Animal Collective

[miaedu]

One of my favorite releases of the years STILL remains Merriweather Post Pavillion. Amazing live show too.

"Watch the new video for Animal Collective’s “In the Flowers”, the stunning, sublime opener to Merriweather Post Pavilion. The incongruent visual montages, going from a lo-fi retrospective (with one cool, hard-ass lookin’ dude), to seas of swirling flowers, to explosions of light, color, and ballet, may be a bit overwhelming at times. Nevertheless, it seems like Animal Collective hemorrhages these beautiful overtures at will."

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYEAflCO4Eo[/ame]

[jimm04]

Animal Collective rocks !!

[miaedu]

Animal Collective's Fall Be Kind EP is due out November 23 digitally and December 15 physically via Domino. It opens with "Graze", which can be heard below.

"Graze" is kind of two songs in one. It starts out as a mellow, diffuse vocal showcase. Then, about two-thirds of the way in, a perversely sped-up Renaissance Faire flute loop kicks in, and the track turns into a disarmingly weird hobbit dance jam

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETTUnx3pabY[/ame]

[metalmickey]

amazing band- i just got into them with My Girls

[miaedu]

amazing band- i just got into them with My Girls

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

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[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6KPDWNAPBU[/ame]

[panopticonpeter]

FICKLE CYCLE!

[miaedu]

FICKLE CYCLE!

were you trying to post this?

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3faUZn7qb8[/ame]

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

[miaedu]

Characteristically Freaky New Animal Collective Video: "Brother Sport"

It's hard to tell what, exactly, is going on in director Jack Kubizne's video for Animal Collective's "Brother Sport". At certain points, the hallucinatory clip is the story of two modern-primitive kids and a dog, who tear around a trailer park and stage a fingerpainting rave in a backwoods hut. At other points, it's a particularly acid-fried take on vintage 1970s Saturday morning cartoons. And for one particularly queasy stretch, it's a montage of multicolored black-lit eggs falling from the sky.

In other words, it's an Animal Collective video, and you're going to stop whatever you're doing and watch it right now.

http://www.myanimalhome.net/

[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGQjyGT1-mc[/ame]

[miaedu]

A Visual Album by Danny Perez and Animal Collective

World Premiere: Sundance Film Festival.

Screenings:

March 2
New York City NY, USA
Visual Arts Theatre
With special guests director Danny Perez and members of Animal Collective.
$15. 6:30pm & 8:30pm
SOLD OUT, SECOND NIGHT ADDED.

March 3
New York City NY, USA
Visual Arts Theatre
With special guests director Danny Perez and members of Animal Collective.
$15. Get tickets: 6:30pm & 8:30pm.

March 17
Chicago IL, USA
Music Box Theatre
With special guests director Danny Perez and members of Animal Collective.
$15. Get tickets: 7pm, 9pm.

Many more cities announced soon.
Follow the movie on Twitter or Facebook for screening tour announcements.


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H48VtETngA[/ame]

http://www.oddsac.com/

[miaedu]

On March 4, mind-squeezing art-rock group Animal Collective and their visual guru Danny Perez will premiere a new piece called Transverse Temporal Gyrus at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. According to a press release, the three-hour exhibition will "transform the museum into a kinetic, psychedelic environment" that will include new Animal Collective music, projections, costumes, and props. Sounds like the closest you'll ever get to being inside Animal Collective's brain.

In an explanatory statement, AC wrote, "We wanted to create an environment where people could take some time to listen to other kinds of sounds and get away from those familiar sounds of the city. Keeping in mind the birds of the jungle, we've created an array of sounds with Animal Collective's music that is seemingly random...or is it?" OR IS IT?!


http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/a...ve-danny-perez

[hungrybrownbear]

one word:
hipsterhipsterhipsterhipster

hehe.

[miaedu]

A Visual Album by Danny Perez and Animal Collective

World Premiere: Sundance Film Festival.

Screenings:

March 2
New York City NY, USA
Visual Arts Theatre
With special guests director Danny Perez and members of Animal Collective.
$15. 6:30pm & 8:30pm
SOLD OUT, SECOND NIGHT ADDED.

