[MP3]
Phoenix – Love Like a Sunset (Animal Collective Remix/Deakin’s Jam)
2 of the most relevant bands of the year, Phoenix and Animal Collective ‘collab’ to output a remix of some song. I feel like this takes me back to the bloghouse era, when the most relevant bloghouse bands would create alt-synergy by remixing one another. We have possibly never seen a collab on this level in the history of the indiesphere. Wish I could be an entry level music criticism bro so that I could ‘get pumped for hearing this mp3 for the first time’ and then ‘talk myself into the mp3 being 70% better than it actually is.’ Would possibly create a writeup that utilized the word ‘pop’ in some ‘descriptive’ phrase like ‘melted pop sensibilities.’ I will also use of the word ‘textural.’ In addition, this theoretical writeup/review would include commentary on the state of modern indie music and the effects of ‘internet hype’, eventually losing focus on analysis of the actual song. My writeup would include between 5-10 hyperlinks to previous AnCo+Phoenix content that my blogsite had generated.
I feel like this remix is possibly ‘forgettable’, or it is possibly ‘Phoenix in their natural form.’ While Phoenix’s songs are ‘catchy’, it is impossible to decipher ‘what the fuck they are talking about’ in their lyrics. This possibly has to do with a French to English language barrier. Imagine if u had to write ’smart-sounding’ pop lyrics in a foreign language and ended up making weird/forced/generic metaphors in every1 of your songs. Phoenix has sorta turned into Jonas Brothers tween pop for hi level music criticism bros.
Sorta miss Deakin. Since most of my readership became AnCo fans after MerriweathPostPavvy, you might not know that AnCo had a fourth member named ‘The Deakin’ a long time ago. He ‘left the band’ and no1 really knows what happens. Wonder ‘what really happened’ to Deakin. Seems like they must be hiding something. I feel like they hand him remix work ‘for sympathy’ just because they feel bad, and still ‘want him to feel involved.’ Seems like the remixes would be better if Panda Bear made them. Does n e 1 know what happened with DeakinGate?
It seems like I would hear this song in a local coffee shop when an entry-level barista selects a playlist to try to seem ‘authentic.’ They would also probably play something by the Knife followed by a Fever Ray song, just to prove that they ‘understand’ that the broad from the Knife is Fever Ray.
Relevant Band + Relevant Band ≠ Relevant Remix
-Carles, 2009
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37 Comments
self promotion. first.
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//////////Reply by BerkeleyBro
//////////Posted October 1st, 2009 at 8:59 pm
@colobro, i iz hopin on ur bandwagon. FIRST TOO
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//////////Reply by brobrobroOOOO
//////////Posted October 2nd, 2009 at 6:30 am
@BerkeleyBro,
Now its a threesome. Hope yall are down. Maybe justify it as an experimental ‘one time thing,’ possibly while ‘very fucked up.’
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you already mentioned this Carles.
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//////////Reply by fullscale008
//////////Posted October 1st, 2009 at 11:00 pm
@puppyface, when it comes to anco, crles is on permanent repetition.
homeboys have been around forever
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<3 carlesbro
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first
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also first
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AnCo + Deakin = what albumz?
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//////////Reply by brian
//////////Posted October 1st, 2009 at 7:53 pm
@megan,
strawbjam
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//////////Reply by skybeard
//////////Posted October 1st, 2009 at 8:45 pm
@megan,
he played ‘the guitar parts’ in old AnCo. look on Wiki stupid!
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//////////Reply by megan
//////////Posted October 2nd, 2009 at 1:25 am
@skybeard, 2 lay Z.
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also first
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definitely 1st
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Firstest with the mostest.
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kind of boring.
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seems like a chill remix, and better than the original because it isn’t 7 minutes long
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//////////Reply by hobro
//////////Posted October 1st, 2009 at 8:09 pm
the original is much better, they should prolly keep deakinbro in a cage
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I can’t even imagine someone listening to animal collective’s MPP and not listening to their amazing previous work
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//////////Reply by chickhabit
//////////Posted October 1st, 2009 at 7:55 pm
@chickhabit, not to say MPP wasn’t amazing, of course
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this song blows, post more vids of mainstrmrs singing blckeyed pee songs
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//////////Reply by bro chad chill bro
//////////Posted October 2nd, 2009 at 10:01 am
@DJ 420 Bob Dank Bro, i kno rite?
