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Animal Collective tour datesleaked

Thu 25th Jun, 2009 in Local News

When hype heroes Animal Collective were announced on the line-up for Japan’s Fuji Rock Festival in July, our fingers and toes were crossed for a Splendour In The Grass appearance. Sadly, it was not to be and the four-piece was enshrined in our 25 Most Wanted Tours.

Now it transpires there could be a chance we’ll see the masters of psychadelia at a much more intimate affair, Victoria’s Meredith Music Festival in December. A reputable (our Boston Uni intern tells us so) American website called Jam Base has posted four Animal Collective Australian tour dates out of the blue – Meredith, plus three sideshows.

It’d be quite a coup to see the band down under again, after the runaway success of most recent album Merriweather Post Pavilion ensured they have been touring without pause. Stay tuned to FasterLouder for further updates. In the meantime, get re-acquainted with our Animal Collective interview from February and the Merriweather Post Pavilion review.

Animal Collective leaked tour dates, according to jambase.com.

10 Dec – Tivoli, Brisbane
11 Dec – Enmore Theatre, Sydney
12 Dec – Meredith Music Festival
17 Dec – Capitol, Perth

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pandup

pandup said on the 25th Jun, 2009

I will lose my shit ten times over! mad!

dkos

dkos said on the 25th Jun, 2009

This is the best news I've heard in the last 2 decades (it's not, but I am excited none the less).

sarahanne

sarahanne said on the 25th Jun, 2009

I am dying - cant deal

feelingsinister

feelingsinister said on the 25th Jun, 2009

I don't just <3 this.. i REALLY REALLY <3 this!

sophieb90

sophieb90 said on the 25th Jun, 2009

andy_chalmers_102

andy_chalmers_102 said on the 25th Jun, 2009

I just bought Green Day tickets for 11 December. Please kill me.

Adshoey

Adshoey said on the 25th Jun, 2009

I am leaving for Canada on the 9th of December......
Please no.... Let the dates be wrong!!

Stefan Beck

Stefan Beck said on the 25th Jun, 2009

If you guys want you could come to my house,I'll smash a keyboard with a saucepan and get my nine year old twin cousins to yell into a microphone.

It'll be pretty much the same and I'll charge you half as much.

tyler07

tyler07 said on the 25th Jun, 2009

If you guys want you could come to my house,I'll smash a keyboard with a saucepan and get my nine year old twin cousins to yell into a microphone.

It'll be pretty much the same and I'll charge you half as much. [2]

sarahanne

sarahanne said on the 25th Jun, 2009

If you guys want you could come to my house,I'll smash a keyboard with a saucepan and get my nine year old twin cousins to yell into a microphone.

It'll be pretty much the same and I'll charge you half as much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zol2MJf6XNE

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 25th Jun, 2009

If you guys want you could come to my house,I'll smash a keyboard with a saucepan and get my nine year old twin cousins to yell into a microphone.

It'll be pretty much the same and I'll charge you half as much.

Adding this to my Last.FM events list.

Stefan Beck

Stefan Beck said on the 25th Jun, 2009

See you there!

I'll be the dude in the geologist helmet.

tyler07

tyler07 said on the 25th Jun, 2009

i admire your hate of AC stefan,
the way my friends obssess over this mess of a band makes me feel a tad queasy

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 25th Jun, 2009

AC hate is so two thousand and LATE.

dkos

dkos said on the 25th Jun, 2009

I see your My Girls, and I raise you this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxhaRgJUMl8

sarahanne

sarahanne said on the 25th Jun, 2009

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 25th Jun, 2009

Both are fantastic, but both of you seem to be forgetting

[youtube]rzVOpJGW9bg[/youtube]

Joe Smiggens

Joe Smiggens said on the 25th Jun, 2009

If you guys want you could come to my house,I'll smash a keyboard with a saucepan and get my nine year old twin cousins to yell into a microphone.

It'll be pretty much the same and I'll charge you half as much.

Recent reports from Bonnaroo (I think) said they sucked live. Must've been something with the sound system or something. Funny how a TV on the Radio came on after them and sounded great eh?

billo

billo said on the 25th Jun, 2009

holy fuck balls!!!

grattan

grattan said on the 25th Jun, 2009

Why aren't all first posts this profound?