March 3
New York City NY, USA
Visual Arts Theatre
With special guests director Danny Perez and members of Animal Collective.
$15. Get tickets: 6:30pm & 8:30pm.

March 17
Chicago IL, USA
Music Box Theatre
With special guests director Danny Perez and members of Animal Collective.
$15. Get tickets: 7pm, 9pm.

Many more cities announced soon.
Follow the movie on Twitter or Facebook for screening tour announcements.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H48VtETngA

http://www.oddsac.com/

April 19
Amherst MA, USA
Hampshire College
With special guests director Danny Perez and members of Animal Collective.
$15, 9:15pm & 11:15pm. Tickets are ONLY available to 5-College students with a valid Hampshire, Smith, Amherst, Mt. Holyoke or UMASS ID. Tickets will be on sale Saturday, April 10 in Hampshire College's Harold F. Johnson Library from 1:00pm - 5:00 pm, and April 12 - April 16 in the CLA Office (attached to the Dakin House) from 9:00am - 4:00pm. For more info email roarbearman@gmail.com

April 20
Boston MA, USA
Brattle Theatre
With special guests director Danny Perez and members of Animal Collective.
$15. 8:30pm & 10:30pm SOLD OUT. Midnight show added, get tickets.

April 21
Silver Spring MD, USA
AFI Silver Theatre
With special guests director Danny Perez and members of Animal Collective.
$15. Get tickets: 8pm & 10pm.

April 23
Chapel Hill NC, USA
Varsity Theatre
With special guests director Danny Perez and members of Animal Collective.
$15. Get tickets: 7pm & 9pm.

April 25
Miami FL, USA
Grand Central
With special guests director Danny Perez and members of Animal Collective. Presented in association with Sweat Records.
$15, all ages. Get tickets: 8pm

April 26
Atlanta GA, USA
Plaza Theatre
With special guests director Danny Perez and members of Animal Collective. After-party at the Highland Ballroom with special guest DJs.
$15. Get tickets: 7pm & 9pm.

May 13
London, UK
ICA London
UK Premiere, with special guests director Danny Perez and members of Animal Collective. ICA Bar event after the screenings with special guest DJ sets.
6:30pm, 8:30pm, 10:30pm, book now.

Many more North American and European cities announced soon, DVD/iTunes release this summer.

[sabot3ur]

animal collective is big in my warm weather mix currently so good.

[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhtIIyvivSw[/ame]

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Animal Collective Judge YouTube Videos for Guggenheim Museum

This past friday morning the Guggenheim announced the jury for YouTube Play, an open call for YouTube clips to be showcased in a fall exhibition. And it includes: Laurie Anderson, Animal Collective, Darren Aronofsky, Douglas Gordon, Ryan McGinley, Marilyn Minter, Takashi Murakami, Shirin Neshat, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Stefan Sagmeister, and Guggenheim chief curator Nancy Spector. Jerry Saltz already approves of YouTube in the Guggenheim; does the pedigree of the judges lend the contest some more credibility?

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/p...r-youtube-play

[miaedu]

Animal Collective play a few U.S. dates in April, leading up to their appearance at Coachella.

The band will play a new set at these shows, with sometime member Deakin rejoining the band to make them a quartet once again.

Dates below:

04-11 Arcata, CA - Kate Buchanan Room

04-12 Redway, CA - Mateel Community Center

04-13 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall

04-14 Big Sur, CA - Henry Miller Memorial Library

04-16 Indio, CA - Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival

[miaedu]

"Recently, Animal Collective's "My Girls" soundtracked the very first scene of the godawful American MTV version of the British teens-fucking soap opera "Skins". This is not the sort of thing a band needs on its resume. But in more positive Animal Collective news, they have now announced a European tour following a short US tour ending at Coachella."

In April they headline their own ATP weekend in England.

Dates below.