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u guys r such mnstrmrs (aka new wavve of hro reeders). raggin’ on ‘THE DEAKIN’ is not being prdctive. he’s s0 chill. <3 u deakbro, miss u deakbro.
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//////////Reply by bANANA bro
//////////Posted October 1st, 2009 at 10:47 pm
@BerkeleyBro, totes know what u mean. these entry level new hr0 readers dont know sh!T
rip deakbro.
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//////////Reply by yumyum
//////////Posted October 2nd, 2009 at 12:23 am
@BerkeleyBro,
Agree. old animal collective is absolutely brilliant.
we love deakin.
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//////////Reply by chong
//////////Posted October 2nd, 2009 at 11:17 am
@BerkeleyBro,
word yall
heard they’re putting out a movie/w new music over it and deakinbro is back on it
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//////////Reply by steve
//////////Posted October 2nd, 2009 at 12:13 pm
@BerkeleyBro,
go back to SoCal,
NorCal doesn’t want you anymore
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walkabout may or may not have been a bigger meme.
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fuk ‘quote-unquote’ “pop sensibilities”
don’t really feel like n e 1 knows what that means n e way
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miss u, sung tongs era
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//////////Reply by vdieselfor20
//////////Posted October 1st, 2009 at 10:13 pm
@bloopie, ur old
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//////////Reply by anonymous
//////////Posted October 2nd, 2009 at 4:15 am
@vdieselfor20, manitees dansing on indians coming to our spirited campfire prospects young prayer was the best anco album ever.
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All I even know is Sung Tongs. I’m so late I’m authentic.
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kinda feel like phoenix is one of the sexiest bands ever. carles leave ‘em alone, dont be dissing some band because they are french and automatically classier than the USmainstream “ALTS”. plz, the french started the hipster scene.
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//////////Reply by Gldfsh
//////////Posted October 2nd, 2009 at 6:54 pm
@bANANA bro,
have you ever been to France? Hipster is an American term, used to describe people who conform to certain cliches common in America…the French have their own system of social stereotypes…Also, … Phoenix suck.
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NYE 2k9, a blog millenium ago, was a beautiful moment. AnCo was playin’ at my house. We passed up Crystal Castles to throw the most meaningful NYE ever. AnCo didn’t sound stressful, hectic, amateur, or annoying anymore. They sounded polished, accessible and ready to change the world. We were ready for change. We thought Obama would change American politics as much as MPP would change indie-core, bloghouse, the music industry. There was this sense of possibility that rivaled the hippies’. That somehow Gen Y, ignorant as fuck, could change the world if we tweeted hard enuff, if we micro-blogged enuff, if we “vlogged like no 1 was watching.” I could almost hear Naive Melody.
How wrong were we? Gore Vidal said we’ll be a military dictatorship soon and we didn’t get healthcare reform. Phoenix came out with another album. It didn’t sound at all like MPP. Yeah Yeah Yeahs came out with another album. It didn’t sound at all like MPP. U2 came out with another album. I don’t even know what it sounds like. I don’t think I’ll ever listen to it. The only music that ended up sounding like MPP, chillwave, ended up being a bunch of catchy remixes as conceptual as Kanye. All in all we’re just another brick in the wall. Click “Vanished”, “Crimewave”, “Courtship Dating.” Maybe the crack whore models got it right. Feelin nihilistic yall.
“This ship is totally sinkin!” – Modest Mouse
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//////////Reply by schnappy
//////////Posted October 1st, 2009 at 11:01 pm
@Seasonal Affective D,
well said.
every new band in sydney right now is listing AnCo in their ‘influences’. none of them sound like AnCo.
reminds me of when every new band said they were inspired by the Daft Punks.
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//////////Reply by yumyum
//////////Posted October 2nd, 2009 at 12:28 am
@Seasonal Affective D,
No one has ever sounded like anco. sungtongs/feels included.
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//////////Reply by scott
//////////Posted October 2nd, 2009 at 9:04 pm
@Seasonal Affective D,
hey seasonal affective… are you anne seuff’s cousin?
he did a zine called you.
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crls how you gone play phoenix like (th)(d)at with the JoBro comparison? cmon. PS: @Seasonal Affective D … too many alt references 4 one pgph. Cannot Compute.
