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Animal Collective Working on Film, New Music

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:00:00 +0000

Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive , Movies Due out in early 2010, the next full-length release by Animal Collective will feature abstract, freeform musical compositions that even multi-instrumentalist band member Dave Portner, aka Avey Tare, hesitates to label "songs." In other words, it will be just like any other Animal Collective album, except this time there will be a film attached. Portner tells Spinner the Baltimore-born, New York City-based band will spend the first half of next year finishing and promoting a film it made in collaboration with director and visual artist Danny Perez. While fans shouldn't expect any kind of linear plot or traditional narrative structure -- and really, what fans of the sonically adventurous art-rock quartet would expect such things? -- Portner insists the still-untitled film holds together as a coherent piece of work. "It's definitely a collection of short visual pieces, or short films, that interact with each other, and that make this ...

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Animal Collective Mark End of 'Merriweather' Era With New EP

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:30:00 +0000

Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive With the release of its new EP, 'Fall Be Kind,' Animal Collective is clearing the vaults of material recorded during sessions for 'Merriweather Post Pavilion,' one of the most critically fawned-over albums of 2009. In doing so, multi-instrumentalist Dave Portner, aka Avey Tare, says the New York City-via-Baltimore band is closing the book on a "really positive" chapter in its career. "I think that's why we wanted to put it out at the end of the year," Portner tells Spinner of 'Fall Be Kind,' out now digitally and available next month on CD and vinyl. "It feels like [the songs] all kind of fit together with the touring and the things we've been doing for the last couple of years. It definitely feels like the end of this era."

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Listen to new Animal Collective

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:18:20 +0000

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