05-14 Minehead, England - All Tomorrows Parties
05-16 Eastbourne, England - Winter Gardens
05-17 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
05-18 Brussels, Belgium - Les Nuit
05-19 Cologne, Germany - Electron
05-20 Berlin, Germany - Melt Wee
05-21 Warsaw, Poland - Stodola
05-22 Krakow, Poland - TBA
05-23 Vienna, Austria - Arena Vienna
05-24 Zagreb, Croatia - Pogon Jedinstvo
05-28 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound Festival

http://www.atpfestival.com/events/at...collective.php

[miaedu]

Coachella 2011: Animal Collective weirds out the teletransported aliens from Mars -- and Burning Man scribe Brian Doherty

At Animal Collective's set Saturday night, a man stood next to me in a vest, tie and sports coat, not the usual Coachella get-up. He turned to me with a question.

"If we teletransported someone from 50 years ago to this moment now, would that person think we've gone insane, based on this show?"

We both agreed: Yes.

For the last 20 minutes, Animal Collective had been assailing the crowd with video footage from fellow experimental noisemakers Black Dice. Three giant cubes hovered over the band, slaves to a sequence of color-saturated imagery that veered from pixels soaked in LSD to nature imagery soaked in LSD to some rippling coil shape that might've been your colon on LSD. The two screens on either side of the band projected the same. It was basically meant to melt your mind.


Musically, the mission was the same. Animal Collective does have actual songs with beginnings, middles and ends, but you wouldn't have known it from Saturday night. Verse-chorus-verse sticklers were out of luck. Then again, you don't see Animal Collective with the hope that it'll cover a Mumford and Sons song.

Sometimes a song would start, only to transport into the next by way of burbling passage, as if being ferried from one stalagmited cave to another.

"Didn't these guys used to do stuff with their voices that was, um, pretty?"

It was the businessman with another good question. His name, by the way, is Brian Doherty, a journalist who wrote "This Is Burning Man," a definitive guide to Coachella's wayward Nevada sister, an anarchic festival that makes Coachella look like something conceived by Barbara Bush. He also writes essays on politics as the senior editor at Reason magazine.

Doherty knows his festivals, and has been to Coachella several times since its start. For fun, he works on the Tesla coil at the festival every year, operated by his friend Syd Klinge. "Last night, we blew up a capacitator by accident," Doherty said. "Literally, it exploded."

Doherty, Klinge and the rest of the Coil crew stay in an offsite area where all the crew members for the various contraptions stay, partying with each other late into the night.

Occasionally, Animal Collective did burst into the kind of vocal harmonies that earned it comparisons to the Beach Boys, if the Wilsons had been reared by a pack of wolves. After the video screen barfed up more supervivid imagery cut with the words "IRRESISTIBLE POWER," the group led into the most clear-cut song of the night. "Summertime Clothes," a sweat-covered tale of wandering New York -- probably on drugs. The marbled, bright synth layers hit the audience like glare on a windshield; the harmonies shadowy and sunlit at the same time.

Earlier in the day, I had been bemoaning, though only to myself, the lack of weirdos at this year's Coachella, the kind of performers who, once they arrive and claim their contorted stake on reality, you wonder how you didn't see it before. Call it the Die Antwoord effect.

"We came to bring the weird a little bit," Avey Tare said at one point in the set. "And to have fun." Done and done, Animal Collective. If you can entertain and weird out the guy who knows Burning Man inside and out, you've successfully planted your freak flag.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/musi...ollective.html

[miaedu]

Here is a short video of "Transverse Temporal Gyrus", a collaboration between Animal Collective and Danny Perez at the Guggenheim last year. Filmed by Bobby Boothe, Edited by Danny Perez, and featuring some unreleased AC music made specifically for the event that was played through a 36 channel speaker system set up around the ramp.

Animal Collective "Transverse Temporal Gyrus"

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT7vEENXfPk[/ame]

[miaedu]

Merry pranksters Animal Collective are about to start work on their follow-up to 2009's massively acclaimed Merriweather Post Pavilion. The band has revealed it will hit the studio to record its next effort in roughly one week. In the meantime, they've posted a video that collapses the entirety of their entire recording session for 2007's Strawberry Jam into nine hypnotic minutes.