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summertime clothes remix plays at the h&m i work at n so does the hit from the new dirty projects, AND a new kylie minogue track, AND BANG A GONG GET IT ON
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//////////Reply by b4hc
//////////Posted October 1st, 2009 at 11:54 pm
@b4hc, damn n so does that irrelevant ladyhawke band’s song that crls links in the relevant links 4 our viewing………..
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I’ve never ever posted before on this site. I’ve been reading for about a year and a half, and I was a fan of Animal Collective after Sung Tongs. This is the funniest post I’ve ever read.
- Your Welcome for not writing in Carles type.
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//////////Reply by dumb faggot
//////////Posted October 2nd, 2009 at 3:00 am
@s money, ‘u’ said your instead of you’re r u trying to trick us
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//////////Reply by s money
//////////Posted October 3rd, 2009 at 10:30 pm
@dumb faggot, Fuck. I’m so sorry.
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http://twitter.com/Hipster_Authen
hipsterauthentic.blogspot.com
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//////////Reply by hyena luver
//////////Posted October 2nd, 2009 at 1:21 am
good1
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carles, can you do a bearded hipster bro penis post?
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Phoenix hd whey bettr lyrucs in United.
leik wtf is Lisztomania sppozed 2 mean??
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//////////Reply by abdul
//////////Posted October 2nd, 2009 at 3:12 am
@TVS, Liztomania was a fucking film by Ken Fucking Russell starring Roger Daltrey out of the fucking who and was a surrealistic treatment of the life of the composer Franz Fucking Liszt, for fuck’s sake.
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//////////Reply by TVS
//////////Posted October 2nd, 2009 at 11:35 am
@abdul, my point exactly.
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first????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/2754/91960475.png
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//////////Reply by bro chad chill bro
//////////Posted October 2nd, 2009 at 10:02 am
@…, cool story
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relevenat relvenat relevnt MYPENIS relevante relevtna
OMGOMGOMG ….
jesus chreist, i saw them both on the same day consecutively, does that make me cool yet hurr durr?
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Legit post, C-dawgg.
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Feel kinda like these Techbro bros went to ITT Tech. Would kinda like to see them do an acoustic set. Not sure what would happen to them during sudden widespread power outage. Kinda makes me wary–like I’m unsure whether we’re in the matrix yet or not. Kinda feel like accepting this music means we’re saying history isn’t good enough–like we ‘free spirited modern men’ want to ‘correct the mistakes of nature.’ Feel like all this music is too ‘REACTIVE.’
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//////////Reply by abdul
//////////Posted October 2nd, 2009 at 12:13 pm
@Seth Stubbs, you’re wrong. it’s got nothing to do with that. what do you think this is? the fucking 1970s?
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//////////Reply by Seth Stubbs
//////////Posted October 2nd, 2009 at 2:28 pm
@abdul, Is the music based on the machine or the machine based on music? Should I take a ‘folk’ song and add zany soundbites to it–to reach a specific demographic? Should I live ‘in’ culture or the more ‘free’ way: ‘in reaction to’ culture–in a ‘counter’ culture?
…What ‘is it about?’ Want to here your thoughts….’ya’ll.’
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//////////Reply by Seth Stubbs
//////////Posted October 2nd, 2009 at 2:56 pm
@Seth Stubbs, Is ‘alt’ trapped in an antithetical matrix–that it must constantly change/’evolve’ to meet the demands ‘mainstream’ places on it? Can it really be called ‘independent’ since it relies on ‘being different’ than ‘mainstream?’
Carles, your description of Phoenix fucking kills. Why aren’t you writing for cokemachineglow/stereogum/p4k?
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So…no one knows anything about Deakin then? An excellent waste of two minutes scrolling through inane, chat-speak bullshit.
Why is this such a damn mystery? I miss Deakin, too. Though AC still is amazing without him. But still, c’mon AC, don’t leave your big fans hangin like this. Bring him back or give us closure.
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i loveeeee this song. i have listened to it oh so much. glad deak’s alive.
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yo, charles.
i got your next post.
the next postal service aka emo xtreme via tween tone-down music.
the next ben gibbard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpAgRjBRzcc
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behold the great band, OWL City
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deankin did not leave the band:
because spirit was only avey and panda. deakin bro has a sort of a ”’pause” beacuse members of AnCo only are a part of AnCo when they co-write the songs. for example if Geo layed down some samples on persons pitch it would be an AnCo record and they would toured that way to.
so if Deakin would co write on the new songs he would be a part, but if for example Geo didn’t he would not be a part of the songs, the album and the tour.
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