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My review (summary: bad)

posted 14 years ago by cakoose
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First of all: I'm not an Animal Collective fan. I think "they're ok".

I really liked about a third of the music in Oddsac. The rest was ok.

I liked two of the visuals. The first scene with the girl and the lights, and the scene with the guy walking on the rocks and the three-piece drum set. The rest was bad.

There's a TV-static/kaleidoscope sequence that lasts way too long and doesn't add anything to the music. There's also a bunch of weird scenes that might have been worthwhile had they built up to something or connected with the music in some way, but nope.

I saw this thing with an Animal Collective megafan who said she liked the music and was totally disappointed with the visuals. "Who is this Danny Perez guy?" "How did Animal Collective even approve of this?" She sounded a bit betrayed and a bit embarrassed for bringing me along :-)

There are probably people who loved Oddsac, but I get the feeling there's little correlation between liking AnCo music and liking the Oddsac visuals.

[–] Mrob2738 14 years ago

I applaud you for being able to sit through ODDSAC without being a fan of Animal Collective.

"On a long enough timeline the survival rate of everyone drops to 0."

[–] thebedtimestory 14 years ago

If she were really a megafan, she would have known that "This Danny Perez guy" is the man behind the visuals of all Animal Collective's live performances, and also the guy they have been working with for four years, filming hundreds of hours of footage for this film.

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[–] bebopincalvin 14 years ago

I liked it. Some parts I even liked a lot.

If you talk about the piece saying the music is *blank* while the visuals were *blank* then you're missing the point. It's being released as a "Visual Album" and I think it's important to not forget this. Animal Collective and Danny Perez created it without separating the two and so it should be watched as such. It's not meant to be a plot that is scored with music or a music video that caters to the lyrics of the song, it's all one "thing" so it comes off as very spontaneous and perhaps unconnected and it does this by leaning toward the musical approach to art since a lot of albums are merely a collection of disjointed songs that don't necessarily relate to each other. The scenes in ODDSAC replicate this visually.

Watch the TV-static sequence again. That visual is very densely layered and every movement corresponds to a sound in song that occurs. You may still not like that sequence but it's important to at least recognize that aspect before passing judgement.

[–] mjship11 14 years ago

i watched the static sequence. that part didn't impress me. how they sync the timing of the "music" to the static on the screen is just a poor man's version of a common visualizations feature you'll find using music players such as winamp or windows media player.

i do nott really think that the members of animal collective are actually poor men ;)

[–] bowser724 14 years ago

Except it was made by hand, not with a visualization algorithm. See also the video for Autechre's Gantz Graf.

[–] DingoTheSquirrel 14 years ago

shut up

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[–] finnhnsn 13 years ago

As bowser(place number here) had said, that scene was completely drawn by hand. During the Q & A at the local showing someone asked if it was just a little visualizer. Danny pretty much explained that it was drawn by hand, etc. Leading to what they are; and it's not supposed to be static. Danny said he imagines little hiker-men while the asker said he thought they were birds or bats.

[–] laserwolfftw 12 years ago

I dug the visuals, I think I was the only person that did..

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[–] the-one-who-knocks 11 years ago

I'm a HUGE Animal Collective fan, and Oddsac sounds really boring to me. I would never be able to sit through a "visual movie" with nothing going on.