Animal Collective's experimental urges have taken the group some magnificent places musically, but you don't have to be a philistine to concede that sometimes their need to innovate can get ahead of them. Titled "Strawberry Time Lapse," this clip is brilliant in theory: "[Strawberry Jam engineer] Scott Colburn had a great idea when we were recording" the album, the band explains. "He set up a video camera to take short clips of footage once a minute for the whole time we were in the studio. This is the unedited result." A time-lapsed studio document! Not bad, right?

In practice, however, the results are a bunch of disjointed Strawberry Jam snippets that sound like a CD player on fast forward set to choppy, dimly lit footage of the Animal Collective dudes bashing away on drums, twiddling with knobs, or gathering around a mixing board. Curious musos might be able to discern a few technical details they can use in their own setups, and bored stoners will probably be able to space out to it, but it doesn't exactly reward focused, workaday viewing — although the endearingly goofy moments when band members look directly at the camera are definite highlights. This is how your "Peacebone" sausage is made.

http://www.spin.com/articles/animal-...ch-you-thought

Watch the video here:

http://vimeo.com/34643803

[sabot3ur]

JUST A SEC MORE IN MAH BEEEEEEDDD!

I'm so excited for the new album. they played some tracks off it at their show at Merriweather which I went to in July, everything was grand but I can't remember what they sounded like. ahh that show was perfect, brothersport was the peak.

[grilledcheese1]

I was hoping they'd be at Coachella again this year but I'm kind of glad they're not as I wouldn't have the funds to see them anyways.

[miaedu]

Animal Collective will release a new single on June 26 via Domino. "Honeycomb" and "Gotham" will be released on a 7".

Animal Collective - Honeycomb

[miaedu]

On Animal Collective's website, there's the below video that announces that the band's follow-up to 2009's Merriweather Post Pavilion is called Centipede Hz and will be out September 4th in the U.S. and September 3rd in the UK through Domino. The video also offers a list of words and phrases that may or may not make up the tracklist on the album.

Centipede Hz:

01 Moonjock
02 Today's Supernatural
03 Rosie Oh
04 Applesauce
05 Wide Eyed
06 Father Time
07 New Town Burnout
08 Monkey Riches
09 Mercury Man
10 Pulleys
11 Amanita

Animal Collective - Centipede Hz

[miaedu]

Last month month, Animal Collective offered the inaugural DJ set for British venue/live music site Boiler Room's new morning program, "Breakfast Show". Now, a two-hour video documenting Deakin, Geologist, and Avey Tare's set is available to watch, below.

Animal Collective Dj set at the Boiler Room

[miaedu]

Animal Collective - "Applesauce"

[miaedu]

Animal Collective's postponed spring tour with Dan Deacon has now been rescheduled. (The band had originally pushed the dates back to due Avey Tare's case of strep throat.)

As noted on Facebook, tickets to the previously scheduled shows will be honored at these new dates. Refunds are also available at point of purchase.

New confirmed dates:

05-22 Nimes, France - Paloma
05-23 Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound
05-25 London, United Kingdom - Field Day
05-27 Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Holland Melkweg
05-28 Brussels, Belgium - AB
05-29 Paris, France - Trianon
06-07-09 New York, NY - Governors Ball
06-10-12 Washington, DC - 930 Club
06-13-16 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
07-02 Helsinki, Finland - The Circus
07-04 Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival
07-06 Gdynia, Poland - Open’er Festival
07-09 Toronto, Ontario - Danforth Music Hall *
07-10 Ottawa, Ontario - Ottawa Blues Fest
07-11-13 Albany, NY - Camp Bisco
07-12-14 Louisville, KY - Forcastle
07-15 Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Hall *
07-16 Cleveland, OH - House of Blues *
07-18 Covington, KY - The Madison Theater
07-19 Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works
09-08 Salt Lake City, UT - Depot *
09-09 Denver, CO - Ogden *
09-11 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
10-16 Madison, WI - Orpheum *
10-17 Chicago, IL - Riviera *
10-24 Kansas City, MO - Midland Theater
10-25 St. Louis, MO - The Pageant

* with Dan Deacon