Animal Collective's follow-up to 2012's Centipede Hz, Painting With features 3 different album covers and was first premiered in a Baltimore airport. After a couple of bathroom recordings of the songs vertical and the burglars leaked anco fans were sufficiently hyped. Painting With seems to be an advancement of the pop-persuasion of animal collective's previous record Merriweather Post Pavillon. The lead single Floirdada was released November 30th, its super dope. Pre-orders come with a bonus 7".
HIGH hopes for this! Loved Centipede Hz!! Hope this is on the level that was!
Sorry bro but CHz was a hot mess and easily their worst release but still listenable. Hope the new album sounds nothing like Hz thou.
just let him have it man, haha
How can CHz be their worst release when Danse Manatee exists?
Ok Pitchfork drone
Danse isn’t great but I fond myself liking it more with every listen. It feels inspired and whimsical even if its a bit thin and frail.
>Implying that Hollinndagain or Danse Manatee are better albums
>can’t even handle entry-level noise/freak folk music.
shiggy diggy
Hollinndagain is a seriously excellent piece of noise/neo freak-folk. So is Animal Crack Box for that matter. CHz is… over-produced? Cluttered? Too much make-up, not enough foundation?
lol fuck u it sucks
No it wasn’t. Your opinion isn’t always right.
Nope. I loved CHz. Applesauce, Rosie Oh, Wide Eyed, and Moonjock are some of their best songs.
CHz was one of my favorite albums of that year. I bought it on vinyl, just like lots of other AC album, because they are always growing and changing. I will only ever be disappointed if AC DOESN’T change up their sound with each album. CHz is far from “A hot mess.”
Thats the beauty of music. If we all liked the same shit it would be a boring world. I mostly listen to death metal but love the Collective!! Glad we dont all like everything the same as I prolly hate your favorite band. Should that matter to you? Absoluteley not. And it wasnt their worst as its already better then this new album because the new song is shit jus annoying repeating of a made up word. But im sure i will love the album anyway as I do all of them!!!
What is it to you that he liked it? Do you really need universal hatred of the things you hate?
So hyped!! Centipede Hz was amazing couldn’t be more excited for what they’ve got instore for us to experience next!!
I agree. Centipede Hertz was a bad album. The aesthetic was garbage and it sounded like they all tried to make their own solo album. It was a big let down mostly because it followed one of the best albums of the 2000s, Merriweather Post Pavilion. Seems like Deacon is gone again. In my opinion his contributions to Centipede were one of my least favourite parts of the album.
There’s so much hate out in internetland for Centipede Hz. I think it’s super underrated. All of its tracks are super entertaining, I don’t find myself ever skipping things. From its first notes, those of Moonjock, it hits hard and continues to hit, hard. Really hard. A little too hard for pitchfork, dexjoun7 and whateverdays. Sure, at times it feels a little cluttered, but that’s the aesthetic they were going for, that doesn’t make the album a bad album and it certainly doesn’t mean its aforementioned aesthetic is garbage. Centipede Hz is supposed to be like listening to an old janked up radio, the clutter is equivalent to other radio stations permeating your what you’re listening to. This is what they wanted, and they did it beautifully and genuinely. To me, this album is like listening to daft punk on the radio, and then some station playing Michael Jackson starts breaking through and you realize that Rollin’ and Scratchin’ sounds incredible with PYT. Centipede Hz is a GREAT ALBUM. It’s supposed to be a hot mess, but you know what else is a hot mess? Fondue. And fondue is delicious.
Hey man, glad you can like CHz for what it is but AnCo is best when they show patience and let the sounds/instruments breathe. Theyre at their best when they delve into sonic exploration and adventure, like going out into the woods and uprooting the music from the dirt itself. All the effects abd production on CHz wash out all the music going on here, especially Aveys vocals, and burn the songs to a crisp. CHz hurts is like eating a really rich cheesecake that you have to pause and have a glass a milk to clean your pallet. It may taste good for a time but you’re probably better off eating something else.
But man sometimes you wanna have that cheesecake. People love cheesecake. They have cheesecake factories. Just don’t push off the album as “bad”. You don’t have to like it, but it’s not bad, I hate bananas, but a lot of people like bananas, it’d be wrong for me to say bananas are bad, they just aren’t for me.
I never said it was bad, I said it was cheesecake, dense, thick but not bad. I just don’t have the taste for cheesecake as much as other things but I still have some every so often. I did say it was their worst release but its still pretty good, like a 5/10, if I wanted to give it an arbitrary number. CHz is a decent listen with good tunes on it but the rest of their stuff is better.
Let’s hope that Painting With is like regular cake. Always dope.
Excellent argument!
I like Centipede Hz, but agree it’s not quite on the same level as most of their previous releases. Though I will say all of the Centipede Hz songs clicked a lot more with me after seeing them do them live.
LEAK IT DEAK
I like how you can’t look forward to an animal collective album or compliment a previous album they released without a silly argument amongst other fans about which album is better or worse. Fucking drama queens !
