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STREAM THE ENTIRE ALBUM

New Animal Collective Album Announced!



Teaser Video

Tracklist

1. Moonjock
2. Today's Supernatural
3. Rosie Oh
4. Applesauce
5. Wide Eyed
6. Father Time
7. New Town Burnout
8. Monkey Riches
9. Mercury Man
10. Pulleys
11. Amanita

Out Sept. 4th.



News

Animal Collective: 'We wrote our new album as a rock band'

Speaking on BBC Radio 1 last night (May 14), Brian Weitz said that the band had "gone back to their roots" on the new record and moved away from the sample-heavy direction of 'Merriweather Post Pavilion'. Asked how it differed from their previous albums, Weitz said: "We all moved back to Baltimore, the last few records we've written apart and by sending each other stuff. This time we all wanted to write in the same room together. We went back to our roots and we got a little practice space in this barn on Josh's [Dibb – fellow band member] mum's property and it was like being a garage band again." He continued: "'Merriweather Post Pavilion' was a very sample-heavy record, we made it piece by piece in the studio, we constructed it. This one we wrote as a rock band in a room and we wanted to record it that way." Weitz then said that the band had enjoyed all the success that their previous effort had brought with it, but that he wasn't sure if he and his bandmates would be comfortable if Animal Collective got any more high profile. He said of this: "The reaction to 'Merriweather Post Pavilion' wasn't out of hand, but as the shows and festivals got bigger and we got media attention, that was something we'll have to come to grips with. I don't know we'd be comfortable getting any bigger than that. It wasn't a burden though."

[Expendable.]

Added a little bit from a BBC1 interview yesterday. Gah, can't wait for them to return.

If you missed their recently released singles: Listen: Animal Collective – “Honeycomb” / “Gotham”

Neither are on the album.

[666]

A rare example of a band totally ruined for me before it had a chance because of their fans and influence.

Yeah, stupid, but true.

[Messofanego]

Expendable, this is not a movie!

[Zilch]

Here's their whole set from Pitchfork last summer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA1UoARSX7w

The setlist is almost all new songs and the top comment provides timecodes and tentative titles for all of them. Mercury is awesome and is probably Mercury Man from the album, Frights is the just-released Honeycomb, etc.

Gonna be a sick album, I think.

[blame space]

i like this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc2Av1dY1p4

[onlyindreams]

i like this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgBeu3FVi60

[gdt]

Oh my gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood I had no idea they were coming back this year.

Those two songs up there are great too. HYPE.

[Expendable.]

Interview with Weitz from last year:

By March’s end, they had penned 10 tracks under the guiding vision, Weitz says, of an alien band from another planet sampling certain sounds from Earth, a reversal on the many human bands who have toyed around with the sounds associated with outer space. They used old recordings from top-40 radio—radio waves beamed into space—and added snippets of song introductions and the reading of call signals from stations like the old B104.3.

[kylej]

With Fall Be Kind, the new 7", and the Keep tape from last year, really hoping weirder AnCo continues on. If I never have to listen to a bro play My Girls during a party again, it'll be too soon.

[PalaceBrother]

I saw them at Stubbs in Austin a few years ago and it was one of the worst shows I've ever seen...and I've seen Sonic Boom play with Speak N Spells for a few hours.

Prior to seeing them I had no idea that they had such a hippie fan base...was stunned.

The worst part? WILL EFFING OLDHAM was playing down the street and I didn't go see him. Still regret it.

Postscript: I ended up really liking Merriweather Post Pavilion when I listened to it again after the show.

[VGChampion]

With Fall Be Kind, the new 7", and the Keep tape from last year, really hoping weirder AnCo continues on. If I never have to listen to a bro play My Girls during a party again, it'll be too soon.

:(

[thestopsign]

With Fall Be Kind, the new 7", and the Keep tape from last year, really hoping weirder AnCo continues on. If I never have to listen to a bro play My Girls during a party again, it'll be too soon.