Stefan Beck

Stefan Beck said on the 25th Jun, 2009

Man,I hope he's the bearded dude in his avatar.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 25th Jun, 2009

Nice sources, fool. Unless you were there, I'd shaddap!

I'm in love.

dkos

dkos said on the 26th Jun, 2009

Joe Smiggens

Joe Smiggens said on the 26th Jun, 2009

Nice sources, fool. Unless you were there, I'd shaddap!

I'm in love.

http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7669-bonnaroo-2009/

there you go buttwad.

billo

billo said on the 26th Jun, 2009

nah, im the guy on the left sorry to dissapoint. ran into him at some weird bush doof off of ATP mt bulla. had to get a photo with him. im the slightly less attractive dude on the left

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 26th Jun, 2009

I now think less of you.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 26th Jun, 2009

http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7669-bonnaroo-2009/

there you go buttwad.

So they had a bad timeslot and poor sound. That's what I got outta that, buttwad!

billo

billo said on the 26th Jun, 2009

fuckn shattered

tyler07

tyler07 said on the 26th Jun, 2009

when you say 'off the heazy' underneath your name, is that a bring me the horizon refrence or some sort of wigga comment?

billo

billo said on the 26th Jun, 2009

tyler07

tyler07 said on the 26th Jun, 2009

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 26th Jun, 2009

Actually, BMTH suck so it's probably for the better.

billo

billo said on the 26th Jun, 2009

ya get that. now back to the animal collective talk.

did anyone on here see AC last time they toured.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 26th Jun, 2009

That's a negative on my behalf.

dogmongler said on the 26th Jun, 2009

who cares

btw if you care u gay

bhutos said on the 26th Jun, 2009

I cannot possibly agree more... except that for me it mainly means sideshows which I'd prefer.. although given the level of crush, I could easily do Meredith as well.

bhutos said on the 26th Jun, 2009

Just reading this again after losing my shit... hype heroes? They're a fucking decade old.. Most everyone here would surely be aware of them for at least the last half of that? "Grass" at least was on high rotation on Rage...They're not Passion Pit.. wtf?

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 26th Jun, 2009

You'd be a fool to think they weren't riding an epic wave of hype right now, though.

Stefan Beck

Stefan Beck said on the 26th Jun, 2009

Epic wave of UNDESERVED/UNWARRANTED/UNICYCLE hype.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 26th Jun, 2009

Please, Steven, you've made your point; now make with the funnies or skidaddle.

dogmongler said on the 26th Jun, 2009

here's a joke

why do animal collective exist

because there sure are a lot of faggots out there LOL

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 26th Jun, 2009

You should start a comedy club with James and Will.

dogmongler said on the 26th Jun, 2009

mab the only thing in the known universe greater than your lust for dick is your ass' ability to fulfill it

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 26th Jun, 2009

That's all you've got? Seriously? Gay jokes?
Wow, you need some new material, or at least your mojo back.
That was yawn-worthy.

dogmongler said on the 26th Jun, 2009

i'm sure that the sight of your gaping mouth caused many males nearby to get their mojo back

and to fuck said mouth HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 26th Jun, 2009

That's great, man; are you done?
I can wait.

dogmongler said on the 26th Jun, 2009

at least you can distract yourself by making music for men

using one of these

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/4797/porkypigthatsallfolksclkc4.jpg

Stefan Beck

Stefan Beck said on the 26th Jun, 2009

Yeah,me saying that Animal Collective were riding an epic wave of unicycle hype was meant to be taken completely seriously.

Sidebar:
Is that yours Conor?

dogmongler said on the 26th Jun, 2009

nah bro that's wikidick

i wish mine was that famous

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 26th Jun, 2009

I live for srs bsnss

dogmongler said on the 26th Jun, 2009

HOLY SHIT IT'S DRIPPING

Stefan Beck

Stefan Beck said on the 26th Jun, 2009

I would actually go to this if they performed on unicycles.

dogmongler said on the 26th Jun, 2009

i'd go if they played unirally

Stefan Beck

Stefan Beck said on the 26th Jun, 2009

I would go if they wore unicorn costumes.

dogmongler said on the 26th Jun, 2009

i would go if they were the unicorns

Stefan Beck

Stefan Beck said on the 26th Jun, 2009

I would go if Unicron from the animated Transformers movie was going to be there.

dogmongler said on the 26th Jun, 2009

i would go if neu read from the necronomicon

bhutos said on the 27th Jun, 2009

A band has consistently produced "best of the year" albums for the past half decade and someone has the balls to look ignorant enough to say they're hyped now??

