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Animal Collective
Release new single + video “Strung with Everything”
Announce November UK + Europe tour dates
New album Time Skiffs out February 4th on Domino
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 the “Strung with Everything” video we wanted to continue with this process to match the style of the band’s live shows in a music video.” Animal Collective’s new album Time Skiffs, which also features the previously released tracks “Prester John” and “Walker,” is due out February 4
Today the band announces a UK and European tour set for November of this year, following their spring US tour. They will also perform at Madrid’s Mad Cool Festival on July 9. The UK/EU dates will be available for pre-sale this Thursday, January 20 and on general sale this Friday, January 21. All dates are below.
Watch Animal Collective perform two unreleased Time Skiffs tracks, “Car Keys” and “Dragon Slayer,” plus Merriweather Post Pavilion favorite “In the Flowers” at Pitchfork Music Festival 2021 HERE.
The band also recently released a recording of a site-specific performance taken from the Music Box Village in New Orleans in March 2018. The Music Box Village is created and built by New Orleans Airlift, an artist-driven non-profit organization, as one of a range of large-scale community art projects. Proceeds from this release on Bandcamp are going to the three additional musicians involved in the concert – Helen Gillet, Aurora Nealand, and Marion Tortorich. Watch the performance on YouTube and purchase the audio on Bandcamp.
“Strung with Everything”
Don’t peak it won’t last that long
or rarely
It’s really new everyday
You need that click and they wrote it wrong
Delivery
Our terrarium moaned
No sleeping in
There’s a natural clicking
That can be heard in the kinks
You need to forget the trouble maker
Dislike the silicone heads
Fresh sneakers in Babylon get dirty
But we’re digging that way
I cut my pace no more racing urges
How many days do we have?
I like some pressure and it likes pleasing
Some find their way in a hearse
The summer’s here and the time is crying
It spent all year in your head
I’ve got this world (I think)
I build a thing and it does
I do believe there’s a conscious in things
Don’t believe in the time
Just the inside of you
Feel it all collapse
I think that things will fall apart
The grass will find its shape again
The sun’s no better off lately
The sun’s no better off now
They’ll move west when the winter’s biting
Build hotels for their thirst
They’ll move east when the desert’s drying
I moved in
You checked out
We’ve got this heart
It speaks out a thing and we feel
The air sinks in
There’s a mist on the sea
There’s a clearing for rest
There’s a piece of glass
It went into your foot
The fire and bleeds and soaks us out
The grass can’t find the green again
The sun’s no better off lately
The sun’s no better off now
Let’s say tonight you and me
We’ll watch the sky fall into pieces
And for a moment imagine strings
Holding the trees from falling down
You know I would not be afraid
With your head against my shoulder
And even though all hearts are strange
We’re all Strung with Everything
Time Skiffs, the quartet’s first studio album in more than half a decade, feels like listening in on a conversation among four old friends, just as it felt during their inchoate early days or their Strawberry Jam heyday. These 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, same as they ever were. There are 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 past 20, still in search of what’s next.
Animal Collective Tour Dates
UK/EU
9th July – Madrid, ES – Mad Cool Fest
2nd November – Limerick, IE – Dolan’s
3rd November – Dublin, IE – National Concert Hall
6th November – Bristol, UK – SWX
7th November – Manchester, UK – Albert Hall
9th November – Glasgow, UK – Saint Luke’s
12th November – Tourcoing, FR – Le Grand Mix
15th November – Hamburg, DE – Übel & Gefährlich
16th November – Berlin, DE – Kesselhaus
17th November – Prague, CZ – MeetFactory
19th November – Vienna, AT – Arena
20th November – Munich, DE – Freiheiz
21st November – Fribourg, CH – Fri-Son
23rd November – Luxembourg, LU – Atelier
24th November – Paris, FR – Trabendo
27th November – Cologne, DE – Luxor
Time Skiffs will be available on CD, 2xLP, and digitally on Feb 4, 2022. A limited edition deluxe 2xLP on starburst ruby & black vinyl is available to pre-order via the Domino store HERE.
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