Where the hell do you hang out that plays Animal Collective at parties? Even if it is their most accessible song.

[Expendable.]

Well, it was in Project X...the ultimate douchebag party.

[Tim-E]

That header image looks like a video game magazine ad from the mid 1990s.

[thestopsign]

Well, it was in Project X...the ultimate douchebag party.

That could explain it.

[Acid08]

With Fall Be Kind, the new 7", and the Keep tape from last year, really hoping weirder AnCo continues on. If I never have to listen to a bro play My Girls during a party again, it'll be too soon.

Pretentious.

[Selkies!]

I wasn't really into MPP. It had some good tracks but as an album Feels and Strawberry Jam did a lot more for me. I really liked the new singles, and I am excited.

[Expendable.]

I wasn't really into MPP. It had some good tracks but as an album Feels and Strawberry Jam did a lot more for me. I really liked the new singles, and I am excited.

Yeah, I loved MPP when it first landed but I revisit Sung Tongs, Feels and Strawberry Jam much more. I hope they get back to that style although this is sounding even further back.

[kudos.]

Yeah, I loved MPP when it first landed but I revisit Sung Tongs, Feels and Strawberry Jam much more. I hope they get back to that style although this is sounding even further back.

I agree but I though Fall Be Kind was a fantastic album. Feels was such a good album.

[gdt]

Eh, I'm hoping they stick with the Beach Boys-y sounding melodies of the last two albums. Though I too loved Fall Be Kind.

Edit: Not saying I don't also love Feels and Sung Tongs! Just stating my preference.

[Rash]

To some people, MPP would be a tough listen. Believe it or not.

I like it the most out of all the AC albums because it strikes that balance between accessible and good. Enough poppiness while not being complete garbage, similar to Radiohead's In Rainbows.

But yeah, I wouldn't imagine anyone playing it at a party. That's just crazy. All that people play when I go out is radio music and other high-exposure music. A real shame.

I'm looking forward to the new AC album.

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New interview:

"It was really important for us to do something that sounded a little bit rawer and more excitable [than Merriweather Post Pavilion]. The pace and tempos on this one are a lot quicker."

To us, Merriweather is a terrestrial record, where you're looking up into space or into the sky, contemplating all this stuff. Comparatively, Centipede Hz is up in space, on a spaceship-- but it's a lot more grounded in one location than off dreamily in the clouds. Since it was all four of us this time around, the idea was to do something a little more live. Most of the rhythm tracks were recorded live by Noah; instrumentation-wise, he doesn't do a lot of other stuff on the record, except for some keyboards here and there. The songs I contributed are more about thinking outwardly and observing things, rather than looking inward. As a record, it's all over the place. Every song has its own special world, and it moves along really nicely as a full piece. This record definitely sounds like an Animal Collective record. I think Animal Collective fans will be psyched.

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http://www.dominorecordco.com/artist...al-collective/