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v201/jamtart/timeline.jpg

Was it Pitchfork giving Merriweather 0.4 of a point more than the last two albums? Or that it might put them at #1 for albums of '09 instead of #2 for albums of 04? There is also a difference between hype, which is mostly defined as a questionable and deceptive promotion of an unknown quantity or the over promotion of a new entity and the unwashed masses finally waking up to a band that has consistently received critical praise and glowing reviews for many, many years (reals = few extra pill heads can dance to the last album ). I'm not arguing they're not more popular than a couple of years ago, fuck, call them trendy to like (more than '03-08?), but hype however is a pejorative word in the main and is not very applicable here unless you mention it's the end bit of at least half a decade of hype and overwhelmingly backed up by a similar length of critical acclaim.

In the immortal words of C+C Music Factory, this is one of those things that make you go hmmm.

dogmongler said on the 27th Jun, 2009

huge burn right there

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 27th Jun, 2009

Okay, I'll respond to this in hope that mister bhutos hasn't had cardiac arrest since his kneejerk reaction of a post.

What are you trying to say here? That they're not more hyped now than ever? Sure, there's been plenty surrounding their other records but the closest I've seen to a negative review of the record thus far has been a 3.5/5 in Rolling Stone. Plus, I've now seen them on Video Hits; which I don't think would have happened previously, however small this may seem.

This isn't entirely about Pitchfork by a long shot, but you have to take into consideration that this is the highest rating they've given anything since Funeral back in 2004.

I appreciate where you're coming from, and I understand that the band have had a strong critical following for many years. But you'd have to admit that the band are getting more exposure now more than ever - for many, this will be the first time they've heard or seen Animal Collective; and I doubt that the band could have filled a venue like the Enmore Theatre (if these dates are to be believed) on the back of, say, Sung Tongs or Feels.

Sure, hype might be a dirty word; but there's plenty going around for AC right now, and it's believable.

tyler07

tyler07 said on the 29th Jun, 2009

can't we just all admit that this isnt very exciting news... get excited about the britney spears tour instead :)

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 29th Jun, 2009

I don't know which is more exciting.

sarahanne

sarahanne said on the 29th Jun, 2009

Im just excited about life.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 29th Jun, 2009

And so you should be!

worldsfastest

worldsfastest said on the 29th Jun, 2009

Sadly this isn't a joke

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 29th Jun, 2009

Yeahhhhhhhhh freedom

bhutos said on the 29th Jun, 2009

Given you have professed an interest in being a music journalist, and therefore might have a passing interest in what words mean and how to use them:

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/knee-jerk+reaction.html

knee jerk != thought out, explanatory and referenced argument.

Call it pedantic, call it being pointlessly argumentative, call me a fanboy, just use words that actually mean what you think they mean when you do it, kay?

kisses.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 29th Jun, 2009

I love how you have no other argument apart from the definition of one term.

grattan

grattan said on the 29th Jun, 2009

knee jerk != thought out, explanatory and referenced argument.

It was a knee jerk reaction - there may have been a little thought and referencing in the delivery, but it came from the basic kneejerk thought of 'MAB has an opinion - it must be wrong'.

They're a fucking decade old.. Most everyone here would surely be aware of them for at least the last half of that?

Everyone here? Really? Seriously?

And on another note - we may want to cool our heels on this a wee bit, the tour's not official yet.

dogmongler said on the 29th Jun, 2009

how do you a cool a heal

actually wait, i guess the answer is dencorub

bhutos said on the 30th Jun, 2009

The rest of your post was mutual masturbation with the points I made or caveats I gave. I said they were more popular and people would be hearing them for the first time.. how do I respond to the Funeral reference - "yeah it's the highest rating since Funeral in '04 - guess who was right under Funeral for that year though - Animal Collective". That's a fact I already stated. I guess I could say it again but it didn't feel like a "gotcha" just that you were pointing out what beat it. If you want me to argue, disagree with me more than you mis-use the words you use. I half thought you were trolling me into a second definition post.

tyler07

tyler07 said on the 30th Jun, 2009

yeah you guys should maybz cool it until a touring company announces they are in fact coming,
although it would be mildly amusing after all this if the tour was in fact false.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 30th Jun, 2009

bhutos - I think it's necessary to point out that you started this, and when I actually decided to respond you seem to be in a tailspin. That last post made next to no sense.

