Opening with torch-wielding villagers and a wall bleeding oil, this experimental film attaches vivid scenery and strange characters to the wonderful melodic wavelengths of the band Animal Collective, revitalizing the lost form of the "visual album."
USA
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Never thought I'd be afraid of marshmallows but here we are
Holy shit...
You know what? Beyonce can just fuck right off, THIS is a visual album.
Animal Collective has always been one of my favorites bands ever since I discovered them through (like most people) their hit song My Girls. Their discography is one of the most unique, and consistent out there, plus no two releases sound like each other. They jump from genre to genre completely reinventing everything they touch. Anyway, I had heard all their studio albums, EPs, and even Hollindagain, but I had kept putting off their infamous visual album.
Tell now.
Goddamn, It's like Stan Brakhage overdosed on LSD and decided to make a coming of age film.
By the way: best member - Avey Tare, best album - Spirit They've Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
THERE ON THE THRESHOLD
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BELOW TO THE GARDEN
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IN FRONT OF THE REST OF THE
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CITY THAT ENDS AT THE
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BANKS OF THE RIVER
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AND STRETCHES BACK TO ME AND
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HOLDS A SQUARE PATCH OF BACKYARD
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the minute that wraith started screaming i'm like "yup thats avey alright"
unearthed copy of animal collective's audition tape to be the house band for the black lodge
I've lived my whole life up until this point.
Again, didn't actually rewatch this one, but I did interview Animal Collective's Deakin for a feature article for GAFFA Norway on their new album, Time Skiffs. He spoke to me for an hour while driving his car through the remains of a blizzard that had recently. swept through Baltimore. I think all the driving and staring out the windshield made him extra voluble and introspective, which was neat. Our conversation confirmed my long-held intuition that he is indeed the George Harrison of AnCo. Oh, and the new album is all around their best in probably at least a decade.
Really starting to consider getting back on Twitter.
far stranger than kuso
YES KUSO..
If kids back then thought watching a Led Zeppelin laser light show stoned was trippy then theyd probably shit thier pants or go epileptic from this Animal Collective visual album.
Watch it on YouTube
Yeah, this is pretty sick. Majority of songs only work within the film, acting as long interludes between vignettes, but even with transitional songs Animal Collective has always shined. Some surprisingly strong songs here as well, including one of the most overt Brian Wilson impressions by Panda, which is pretty typical, but this one is even more Beach Boys’y than normal. Some really cool visual work to accompany it.
stand out tracks:
Screens
What Happened?
Working / Tantrum Barb
My prime period of Animal Collective enjoyment coincided with their late '00s commercial boom, when the sometimes-quartet hit their stride in melding insistent pop hooks with their experimental/outsider sensibilities. This "visual album" had always been the missing piece of that run for me. Not just a fancy collection of music videos, it's a true stand-alone project featuring original music that was not released otherwise, developed in tandem with visuals by director Danny Perez over a number of years. Having enjoyed Perez's sci-fi/horror freakout Antibirth, his involvement is what made me finally track down this DVD (expensively out of print, but Netflix can still mail it to you!), and my current attraction to non-narratives is what made me pop it in.…
Over the past few years I’ve become a bit of an Animal Collective completionist, going through every studio album, EP, single, live release, and the solo works of each of its four core members. Their visual album Oddsac was one of the very last releases I had to get around to experiencing from one of my all-time favorite bands, and I was saving it for a rainy day being that its from such a classic era for the group – sandwiched between their most pop-friendly, successful flagship release Merriweather Post Pavilion and the noisy, glitched, psychedelic sounds of its somewhat contentious studio follow-up Centipede Hz, though apparently they began work on the film as early as 2006 on the heels…