Centipede Hz is the tenth full length Animal Collective album following the widely celebrated Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009) and also the first since Strawberry Jam (2007) to feature all four original band members: Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist and Deakin. As the album's opening bars of drum crashes and radio interference on 'Moonjock' immediately make clear, having returned as a four piece, Animal Collective have made their most widescreen and fully realized music to date. Once touring for Merriweather Post Pavilion was concluded at the end of 2009, Animal Collective released their visual album Oddsac on DVD. The film was also screened internationally at theatres and film festivals. The band created Transverse Temporal Gyrus, an installation for the Guggenheim Museum in New York City and subsequently released a 12" single of the performance and launched a website to distribute music from the event. The period between Merriweather Post Pavilion and Centipede Hz also saw the release of two solo albums: Avey Tare's Down There (2010) and Panda Bear's Tomboy (2011). Regrouping as a four piece with original member Deakin once more in the band, Animal Collective reconvened in their native Baltimore in January-March 2011 to write material for Centipede Hz with a further session later in the year. Rather than swapping ideas over the internet and file-sharing Animal Collective were, for the first time in many years, exchanging ideas in the same room by playing live instruments. As a result Panda Bear returned to playing a sit-down drum kit for the first time since Here Comes The Indian (2003) and Geologist began playing live keyboards again. Along with using some of the samplers and sequencers with which they had previously been writing, the sound of Centipede Hz draws on the dynamics and energy of Animal Collective playing together as a band. The return of Deakin is at its most marked in 'Wide Eyed', a song that he wrote, featuring his first ever lead-vocal performance and whose title captures the mood of Centipede Hz perfectly. Part of the inspiration for Centipede Hz included the band's memories of growing up listening to station announcements and commercials on the radio and imagining the after life of radio signals from the past, forgotten transmissions that are now lost in space and broadcasting music from other planets for other life forms. This is reflected in the sound of Centipede Hz, which features the white noise of radio interference and buried frequencies overlaid with the band's peerless melodic sensibilities and compositional methods. The result is a panoramic set of songs that shimmer with the confidence and wonder of Animal Collective's unique inner logic and the luminous warmth of their sound world. Centipede Hz line-up & recording information Animal Collective: Avey Tare (vocals, synthesizers, piano, guitar, sampler, sequencer, percussion); Panda Bear (vocals, drums, sampler, percussion); Deakin (vocals, baritone guitar, sampler, percussion); Geologist (sampler, synthesizers, piano, percussion) with: Dave Scher (Beachwood Sparks, All Night Radio) lap steel guitar on 'Today's Supernatural', 'New Town Burnout', 'Pulleys', and 'Gotham', and melodica on 'Rosie Oh' & Riverside Middle School Choir, which sings on 'Father Time' and 'New Town Burnout'. Centipede Hz was co-produced by Animal Collective and Ben H. Allen III and recorded at Sonic Ranch studios in Tornillo TX (outside of El Paso) in Jan-Feb 2012 by Ben H. Allen III and mixed at Maze Studios in Atlanta, GA by Ben H. Allen III

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how do you feel about 16:9 music?

[q_q]

Day one. Fuck yeah.

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Tour dates!

Tue 18th Sep 2012 Paramount Theatre Seattle, WA United States Wed 19th Sep 2012 Malkin Bowl Vancouver, BC Canada Thu 20th Sep 2012 Crystal Ballroom Portland, OR United States Fri 21st Sep 2012 Fox Theatre Oakland, CA United States Sun 23rd Sep 2012 Hollywood Bowl Hollywood, CA United States Tue 25th Sep 2012 House Of Blues Las Vegas, NV United States Thu 27th Sep 2012 House Of Blues Dallas, TX United States Fri 28th Sep 2012 The Backyard at Bee Cave Austin, TX United States Sat 29th Sep 2012 House Of Blues New Orleans, LA United States Sun 30th Sep 2012 Tabernacle Atlanta, GA United States Tue 2nd Oct 2012 Merriweather Post Pavilion Columbia, MD United States Wed 3rd Oct 2012 Mann Centre for Performing Arts Philadelphia, PA United States Fri 5th Oct 2012 Williamsburg Park Brooklyn, NY United States Thu 1st Nov 2012 Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn Utrecht, Netherlands Fri 2nd Nov 2012 Pitchfork Festival Paris, France Sat 3rd Nov 2012 La Laiterie Strasbourg, France Sun 4th Nov 2012 Roundhouse London, United Kingdom Tue 6th Nov 2012 Vicar Street Dublin, Ireland Wed 7th Nov 2012 Glasgow ABC1 Glasgow, United Kingdom Thu 8th Nov 2012 The Warehouse Project Manchester, United Kingdom Fri 9th Nov 2012 Le Grand Mix Tourcoing, France Sat 10th Nov 2012 Trix Club Antwerp, Belgium Mon 12th Nov 2012 Copenhagen Film Festival Copenhagen, Denmark Tue 13th Nov 2012 Pustervik Göteborg, Sweden Wed 14th Nov 2012 Debaser Medis Stockholm, Sweden Thu 15th Nov 2012 Sentrum Scene Oslo, Norway Fri 16th Nov 2012 Mejeriet Lund, Sweden Sat 17th Nov 2012 Rolling Stone Weekender Weissenhauser, Germany Sun 18th Nov 2012 Astra Kulturhaus Berlin, Germany Mon 19th Nov 2012 Les Docks Lausanne, Switzerland Tue 20th Nov 2012 X-tra Zürich, Switzerland

I'll see you guys in Brookyln.