bhutos said on the 30th Jun, 2009

This could be a joke. On the chance it isn't, you're completely wrong. Unlike the others here I'm not really a participant enough to care about individual posters in that way although there are couple of people I respect mainly from individual posts. I've seen MAB cop shit from the others which is how I know about the journalism but I didn't know why he was copping shit, don't care and this is probably the first entanglement we've had. I just have this annoying trait of arguing with the person who's started an argument with me. I know it's funny to respond to direct communication but thats just the way I roll. I would have said the exact same thing to anyone who replied to me in the manner he did. As an unrepentant and single minded cunt, I'd like it pointed out where I haven't argued like a pitbull with lockjaw on any irrelevant point put to me by anyone. I'm here for sport inbetween work, not to be liked.

Everyone here? Really? Seriously?

I said most everyone. This is a self selective group of music interested people who have sought out an online music based forum. If I had to choose a group of people for a band awareness quiz outside of their respective fan forums this would be close to the top. AC has been on Rage for 5+ years which music interested people should have come across, AC has been on Pitchfork for longer, which is a gauge of web popularity, AC has been on JJJ for that period, AC has been in Rolling Stone etc. I'm not going to say you can't be into music if you don'nt listen to the radio, watch music tv, read music blogs or read music magazines, but if I had to bust out the venn diagrams there would be multiple overlaps with the FL crew. "Most everyone here would be aware of them"... I didn't exactly set a high bar as though they had to be walking wikipedia entries and I didn't say everyone. Of course there are some noobs or 15 year old festival blow ins but the statement itself is also somewhat self selective, it assumes an active interest in music for at least half a decade. As far as I'm concered, once you're in the ABC mix of Rage and JJJ, most music interested people are going to be aware of you, even if it's just "oh those guys with that shouty song and green film clip". It's a certain level of penetration that should reach most people here even if like me you don't really listen to JJJ etc. it means they should be on your radar in whatever media you do consume unless you're really heavily specialised in your taste, ie metal magazines, blogs etc which would put you in the "not most everyone category".

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 30th Jun, 2009

Lunchtime philosophy ftw.

The main problem with your argument is that you assume that "most everyone" thinks like you and has known about them for so long.

I've been a dedicated rage watcher since I was thirteen and never noticed Animal Collective until the video of "Peacebone".

Again, never noticed until about 2007 (been listening to Triple J since I was twelve, have had a subscription to Rolling Stone for three years now). Sure, I'm just one person, but there are a fuckload of different people and different tastes here. You can't just lump it all in with "the FL crew".

Don't get so offended that a lot of people are paying attention now as opposed to before.

bhutos said on the 30th Jun, 2009

That says more about your reading comprehension than it does about me I'm afraid. I'll bullet point so your comprehension doesn't go into a tailspin trying to keep up with me next time - I do sometimes unfairly assume a certain level of comprehension and the ability to juxtapose what has been said previously with the very present context which I have to keep reminding myself doesn't always exist or isn't regarded as worth bothering with.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 30th Jun, 2009

I wasn't trying to start an argument. You're the one who took what I said and ran six miles over the line with it.

Also, you sound like a sixty year-old turtleneck wearing art critic.
Remove head from arsehole, then post.

bhutos said on the 30th Jun, 2009

Lunchtime philosophy ftw.
The main problem with your argument is that you assume that "most everyone" thinks like you and has known about them for so long.

I've been a dedicated rage watcher since I was thirteen and never noticed Animal Collective until the video of "Peacebone".

Again, never noticed until about 2007 (been listening to Triple J since I was twelve, have had a subscription to Rolling Stone for three years now). Sure, I'm just one person, but there are a fuckload of different people and different tastes here. You can't just lump it all in with "the FL crew".

Don't get so offended that a lot of people are paying attention now as opposed to before.

My lunchtime is over and I have to get back to it now, which is a shame as this post is juicy, you say I make assumptions based on people thinking like me as opposed just referencing the reality of how most music interested people consume music interest media and how AC has featured in that media and then go on to validate my assumptions. How exactly is you watching Rage, listening to JJJ and reading RS against my argument that most people here have exposure to those kinds of media? Secondly you're the one arguing from personal perception, as we've recently discussed, your comprehension isn't the highest. It's not exactly a revelation that AC has been featured in all those media types for the last 5 years and you just haven't noticed it. "Grass" was on high rotation on Rage in '05. I don't know how old you are and can't check atm so maybe that's before you started your dedication.

