Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

Woo hooo! Won't be out until September though :unhappy:

Domino blurbs

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE SET TO RELEASE

STRAWBERRY JAM THIS SEPTEMBER

"With each new album it becomes clearer that Animal Collective will not stay still" - Pitchfork, Best New Music (9.0)

"Animal Collective are all about the sometimes blissful, often uncanny intermingling of song and space" - Spin

"Animal Collective specialize in shape-shifting songs that seem to wrench melodies out of the ether" - Rolling Stone

"Breathlessly giddy and shamelessly trippy" - Entertainment Weekly

Animal Collective

Initial work for Strawberry Jam started in September 2005 as Animal Collective prepared to tour Europe for the release of the band's 2005 album, Feels. The process immediately became a very intense and emotional one and they all agreed on a desire to preserve the rawness of the songs that was happening during the initial writing sessions. Animal Collective was very attached to these songs in a live setting and to preserve the live stage energy was a mission.

Though the melodies and lyrics for Strawberry Jam were written by Panda Bear and Avey Tare in various places such as Paris, New York, Lisbon and Baltimore, there was also three intense full-band writing sessions with Geologist and Deacon. These production sessions occurred in both Lisbon and in NYC. So, while the songs might seem to come from all over the map emotionally, it was important to match that geographical variation sonically.

Strawberry Jam was recorded in January of this year at The Wavelab in Tucson, Arizona with The Wizard Scott Colburn. The band drove 30 minutes each way, everyday, to and from their rented house. There was much Tecate drinking, barbecues, Javelina sightings and other desert oddities that might have influenced this record... like the day the desert was covered in glistening ice. The album was completed and mixed with the gracious help of Nicholas Vernhes at The Rare Book Room in Brooklyn, NY.

For the uninitiated, Animal Collective is a group of four best friends who grew up playing and recording music together in Baltimore County, Maryland. Why Animal? Cause it's the only word they could think of that made any remote connection to what they thought their sound was -- and of course, they love their fellow animals very much. Why Collective? The band has always wanted to be the ones who define who and what AC is. Two people? Four people? Why not? Don't be surprised if you come to see the band and its not what you thought it would be (and try not to get too upset).

Over the last few years Animal Collective has seen its fan base swell due to the amazing live shows and hard touring. They get bigger and stronger with each passing album, exploring new musical visions with creative force. The band eschews genres and labels and prefers to be inspired environmentally - an "anything can happen" sort of vibe, which they capture with amazing consistency.

AC continues onward after seven years and seven albums (six studio, one live) that combine a love of sonic freeform electronic-horror-gospel-hip-hop soul-pop-madness and brings it all together into something that is hopefully totally pleasing and at other moments completely scary and confusing. Most importantly they hope it's refreshing in this crazy, crazy world.

STRAWBERRY JAM will be released on Domino Recording Co. in September 2007 worldwide.

Tracklisting

1 Peacebone

2. Unsolved Mysteries

3. Chores

4. For Reverend Green

5. Fireworks

6. #1

7. Winter Wonder Land

8. Cuckoo Cuckoo

9. Derek

fuck yeah. september isn't so far off either!!!! usually bands announce albums next year. fuck yeah fuck yeah

i thnk they're gonna fuck with the listeners on this album. not let us get too comfortable.

i should post this youtube that someone posted in the main forum.

new trk cuckoo cuckoo maybe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnlMxPXoRoI

not sure about it myself

peace bone:

chores:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTIaiCk2R30&NR=1

not as good a recording

chores is great.

for reverend green:

you two are like lol and fred

lol

mosca

  mooncup said:

i thnk they're gonna fuck with the listeners on this album. not let us get too comfortable.

 

i should post this youtube that someone posted in the main forum.

 

new trk cuckoo cuckoo maybe:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnlMxPXoRoI

 

not sure about it myself

probably amongst the worst attempts at making music ive ever seen.

  tidbit said:

you two are like lol and fred

Except we have good taste jk

These vids are awesome Andy, thanks! Seems like they're getting more melodic with each album, which I love!

Peace Bone is great, can't wait to hear this stuff on the disc- will make the end of summer a little easier...

This live set has alot of the new stuff:

http://www.archive.org/details/acollective...ud.mc012.flac16

So if you're like me and have been listening to that lots... then you know more or less what's in store. Is very good, I am soooooo excited to hear studio versions of Fireworks and Peacebone :)

AWEOSMS THNAKS OFR TEH LISKN

I expected this to be out a lot later.

These guys are knob twiddlers

so the first three tracks of this leaked to the internet. here's the first two:

http://obscuresound.com/?p=1132

  taphead said:

so the first three tracks of this leaked to the internet. here's the first two:

 

http://obscuresound.com/?p=1132

ty, i effing love it!!

yeah you should seek out the other track thats out there, chores, its fucking amazing. im listening on headphones for the first time and im stoned as hell and this is so so so so so so great.

think i'll wait for the cd in september

hmm..i think these new songs sound better live

The whole thing leaked.

i dunno..it starts pretty cool with peacebone but falls asleep until winter wonder land, hardly noticed the songs in between, last 3 are fantastic and crazy and all.

  eugene said:

i dunno..it starts pretty cool with peacebone but falls asleep until winter wonder land, hardly noticed the songs in between, last 3 are fantastic and crazy and all.

Hm. I like the songs in between the most. For Reverend Green and Fireworks are great, and for me the last bit of the album was the weakest.

i'm waiting for the cd. ac albums always have a slump it seems

well i didn't wait for the cd as i'm seeing them live before the album drops. so i wanna know the tracks before i see them plus i'll buy the album at the gig if possible.

so gonna listen on repeat today. its certainly different. peacebone seems an odd single too.

i like animal collective.

after a few listens i have decided that the album really picks up at around rev green, fireworks, #1.

sure peacebone is good, chores is good but theres something special about fireworks and #1. those are easily my favourite tracks on the album. winterwonderland starts out badly but it has a catchy chorus which saves it. cuckoo cuckoo is like the worst panic attack i've ever had. derek is a strange ending ("is that the end?" i'm always left feeling it isn't, or shouldn't be).

overall its a good record with pretty much all strong songs and kinda raw as they intended.

seeing them on the 24th i think. oh yeah!!!