[Bread]

The closest show is Brooklyn? Well I guess I'm spending that weekend in NYC. The new album sounds so good, if it's like Honeycomb or Fall Be Kind I'm going to be psyched.

[arab]

NOLA BABYYYYY

[relaxor]

Whoa they're playing at the FOX in Oakland, that's great. That place just reopened after decades of emptiness.

[Expendable.]

Pre-sale tickets up! I got 'em for Brooklyn.

[FloppyDelux]

Pre-sale tickets up! I got 'em for Brooklyn.

sweet, i should get mine for Seattle

[Expendable.]

http://www.nme.com/news/animal-collective/64345

Deakin:

I remember saying, 'This is going to be harder for people to swallow.' There's no doubt about it: people are going to react to this….There was an instant melodic gratification to Merriweather and I think we intentionally made a record this time that is a lot more…um… [laughs] We took a left turn at weird town. He added: "From the first note of Merriweather you’re like, 'Oh my God, I just wanna dance' or 'My heart's exploding.' This is more like, 'This is amazing but I'm confused and I don't quite know what's going on and I think I need to listen to it again and maybe I should turn it off.'"

[Conciliator]

Cool. I like poppy/melodic Animal Collective. Not so big on the really abrasive/hazy shit. I'll check it out regardless though.

[cutmeamango]

I love weird Animal Collective, but I wonder how weird it will be. Hopefully not in the "is this even music?" camp.

[gdt]

Hmm, that's a little scary. I really love the last few releases, which were certainly more melodic.

I do looooooooooooooove Honeycomb/Gotham, but I guess this album won't be like that...

It'll probably be a grower.

[Zilch]

8 of the songs on the album have been on their setlists for more than a year and they all sound like Animal Collective songs... I mean, they have no doubt changed them up in the studio but it's not like you're about to hear freeform noise-rock or something. I personally like that quote as their last few albums have been heading towards some sort of "normalcy".

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Cover:

[Linius]

Despite my love for AC, this album art is horrible imo :P

Also, somebody claims to have a leak but I can't find any other source on the web that can confirm the existence of this leak. Guess it's a troll right?

[Croc]

I'm kinda psyched for hearing Deakin lead vocals. Didn't he say like 3 years ago that he was working on a solo album? I wonder if that's ever going to come out.

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[I Push Fat Kids]

Scary Animal Collective is the best. Awful album cover affirms this will be a wonderful record.

[Nappuccino]

I really really like that they're returning to live instruments. Samplers are ok, but always sound like samplers to my ear. Live instruments always bring that extra factor that I really like.

[Linius]

Is this a single? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVeWwXdjk4o EDIT: It's fake.

Yep, just found out that there are some AC files moving round the internet that are in fact songs from Alvin Band.

[Expendable.]

First Single - Today's Supernatural

!!!!

[gdt]

First Single - Today's Supernatural !!!!

I like it!

[Lafiel]

First Single - Today's Supernatural !!!!

On my first listen - I enjoy it a lot. I've missed this band so much.<3

Can't believe it's been so long since their last LP.

[SystemShock2]

Just listened to Today's Supernatural. Pretty damn good. Not the biggest fan of the middle section but overall it's pretty catchy. A lot of the sound effects sound like they're off Strawberry Jam and just the feel and structure kinda do too in my opinion. Strawberry jam's my favorite of their's too so i'm pretty happy.

[Kusagari]

First Single - Today's Supernatural !!!!

Sounds great.

[Steamlord]

Awesome. Can't wait for the album.