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July 27, 2007

Animal Collective, After The Jam

When the Collective toured just prior to Sung Tongs' release, they treated Animal acolytes to sets pulling primarily from Feels -- a group of tunes more than a year away from seeing the studio. And those catching the Geologist/Avey/Panda express these days (we hear Deakin's not on this tour? He was sitting off-stage at the Seaport) are getting more of the same; little from Strawberry Jam, lots of unreleased stuff. iGIF has a zip of a recent London show, where AC performed a reworked "Who Could Win A Rabbit," "Leaf House," "Loch Raven" ... and nothing off Jam. The rest are brand new tunes, and a potential preview at the next record to induce a Collective freak out. The lesson? Expectations are fun to fuck with.


[Pic from Animal Collective @ South Street Seaport 6/1/07]

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um, duh? did anyone expect them to play SJ songs? if you did then you probably never followed AC until now.

Posted by: mike at 07/27/07 1:40 PM  | Reply
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Animal Collective is the 4th greatest band ever to have walked to planet. And Jam is their opus (thus far!)

Posted by: Tomothy at 07/27/07 3:22 PM  | Reply
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ok tomothy, i'll bite. who's top three?

Posted by: lavagna at 07/27/07 3:30 PM  | Reply
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yeah, psh, seriously, like, duh, squared, to the power of five, guh, fnaw, ha, juh, der, mike is right. if you thought they'd even PLAY songs then you're a fucking newbie. AC are so past SJ and even the fucking ABC that it's all about that noise kids make when they squeeze their fists under their armpits. it's amazing. AC rock so hard that the only time they blow is when they're air conditioning.

Posted by: seth at 07/27/07 4:53 PM  | Reply
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when i saw them on the Feels tour they played a lot of songs from Feels, a few new ones and a few old ones. but when I saw them in 2003, despite the fact that they played songs from here comes the indian, they didn't sound anything like the album versions at all. thanks for the link, by the way.

Posted by: Connor at 07/27/07 9:07 PM  | Reply
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Strawberry Jam is the best album I have heard in 7 years. I still have no idea what "bullimic vegetarian wins rain contest" means though. Anyone have an idea, or is it just absurd? Either

Posted by: DC from PA living in LA at 10/13/07 7:38 PM  | Reply
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