I don't in anyway expect everyone to know of every band that gets mentioned.. There is heaps of shit that falls through the cracks, I'm sure I've come across bands and forgotten them 5 minutes later.. I've had many embarrassing situations where i go "OH THIS SONG!" however the crew here are pretty damn onto it, plenty of times I feel completely out of the loop in comparison.. being aware of a band that has had every album in Pitchfork's toplists is LAMER knowledge in comparison to some of the knowledge around here.. it's fucking Pitchfork for god's sakes.

What makes you think i'm offended? I think it's great. I hate tards that get precious when their band gets popular. The latest flavors they use coincide a little more with what is popular at the moment. That's a good thing, it means they bother coming out here to tour. The only thing that offends me is a malformed understanding of the english language. Call them popular, call them trendy, say they've gone mainstream.. say they're on an ever higher crest of hype from a wave of hype that is half a decade old... Hype by itself however, especially in an article intended for music interested people on the net doesn't really fit their situation. FL isn't Video Hits.

bhutos said on the 30th Jun, 2009

Yeah and?

Also, you sound like a sixty year-old turtleneck wearing art critic.
Remove head from arsehole, then post.

A. Turtlenecks are so '02 you vision impaired spectacle of tastelessness.
B. My head in that location is the best place to familiarise myself with the matter of your posts.

Joe Smiggens

Joe Smiggens said on the 30th Jun, 2009

Bhutos, did you ever post here under a different guise?

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 30th Jun, 2009

you say I make assumptions based on people thinking like me as opposed just referencing the reality of how most music interested people consume of music interest media and how AC has featured in that media and then go on to validate my assumptions.

How exactly is you watching Rage, listening to JJJ and reading RS against my argument that most people here have exposure to those kinds of media?

Do you know how many bands feature in that medium? Even a constant consumer such as myself doesn't know every band played or reviewed, even in passing and even if they've been covered more than once.

I'm eighteen. I was definitely watching rage in 2005.
I'm watching the video right now and I have no recollection of it. I won't dispute it was on high rotation, but this furthers my point that I can't keep tabs on everything.

So if you know this, then where does your argument lie? Because we're all here because we like music we thus have to pay the exact amount of attention as you?

But you're so cool. However could this be?

Because you sounded hugely offended when the article referred to the band as "hype heroes". Which you seem to think they are to begin with, even if they have been so for "a fucking decade".

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O0KNC-mV2AI/SRNr8Pui89I/AAAAAAAAABk/s08Bd9Lgd8Y/s320/dog+chasing+tail.gif

So you were just looking for an excuse to whinge about the demographic?
Jesus Christ.

bhutos said on the 30th Jun, 2009

I was on mono.net back in the day but thats about it as far as aussie music forums are concerned.

bhutos said on the 30th Jun, 2009

I've already stated this. This is useless repetition. It's not a question of individual cases but probabilities based on the weight of the variables involved.

I'm eighteen. I was definitely watching rage in 2005.
I'm watching the video right now and I have no recollection of it. I won't dispute it was on high rotation, but this furthers my point that I can't keep tabs on everything.

I've already implied you didn't recall it.

You are going to make me break out the venn diagrams aren't you. If you're going to guess my arguments, could you try to imagine for a minute that you're half clever and use one of those arguments in my tongue instead of a retarded one. tx.

The argument here.. and please. try to follow this.. is that people here are particularly musically aware.. ok? Now onto the tricky part.. These musically aware people, posting on a forum called "all about the music" who spend their time dumping shit on kids in the festival forums, are statistically very likely to be aware of a band that came second to Funeral in '04 on a site that is so big it's uncool, has been on JJJ and Rage for half a decade etc etc etc. I'd like to say there's more.. but thats pretty much it really in relation to that point I don't know why you haven't been able to wrap your noodle around that.

You know, I ask myself this very same question in the mirror every night while jerking off, but it's not because I don't know personally, it's in third person because my penis has low self esteem.

If I were you I'd start second guessing your comprehension. Offended at the misuse of the word, maybe. Did I not make that clear? Just wait.. want me to repost my first argument now that you seem to be about to put two and two together?

