up solo organ ostinato that then underlies or swallows three minutes of incomprehensible singing on “Winter Wonder Land” might inspire the same normal to stay home and watch Seinfeld reruns. It depends on how he or she felt about the six-minute centerpiece, “For Reverend Green,” where the listener strains to hear frontman Avey Tare rave, “I think it's all right to feel human now.” Great, really. But didn't we know that already?"

ROBERT CHRISTGAU

"For Reverend Green" is so good. As has been noted many times.

it's better than Feels.

it's better than anything by them so far

Well, Mark's review has inspired me to give this another listen. I have to say though, after the first 3 listens I was pretty certain it's my least favorite Animal Collective release, ever. It emphasizes aspects of their sound that I don't like very much.

I've gone back to it after a short break and some of the sections have sunk in. Chores and Unsolved Mysteries sound like classics to me now whereas I wasn't too sure about them before.

i just picked this up today. im liking it a lot. The big standouts for me right now after 1 listen is "For Reverend Green" and "Chores".

Both terrific songs.

cover looks 100X more awesome irl. packaging is great too.

"derek" is a standout as well.

maybe i just didn't pay as much attention to it as i do now but...did Noah always sing like Brian Wilson on Animal Collective albums? or did this just happen since Person Pitch?

maybe I just never listened for it before.

regardless. this is a great release. definately their most 'accessable' to date

yah and i still stand beside the cover art and packaging....its has a great look and feel...espessially for the nostalgic themes of the album

yah "derek" is probably my favorite album closer of 2007 so far

"Winter Wonder Land" is brilliant too

http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/animal_collective/strawberry_jam/

What are we looking at?

So, it's a couple of decent songs, a bit of filler. Never really understood the hype for these guys; when I want weird I usually go weirder, when I want pop I usually go poppier.

^This is about right. Especially re Strawberry Jam.

when I want indie rock...I will listen to this.

Do you guys get "Here Comes The Indian" mixed with the best qualities of "Feels" off of this album?

I'm really enjoying it - from the perspective that it's a step forward from Feels, which left me a bit flat, and it's also synthesizing ideas from their more experimental material.

Sorry what? That would be a good album.

the album feels too lean to me. Too dense. I wish they would've stretched out bits, like the ending of Chores. Nice trance quality to the end of #1. Lot of nice sounds on this

Cuckoo's piano loop is pleasant. Nice, thick, crunching guitars and rolling drums on this. The various swooping and swirling sounds out of nowhere sort of remind me of the disparate excesses of sound you'd hear on an Olivia Tremor Control or related record. But this works better. Also remindin' me of later period xiu xiu's clatterin' blasts of sound, but more structurally sound and flush.

I really like this album a lot.

WAIT SCRATCH THAT I FREAKING ADORE THIS ALBUM A LOT.

O! I guess the poo lyrics are official.
I like these lyrics from rev green

A running child's bloody with burning knees
A careless child's money flew in the trees
A camping child's happy with winter's freeze
A lucky child don't know how lucky she is

"when I want indie rock...I will listen to this."

Ok. Maybe I can blame being just shy of 30, but when I was in high school I listened to indie rock all the time. Now I rarely think "I'd love something indie!" I want other qualities out of it, because I've just heard so goddamned much indie rock that I have no real need for any new indie rock.

About everything I wanted from Animal Collective, I got from Rac-oo-oon (or however many ooo they have)—the swirling percussion, the weird phasing and delay, the psych-tribal other-worldliness. It's not that I don't like AC, it's just that, especially by this album, I have a hard time ever thinking of when I NEED to listen to them. They mostly just sound like aftershocks of Elephant 6 to me, which is OK (I'd put SJ at a B/B-), just not the jizz-worthy explosion.

Oh, and stuff I don't NEED to hear = stuff I don't buy.

I am going to see them in about half an hour. Scott Colburn's new band Wizard Prison is opening. yay!

I've been playing "Feels" and "Strawberry Jam" all week/weekend. Such spastically happy fun psychedelicpopcrazy. I dont usually get into stuff like this, but these guys are just great.

Trayce, you're a regular Animal Collective cheerleader.

Heh sorry. I get like this when I find new things I like a lot.

their best by a huge margin.

HUEGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

still AMAZING

He really knows how to make a shitty sentence sound poignant.

webster hall blows
otm

true!
still not sure if i'm going to go tonight or not.

hopefully they will have worked out the sound issues, but it is hard to imagine having a really fun time at this place. though i did when i saw the streets, fwiw.

i do have a couple of spliffs rolled up just in case tho! fuck it. i'm gonna go

that's the spirit! i am now determined to have fun!

