Animal Collective will release their new studio album Isn’t It Now?September 29 on Domino. The quartet of Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Deakin, and Geologist recorded Isn’t It Now? with the Grammy-winning producer Russell Elevado (D’Angelo, The Roots, Kamasi Washington), who co-produced and mixed the album. Animal Collective’s structure has long been that of a playground, an open space for exercising and indulging new notions and influences, for saying “Why...
Today Animal Collective release new single “Defeat.” Recorded with Grammy-winning producer Russell Elevado (D’Angelo, Kamasi Washington, The Roots), the 22-minute epic is an unapologetic ode to perseverance and hope, to “staying grounded like the spruce” when the very land seems to shift beneath us. “What have we become?”Avey Tare sings in an irrepressible hook, shouting the question in a way that exclaims we might still become something more. The...
Today Animal Collective share their latest single “Strung with Everything” via a video directed by Abby Portner. “Recently for Animal Collective’s live shows I have been designing and animating all of the video content out of cut paper,” says Portner. “I have been editing together symbols and colored static silhouettes that match the music's feeling and rhythm. The videos are like pictographs that tell a story organically and simply. For...
Animal Collective release their new single “Walker” today via a music video directed by Abby and Dave Portner. “Mostly “Walker” is a tribute to Scott Walker who passed away around the time I began writing the song,” Noah Lennox said in an interview with Zane Lowe. “Scott’s music has meant a lot to me and he’ll always be a big inspiration. But there’s also a kind of exhaustion and resignation...
Today Animal Collective announce their new albumTime Skiffs, due out February 4thon Domino. Time Skiffs is the band’s full-length follow-up to 2016’s Painting With and features nine new tracks, recorded by Avey Tare, Deakin, Geologist, and Panda Bear across the course of 2020 and mixed by Marta Salogni. Today they share the record’s first single “Prester John,” a track created by weaving together two songs, one written by...
Today marks the release of Crestone, the debut feature written and directed by Marnie Ellen Hertzler in partnership with Memory, and is out now on digital platforms. Hertzler enlisted the pioneering experimental act Animal Collective to compose the film’s score, a first for the band, which is also out digitally today. Crestone (Original Score) will also be available physically on April 23, preorder it HERE.
Tangerine Reef is a full-length audiovisual album by Animal Collective (Avey Tare, Deakin and Geologist), in collaboration with Coral Morphologic, to commemorate the 2018 International Year of the Reef. Tangerine Reef is a visual tone poem consisting of time-lapse and slow pans across surreal aquascapes of naturally fluorescent coral and cameos by alien-like reef creatures (note: no CGI or artificial enhancement was used in this film). Tangerine Reef is...
Animal Collective is pleased to announce the release of their eleventh full-length album, Painting With. The album will be out globally on February 19 via Domino. Today, the band share first single ‘FloriDada’.
For fifteen years Animal Collective has been rewriting the musical map, their line-up and aesthetic shifting with each astonishing release as they continue their pursuit of a new psychedelia. Their...
