Baltimore‘s trippy 4-piece ANIMAL COLLECTIVE (active since
2003 / 11 studio LPs) released their most recent new music with
album Isn’t It Now? two years ago.
They also kept busy, inbetween albums, writing
movie soundtracks and working with other artists.
Today, they dropped a standalone single, called LOVE ON THE BIG SCREEN.
It will be released on a limited-edition 7″ on August 1 with B-side song ‘Buddies
On The Blackboard’. You can pre-order it here.
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
20 October 2024
Singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist (and co-founder of electro act Animal Collective) Noah Benjamin Lennox (46), artistically known asPANDA BEAR announced the birth of his first album in 6 years, his 7th overall. It’s named Sinister Grift and will land next year, on 28th February. It’s co-produced with Animal Collective bandmate Josh “Deakin” Dibb. More info here.
Lead single DEFENSE is a slo-mo stomper
with an immediate effect on your feet/head.
Baltimore‘s trippy 4-piece ANIMAL COLLECTIVE (active since 2003 / 11 studio LPs)
released their most recent longplayer with Time Skiffs in February last year.
They kept busy writing movie scores, working with other artists,
an a remastered reissue of their debut album Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit
They’ve Vanished that featured some previously unreleased material.
And now they come up with a new piece named DEFEAT
A 22-minute ambient symphony, bringing sound-explorer Brian Eno to mind. It’ll be released on 12″.
Baltimore’s trippy 4-piece ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
(active since 2003 / 11 studio LPs) had their most
recent album Time Skiffs in February last year.
They just shared their cover ofFleetwood Mac‘s 1977
classicDREAMS from their mega-blockbuster LP Rumours.
Oh yeah, I love AC’s experimental, spacey approach à la Oklahoma‘s
crackbrains The Flaming Lips but nobody can top the original with that
warm and sensual voice of the wonderful celeb Stevie Nicks.
Band: ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Who: Trippy indie act from Baltimore, Maryland Active: Since 2003 / 11 studio LPs (including new one)
New album: TIME SKIFFS Released: 4th February 2022 – more info here
(Press photo via website AC)
Info: “Time Skiffs’ nine songs are love letters, distress signals, en plein air observations, and relaxation hymns, the collected transmissions of four people who have grown into relationships and parenthood and adult worry. But they are rendered with Animal Collective’s singular sense of exploratory wonder. Harmonies so rich you want to skydive through their shared air, textures so fascinating you want to decode their sorcery, rhythms so intricate you want to untangle their sources. Here is Animal Collective’s past two decades, still in search of what’s next.”
NME says: “After a few wobbly releases (and one that was literally unlistenable), the beloved Baltimore band have found their footing again… ‘Time Skiffs’ is a gorgeous, exploratory album, containing some of the greatest creations this curious lot have turned in for years.” Score: 4/5.
Turn Up The Volume: Their both frisky and laid-back tunes
and their Beach Boys harmonies make me long for a lazy
corona-free summer.
Band: ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Who: Trippy electro-pop act from Baltimore, Maryland Active: Since 2003 / 11 studio LPs (including new one)
New album: TIME SKIFFS Out: 4th February 2022 – more info here
(Artwork LP)
“Time Skiffs’ nine songs are love letters, distress signals, en plein air observations, and relaxation hymns, the collected transmissions of four people who have grown into relationships and parenthood and adult worry. But they are rendered with Animal Collective’s singular sense of exploratory wonder. Harmonies so rich you want to skydive through their shared air, textures so fascinating you want to decode their sorcery, rhythms so intricate you want to untangle their sources. Here is Animal Collective’s past two decades, still in search of what’s next.”
New York’s sound explorers ANIMAL COLLECTIVE‘s members Avey Tare and Geologist
have just shared an exceptional piece of work. A mind-boggling 24-minute extravaganza called SUMMER BLAZE, presented as the sequel to their 2015 New Psycho Actives Vol.1.
It’s a multifaceted, baffling and remarkable odyssey starting with early psychedelic Pink Floyd folk like sequences before diving into a variety of arty electronic escapades that transfer you to an astonishing sonic galaxy where you’ll lose any sense of reality. Yes indeed, a truly spectacular trip, a truly startling experience, a truly singular sensation!
Sit down, relax, put on your headphones and let this
transcendental symphony infiltrate your fantasy world…
Last week, while DJing in San Francisco, Baltimore’s pop sound wizards ANIMAL COLLECTIVE played a song of their own that nobody recognized. Yesterday the band confirmed that it actually was a new track, titled KINDA BONKERS and part of a new
4-song EP (out this Friday, 17 February) including two other new ones and a cover of Martha & The Vandellas’ Motown oldie ‘Jimmy Mack’, all recorded during the sessions of their last year’s sparkling album Painting With. Here’s the lyric video for Kinda Bonkers…
