Animal Collective - Honeycomb / Gotham

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.

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)

Thanks for the Spotify tip.

These tracks are terribad. What happened?

  On 5/7/2012 at 8:41 PM, Tauhid said:

These tracks are terribad. What happened?

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

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

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.

Gotham is good :)

they're both terrigood.

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.

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.

id be shocked if honeycomb was not on the album

  On 5/8/2012 at 2:04 AM, nene multiple assgasms said:

they're both terrigood.

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

edit: listened; yup. imaginative emphasis on the good

doing production on an ac piece must be quite the job

  On 5/8/2012 at 2:22 AM, spike said:

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:

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

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

yea they toured the hell out of all this new material

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

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.

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!

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

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

  On 5/10/2012 at 6:00 AM, zaphod said:

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?

  On 5/10/2012 at 7:45 PM, nene multiple assgasms said:

  On 5/10/2012 at 6:00 AM, zaphod said:

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.

  On 5/11/2012 at 12:18 AM, zaphod said:

  On 5/10/2012 at 7:45 PM, nene multiple assgasms said:

  On 5/10/2012 at 6:00 AM, zaphod said:

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.