Yas Queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7OSSUwPVM4
hoping it’s nothing like C Hz either.
not a bad record. just not one i fancied.
i easily saw why fans were underwhelmed.
hoping for a proper leak.
FloriDada is bae!!
What’s up with the low-quality leak that is available right now? Is it a real, albeit low-quality, rip?
can’t see whereabouts you’re getting that from
found a leak at vk.com
it’s not very obvious to find, but it’s there
any tip?
nevermind, it’s fake, i think :/
What makes you think it’s fake, are the released versions of Floridada and Lying In The Grass on there?
It’s Neutral Mlik Hotel with Floridada as the first track
one i found was a 42MB, floridada was right, track 2 was some old “i love you jesus” song, and Lying in the grass was not there at all
Is this really leaked or another fake?
No clue how to use Soulseek. Hoping it pops up somewhere else soon.
It’s legit. Available at ICanLeaking if you don’t have Soulseek
it was just ITAOTS again
It’s just fucking Neutral Mlik Hotel
The one from ICanLeaking is not real whatsoever, evve Lying in the grass (which has been released to preorderers) is wrong
Hm… looked legit from first sight, but it looks like you’re right. I’ll take it down.
it’s fake – downloaded it and it’s NMH “in the aeroplane”.
Just listened. It’s a Decemberist’s album. Not legit.
It sounded like The Avett Brothers, I was confused.
Hasn’t actually leaked
Leak is fake, it’s Floridada coupled with a 128 copy of ITAOTS.
Leak status has been reset.
THANKS
itaots on getleaks, its fake again……
Learn from the mistake Get Leaks! Hahaha
is there a way to put a lock on reporting until something real comes out? or a “This release has numerous fake versions out…have you downloaded and listened to this copy and are sure it is not fake” popup before reporting a leak
I’ve heard there is a leak on what.cd, can anybody confirm this?
There’s no leak there.
It’s very confusing, since there’s some who claim that there is in fact a real, legit leak out there.
So far, I haven’t seen any proof.
Word of a advice, one of the fake leaks has Neutral Milk Hotel with Floridada as the first track. The other leaks are super lowbitrate.
Heard Domino accidentally put the 24bit Wav up of the album with the last update for pre-orderers, link i got is only Floridada and Lying in the grass
This isn’t gonna leak !
Oh yee of little faith.
Oh boy just listened to the album, got a watermarked copy from a friend and might I say, it’s something else! My favorite tracks are Bagels in Kiev, The Burglars, and Recycling. I was not a fan of CHz, and I’m loving this new one. Wish I could share it with everyone =(
when is it you’ll think the thing will leak?
will it leak at all?
the wait is killing me now
honestly I don’t think it’s gonna leak just because all of the copies that were distributed were watermarked so if someone does leak it, someone’s losing a job… OOOHHHH but the soouuunnndddsss… I wish I could share them… On Delay might actually be one of my favs now
man I’m dying waiting for this
I too disliked Centipede Hz….think this might be as big as Merriweather?
are there any songs you think are outright rubbish?
any ratings out of 10 or too early?
Reminds me heavily of PBVSGR. Ya know that echo style of lyrics on Boys Latin? There’s a whooole lot of that going on through the whole album.
Recycling is like a lost Beach Boys song that got thrown into a puddle of LSD.
Definitely a whole different vibe than Merriweather, very…trippy-pop. Hard for me to say if it’ll be as big as it.
Not the biggest fan of Vertical, my least favorite as of right now.
Definitely too early for me to be giving it a rating out of 10, I don’t like to make an impression like that so soon because then the number will stick with me and it gets hard for me to shake it off even if I end up completely changing my mind haha.
yeah okay m8, totally believe you got a copy
I have no reason to lie to strangers… Believe it or don’t, up to you man. You’ll believe me when you hear about dinosaurs on Hocus Pocus ;)
http://imgur.com/aj0oRlJ
LOLOLOL HE WASNT LYING LMAO
Watermarks haven’t stopped people in the past. Besides I’m sure there are way around it.
True, but since I was trusted with the copy I’m not gonna try and risk it. Maybe someone else out there who has a copy of it and knows that technical stuff
If it was issued by domino, the watermarks aren’t unique to any third party reviewers themselves unless it’s a REALLY early copy or to somebody who works solo (as in doesnt review for a company, like pitchfork). The watermark is likely generic at this point if it includes al the tracks
any more thoughts on the album CollectiveAnimal?
Just leak it man, I wanna hear it so bad.
+1 some bastard just leak this now!!!!!!
A frequent uploader over at EXIGO cllaimed in IRC to have the 24bit WAV copy that Domino are sending out on the 19th.
Believe it when I see it… er… hear it.
If you manage to get your hands on it from them DM me please
how is this possible?
Because Domino has shit on lockdown.
The leak is a vinyl rip, it is not the best quality but all of the songs are there, it is one large track but all of the tracks are there.
It’s a crosley rip in 128kbps and has a buzzing sound in the background, for anybody who doesn’t have it it might not be worth getting unless you’re super hyped.