animal collective - centipede hz

http://pitchfork.com/news/46495-animal-collective-announce-new-album/

hey markers

Can't wait for the animated gif album cover.

Pitchfork: "The video also offers a list of words and phrases that may or may not make up the tracklist on the album."

Stereogum: "The video contains a dozen phrases that … may be song titles?"

this is all really fascinatinghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sVKDhQNnTDk/SWQk0pWMOGI/AAAAAAAABiw/u3364BvHzCo/s400/WayneAndGarth.jpg

can't wait for them to be on the cover of Spin this year.

01 Moonjock
02 Today's Supernatural
03 Rosie Oh
04 Applesauce
05 Wide Eyed
06 Father Time
07 New Town Burnout
08 Monkey Riches
09 Mercury Man
10 Pulleys
11 Amanita

those 2 new songs are not there

YAY for anyone who missed Dario G

everybody hz

ilx pre-covers?

YES.

Fuck it, I will start a thread.

ILX pre-covers Animal Collective's "Centipede Hz"

the actual tracklist just hit the web:

01 akikan
02 sleeping with hinako
03 lucky star
04 midori days
05 samurai pizza cats
06 qwaser of stigmata
07 unko-san
08 kiss x sis
09 puni puni poemy
10 excel saga
11 ebichu the housekeeping hamster

more like centipede hzzzzzzzzzz ....

i pede, it hz

centipede humanz

http://myanimalhome.net/centipede_hz0.jpg

That's fucking horrible.

Just like everything else about them.

HIYOOOOOOO!!!!

please centipede, dont hz 'em

bet it sounds like dario g with crap singing

or

the beach boys

that really is phenomenally ugly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6cWumQwCqA&feature=youtu.be

i dig.

mm doesn't seem to be working

http://www.youtube.com/embed/f6cWumQwCqA

sounds good to me

sounds http://www.stonewylde.com/smilies/puke.gif to me

Today's Supernatural is great. I hope the rest of the album has this sort of energy. They sort of lost it in between Sung Tongs and Feels.

He sounds a little like Zinc Alloy era Bolan in parts. I love it!

sounds good, BUT for a band that more or less reinvent themselves each record - it sounds very familiar. somewhere between Feels and Spirit Theyve Gone

after being struck by it on my first few listens i'm not so sure now, as a song i like what it's doing but i don't know that the sonic palette they're using is really working for me. a bit of an ugly mush, which is something they've made work before but here the mush doesn't really seem to be attaining any consistency. maybe an album's worth of said ugly mush will indoctrinate me.

as a pre-album sigle - it's probably their worst since 2004

The 'ugly mush' factor is what's been the problem for their last two albums, but strangely not things like the Fall Be Kind EP which is pretty good, and the last Panda Bear which was acers.

Really like Today's Superman on first listen though - not actually too mushy sounding, and I like the fact they seem to be revisiting earlier styles (I hear elements of Sung Tongs in the drumming and also long-ago co-conspirators Black Dice's 'Repo' album in there). Sounds like they're having fun again after having nearly lost themselves in granular fuzz on MPP

I did not like that

I'm a fan of almost everything they've done up to this point but I dunno, something is off there

i don't know that the sonic palette they're using is really working for me. a bit of an ugly mush

seems otm. maybe it will grow on me, I hated Strawberry Jam at first but kinda came around.

those heavy guitar crashes on the stop-start part, ugh

cmon let let let let let let let go

bionic hee haw

I seriously can't have enough of this song. Catchiest song I've heard from them since Purple Bottle.

album's gonna be streaming on http://radio.myanimalhome.net/ soon. (currently we have a mix by geologist.)

(apryl fool playing at the moment, word.)

just tuned in.. how much did i miss?

this is the fourth song now.

who's singing this song... deakin?

this deakin song is nice (xp!). hoping that lo-ish-fi stream is a particularly bad format for this album, tho, cuz i'm continuing to dig the songs qua songs but finding it all a bit muddily busy.

ya that was good. tho i am a major stan, i admit. the sonics became more appealing, though i'll wait until i have the proper version before listening again.

the website now has all the tracks available to stream, btw.

where do you see that/how can i get to it? i've been failing at this thing all evening.

nm found it

Can't get past the "ugly mush" production. Sounds terrible.

Not enough Noah.

listened to this again today. idgaf what anyone says, i think it's a really enjoyable listen.

It obviously rules, it was just releases during a low point in their hype cycle so people had to pretend to dislike it.

no, a lot of genuine fans were disappointed by this record, nothing to do with hype cycle. probably would've been cool to start hating by strawberry jam anyway

I <3 centipede hz a great deal. The criticisms mostly didnt make sense to me bc i still think its at least as "immediately enjoyable" as MPP and has more replay value. I understand ppl have different experiences though... for me this is an important album.

i was mad hyped for it and even though i had misgivings on my first listen i thought i'd get over them with repeated listens, but nop, they came to dominate my feelings about it. but that's fine, it happens, i'll eagerly anticipate their next album anyway.