The boss is gone for the rest of the day! no excuse not to leave here at a reasonable hour and go to the show

o, they were just on Sound Check but I missed it.

letter from an angry mom sent to sean agnew, the founder of r5 productions in philadelphia, regarding saturday's animal collective show:

"You should be brought up on charges for what went down Saturday night, is this an underground cult you are running with Animal Collective?

My daughter and her friends were terrified, no security, no police, not even a show, music playing backwards and men trying to lure them away, only one door to exit out and no cab would come pick them up
because the location they gave did not exist, no one ever heard of the Polaris club or the address.

What kind of scheme are you running.....

I will find someone to listen and have your organization investigated, you endangered several young adults on Saturday night.

I hope your child never goes thru what hell you put ours thru,
I hope you rot in hell, or is that were your from!"

holy shit

I hope you rot in hell, or is that were your from!

instant classic.

Okay, now I'm really excited about going to see them in Dublin!

watch out for the music, though. they play it BACKWARDS.

haha

So... Avey support then?

WAHT

lol @ that letter

so pfork picked up the story about the letter and printed the dudes response, it's roffle-worthy
Agnew's response to the mother informed her that there were 12 R5 staff members, one police officer, and two "uniformed and armed licensed state security officers" stationed at the venue (indie kids can sure get rowdy!), which happens to have three exits, and had plenty of cabs out front.

He ended his e-mail with "We are not a cult and you have horrible grammar. Good luck on your journey with your child."

haha!

did you go last night mizzell?

yes! it was way improved. i stayed in the balcony and really dug the new songs. what about you?

yeah, it was good. as far as webster hall goes i thought the sound was decent. oh and i almost knocked Björk down coming out of the restroom

whoa, that's fun was she wearing this?
http://bigsecretpizzaparty.typepad.com/shhhh/images/2007/04/25/bjork.jpg
prolly hard to avoid running into her.

Avey on the AC message board about the first night at Webster Hall:

"i think i owe eveyone who was at the first nyc show an apology. .....According to a friend sasha frere jones thinks we are dicks for not playing on and will not write a planned feature he had for us in the new yorker..."

awww, s/fj didn't get to see the show he wanted. poor s/fj. poor poor s/fj.

what happened? the set was cut short?

well they played for over an hour. they stopped in the middle of fireworks.

stopped the song not the set. they played a couple more, then stopped, no encore, despite the house lights and music not coming up and people cheering for a bit.

oic. I read that bit upthread but I didn't realize that was about the first new york show.

so is this the first time they've toured their current record instead of working out new stuff?

They did stuff from Grass at oxygen last summer.

Sorry that was meant to say, they did stuff from Feels at Oxegen last summer

yeah, it has been a slow steady change. They played Kids on Holiday and We Tigers (and Winter's Love, omnce) during the Feels tours and then a handful of Feels songs during Jam tours. but they have played all but 3 songs from SJ on this tour. But they are still playing about 12 new songs now, so they are def working out new stuff.

apparently the 2nd show was great. i couldn't make monday but i'm kinda bummed that this one especially 'bad' show was the first time i was seeing one of my favourite groups. the rest of the show really was pretty good, but the atmosphere after the fireworks debacle just sorta dipped and never really recovered.

Animal Collective doing '#1' on Conan

Whoa.

weird choose of song

i'm all about playing weird shit on national tv or whatever, but i wish they'd just ran through 'peacebone' and gotten the fuck out.

it's really hard to be ominous (or whatever they were going for) on conan w/o being like, sun0)) and wearing hooded robes and shit.

Ominous? Hahahah! What?

Definitely not a conventional choice of song for a late night talk show, but then again, if I were hearing Animal Collective for the first time with that appearance, I think my interest would be piqued a bit, more so than if they had played "Peacebone" or the like.

lol
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b379/ajdphotobucket/acconanwb7.jpg

I love how late night hosts are holding up vinyl instead of CDs lately.

WHAT KIND OF BACKWARDS SPEAKING CULT ARE YOU RUNNING HERE??????????

lol @ that pic obv.

due to the size of a vinyl vs. a cd it makes sense for bands to give 'em vinyl.

Its like cool or whatever.

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How do you do that?

that clip was amaze

definitely topped the previous most o_0 talkshow performance I'd seen (Pavement doing Stop Breathing on Leno)

bbc session up at http://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/
sweet new version of doggy/heylight

Finally starting to not resent this album.

why do you resent it?

my favorite of theirs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjcMFtgsq5M