So you were just looking for an excuse to whinge about the demographic?
Jesus Christ.

As tempted as I am to put a stupid explanation in your mouth, I might actually ask what you're talking about here as it might be amusing to me. There are two demographics in that snippet. FL readers and Video Hits watchers. I'm clearly giving FL a compliment by implying they're all musically aware and not "Video Hits watchers". Several pages of discussion have been spent on one line of me saying "most everyone here" would have been aware of AC, which I obviously think is a good thing, with two people arguing I'm giving the forum too much credit in their music nerdness. So it can't be that. The alternative is that I've written 5 pages of vapid tenaciousness in the hope that at the end i'd be able to get a barb in about Video Hits watchers. More angles.. demographics mentioned.. AC fans, AC haters, music media consumers.. festival blow ins... 15 year olds.. Hmm.. I haven't whinged about any of them... just wait.. let us look at what you're replying to:

"The only thing that offends me is a malformed understanding of the english language. Call them popular, call them trendy, say they've gone mainstream.. say they're on an ever higher crest of hype from a wave of hype that is half a decade old... Hype by itself however, especially in an article intended for music interested people on the net doesn't really fit their situation."

lets juxtapose for a second with my initial statement:

"There is also a difference between hype, which is mostly defined as a questionable and deceptive promotion of an unknown quantity or the over promotion of a new entity. I'm not arguing they're not more popular than a couple of years ago, fuck, call them trendy to like, but hype however is a pejorative word in the main and is not very applicable here unless you mention it's the end bit of at least half a decade of hype and overwhelmingly backed up by a similar length of critical acclaim."

HOLY FUCK - I think I almost understand! It's almost as though i've said the exact same thing for two pages! But.. and this troubles me, not only do you still fail to understand what I thought was a very simple issue, but you take my DIRECT explanation "The only thing that offends me is a malformed understanding of the english language" and still fail to understand... You are taking me far beyond C&C Music Factory territory here, let me fetch a compass magnetic to true retard and i'll be back.

Joe Smiggens

Joe Smiggens said on the 30th Jun, 2009

K. You sort of remind me of someone.

MAB: On the last day of the financial year, 2008/09, the word "hype" don't apply to Animal Collective. That's what I'm getting from bhutos. You got that too?

Now, everybody dance now!

Stefan Beck

Stefan Beck said on the 30th Jun, 2009

Bomp.
Bomp.bomp.
Bomp.bomp.

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 30th Jun, 2009

I really can't be bothered with this anymore.
I saw the wall of text and that's all I needed.

You don't think that hype applies to Animal Collective, I do.
We're different people with different experiences and perspectives.
I don't know why I cared to begin with.

Dinnertime philosophy ftl.

Stefan Beck

Stefan Beck said on the 30th Jun, 2009

I might be fiercely anti Animal Collective but 2009 is their motherfucking year.

89 out of 100 on Metacritic?
9.6 from Pitchfork?
Hitting number 13 on the billboard charts when the best they'd managed before was 72?

MorningAfterboy

MorningAfterboy said on the 30th Jun, 2009

Which is what prompted me to say they were hyped now.
Obviously I'm wrong, as the condescending philosopher has so dutifully informed me in his essays.

grattan

grattan said on the 30th Jun, 2009

Hitting number 13 on the billboard charts when the best they'd managed before was 72?

Exactly. They've been around for a while but the '09 hype has pushed them much harder than ever before. Our Professor Bhutos may well write another thesis in retaliation, but deserved or undeserved, long time critical faves or not - 'Animal Collective' and 'hype' are very close friends this year.

bhutos said on the 30th Jun, 2009

K. You sort of remind me of someone.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v201/jamtart/jesusdinosaurpet.jpg

?

dogmongler said on the 1st Jul, 2009

agreeing with bhutos on this one, sung tongs was one of the first albums i read about when i first discovered p4k and tbh ac have been on a rocket to the blogostratosphere for a hell of a long time these days.

plus, since when did sales = hype? if anything that would be living up to the hype, the hype they've been steadily accruing for SEVERAL YEARS

dkos

dkos said on the 13th Sep, 2009

So these sideshow dates were fake, yeah?

Dylan29

Dylan29 said on the 13th Sep, 2009

nope...

http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=30375&ref=moshtix

More to come.