Their live show with this album is good... They incorporate video montage in a way that makes sense for the vibe if the album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYdhNkwu2JU

Hah

hahah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ilYn_UqCQ

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpZlEb9uva0&feature=kp

there are just as many transcendent moments here as there were on merriweather. america just didn't want to spend time with another animal collective record and, i mean, i get it. i don't blame america or its critical establishment.

http://www.nraila.org/media/2433425/CWCmh609.jpg

lol

you should have photoshopped it so it said NRA-ILM Executive director

too many cooks in the kitchen

Kinda cool that noted ilm poster Bee OK got their user name on this album at the end of the Deakin song.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, September 7, 2012 8:49 AM (1 year ago)

lol, never seen this before.

user name comes from a Boo Radleys song.

this was the first animal collective album i heard. i always wrote them off as a twee brooklyn deep v-neck/curly mustache band, but this album got me into them. i was actually just listening to this again a couple of days ago.

there are just as many transcendent moments here as there were on merriweather. america just didn't want to spend time with another animal collective record and, i mean, i get it. i don't blame america or its critical establishment.

― Treeship,

I think I"m inclined to agree with this, it seemed like people weren't as ready to receive this as MPP. Their new live album caused me to rethink the kind of band they've been becoming. I guess time will tell, but I wouldn't be surprised if centipede hz ends up being one of the high points of their collective powers.

Hate this band and especially Merriweather Post Pavilion with cringing disgust. But I remember hearing Centipede HZ when I was working in a record store and it sounded great after a couple pot brownies. I mean, I went home and listened to it on Spotify and everything. I considered buying it, even.

I think the Treeship comment is totally otm. In fact, MPP is one of those records that people might shy away from because of how big it was when it came out. It was definitely part of some kind of zeitgeist, and when that moment was over, it was very much a "morning after" kind of thing. Centipede Hz (which I'd say is more interesting, song-wise, production-wise) was more than unwelcome, it was like being reminded of a particularly embarrassing one night stand.

i don't think it makes much sense to claim this was just a matter of timing or fatigue. centipede is a sonically challenging record even if you like it (i do) and much less accessible than mpp.

Y'see, the thing about Animal Collective is that I don't think they were much cop to begin with.

well they're no oasis

I followed them up through Sung Tones, really fun inventive stuff. Then they sounded like the Arcade Fire for a couple albums and I wrote them off. When MPP came around I couldn't stand it, it was like my ears has moved on to other realms. Person Pitch is GREAT, however, probably my favorite thing of theirs.

ears has = ears had

as a diehard AC fan (and yeah, not 'AnCo' - that stupid abbreviation that hipster runoff started as a joke and fans actually started using seriously) ... centipede hz sounded overcooked and confused for a long time after it came out. for the first time in *12 years*, the AC made a record that didn't make a near complete break with the past, and it sounded like they were treading water and coming off like a parody of themselves, especially lyrically. but as time goes on, i like it more and more. it was a victim of impossible expectations after MPP, and yeah the live album made me appreciate its songs and all of the textures that took forever to untangle. as they release more albums, i think CHZ will hold up really hell within the context of their body of work.

monkey riches is a fun song. that's all i remember about this album.

this album rules, sorry it took ~4 years for me to appreciate all of it. 'moon jock' is absolutely one of the best things they've ever done... explosive, angry, panicked, sad... a perfect intro to an 'alien band' album, 'moonjock' is insane from the start and manages to build gradually into that thrilling 'then we run out again run out gain' ending.

http://www.arranalexander.co.uk/ekmps/shops/macduffdave/images/the-emperor-s-new-clothes-ladybird-book-favourite-tales-gloss-hardback-1999-738-p.jpg

Come on le le le le le le let's go

Scrolling down, saw that picture, thought '10 to 1 it's from Turrican', and there ya go!

Yeah, Moonjock is absolutely fantastic. Listening to it now, one of the details that make the song, and by extension the album, is the little drum fill in the massive post chorus.

My favorite album of 2012, but I haven't heard it that much since. Haven't heard a lot of music from 2012, though. Skipping through it, and it's still fantastic.

Yeah, did a complete relisten, this album rules! I found it weird how so few people talked about the rhythms on this album, when really most of the noises are part of this completely weird polyrhythmic cacophony. So many tuplets, triplets, counter-melodies weaving in and out of the mix. A lot of it has an implied dancehall/baile funk lilt, but in the harshest digitized version possible.

Meeting of the Waters is good! Always preferred Anco at their least hyperactive.

Yeah, I kind of love it. Man of Oil the best song they've done in a very long time, and it anchors the abstraction of the rest perfectly.

I like it a lot, they haven't done something this wide-open and textural since Campfire Songs/HCTI. Centipede was much more dense than this - I like how it breathes.

I originally misread the title as "Meeting of the Waiters" which I still laugh at

🎶 from sugar teas to honey best / bulimic vegetarian wins weight contest 🎶

This album has all the appeal of a children's science fair project except made by adults and with an expectation that you'll pay for it

Yeah. It's wonderful :)

speaking as someone who loves a lot of their work, I think this is their worst/most unlistenable record (other than Animal Crack Box, dear god that's even worse)

whoa come on don’t be mean to the crack box

you misspelled 'band'

Children's science fair projects are kind of endearing, no? Or have I misunderstood this analogy?

well they're not something you want to spend a lot of time with

this album has grown on me though, "Moonjock" is one of their best. "Mercury Man" is overlooked

If you can’t spare some time for “Wide Eyed” at least then idk

these live videos are awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa-4FgWUp44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0h_4cSuzek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VesIkXdWrsw

wonder if this album is gonna get critically evaluated at any point. seems like it came at a time where the new fans wanted another MPP-like pop album and the old fans were getting kinda sick of them. but despite being kind of a headache its probably my favorite from them right now. I think its one of the most solid albums they've done track-for-track and I keep hearing new things every time I listen to it. the live renditions of these tracks are amazing too. I'm pretty bowled over by Aveys ability to sing like that live