{"id":9888,"date":"2015-12-08T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T14:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/?p=9888"},"modified":"2015-12-13T14:49:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T17:49:39","slug":"daily-visual-30-11-15-animal-collective-unveil-painting-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/daily-visual-30-11-15-animal-collective-unveil-painting-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Visual 30.11.15: Animal Collective Unveil Painting With"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Animal<\/a><\/p>\n

Today Animal Collective announced Painting With<\/em><\/a>, their\u00a0new\u00a0album which is set to arrive\u00a0on 19 February. Painting With<\/em> will be the group’s\u00a0tenth studio release, and their fourteenth album in total including their three live records and the ODDSAC<\/em> visual project. It will come as the follow-up to\u00a0Centipede Hz<\/em>, the group’s previous record, which was released\u00a0in 2012. The tracklist reads:<\/p>\n

1. FloriDada
\n2. Hocus Pocus
\n3. Vertical
\n4. Lying In The Grass
\n5. The Burglars
\n6. Natural Selection
\n7. Bagels In Kiev
\n8. On Delay
\n9. Spilling Guts
\n10. Summing The Wretch
\n11. Golden Gal
\n12. Recycling<\/p>\n

For a group whose music sounds so organic and of the moment, Animal Collective have always offered detailed depictions of their creative processes, which have variously found them developing new material on tour<\/a>;\u00a0working separately\u00a0and sharing demos via email, as became their practise following Panda Bear’s move to Lisbon in 2004<\/a>;\u00a0carefully selecting recording locations and pieces of kit<\/a>;\u00a0and returning to their hometown of Baltimore for an extended writing session, as they did for Centipede Hz<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0That album marked a return for Deakin, who for personal reasons sat out the extent of\u00a0Merriweather Post Pavilion<\/a><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deakin<\/a> will be absent again this time around.\u00a0The announcement made via Domino Records offers an outline of the new album’s identity and construction:<\/p>\n

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‘Dizzyingly upbeat and gloriously realized, the new album bounces and pops with an urgent, ecstatic energy, propelled by polyrhythmic beats and gurgling modular synth, with Noah Lennox and Dave Portner\u2019s vocals gleefully falling in and out of syncopation and off-kilter harmony.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Working as a trio, Portner (Avey Tare), Lennox (Panda Bear) and Brian Weitz (Geologist) began trading demos in early 2015, pursuing a goal of what Portner calls \u201creally short songs: no B.S, get in, get out material\u2026\u201d The three met in Asheville during that spring and began exploring the songs together. Recording took place in the legendary EastWest Studios in Hollywood, home to sessions by The Beach Boys and Marvin Gaye. The album features contributions from John Cale and Colin Stetson, and was engineered by Sonny DiPerri.<\/em><\/p>\n

The result:\u00a0Painting With. Warm and personal, kaleidoscopic and high definition, concerned with art (Cubism, Dadaism, and the distorted way those artists viewed the world) and the human experience, and the meeting of both – creating something elemental, joyous, and unmistakably Animal Collective.’<\/em><\/p>\n

Elsewhere, the group have cited their desire to make their new record\u00a0especially\u00a0‘punchy’, with Panda Bear stating<\/a>:<\/p>\n

‘There was this idea of wanting to do something with short songs, with a homogenous energy to the record. We talked a lot about the first Ramones record – not that we expected the music to sound like that, but we wanted to do something where the first song revs up the engine, and it kind of just cruises after that. We didn\u2019t want to throw in some ethereal moment. We wanted to do something that blasted away the whole time.’<\/em><\/p>\n

Painting With<\/em> will be available in\u00a0three different covers, each featuring a different Animal Collective contributor as painted by the artist and Gang Gang Dance member Brian DeGraw. A limited edition version of the record, exclusively available via the\u00a0Animal Collective<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Domino<\/a>\u00a0stores, will also boast\u00a0‘180 gram heavyweight vinyl, a zoetropic 12″ turntable slipmat that animates when activated in part with a strobe light, and\u00a0a bonus 7\u201d featuring two exclusive non-album tracks mailed at a later date’.<\/p>\n

Last Wednesday Animal Collective\u00a0gave their album its first public airing, on loop over the speakers in Baltimore-Washington International Airport. After a series of teasers<\/a> posted via the group’s Instagram account culminated in the\u00a0cryptic message\u00a0‘ItsintheAirifyoucanFindit’<\/a>, the presence of the album was subsequently revealed by the comedian, and cousin of Avey Tare, Matt Baetz<\/a>. Baetz quickly expanded on his message<\/a>, noting that the record would play until 6 pm, and was best heard in bathrooms, pre-security observation areas, and the airport’s post-security lounge.<\/p>\n

\"Painting<\/a><\/p>\n

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Accompanying all of this album information, Animal Collective have also today released the record’s first single,\u00a0the title track\u00a0entitled ‘FloriDada’, with buzzing and squelching synths, clip-clopping percussion, and lapping vocals.\u00a0Avey Tare explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n

‘It’s sort\u00a0of inspired by hating on people from Florida.\u00a0I was driving in L.A. and\u00a0flipping through the radio dial and came across a morning radio show where they’re just talking all the time.\u00a0They had a segment called, like, ‘Dumb Things People Are Doing In Florida.’\u00a0It kind of bothered me.\u00a0Everybody\u2014they kind of agree that Florida’s such a weird place, know what I mean? But in a way, that’s part of the charm of it.’<\/em><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Iw2ssNnA_Es<\/p>\n

The announcement of Painting With<\/em> comes after the release in September of Live at 9:30<\/em>, Animal Collective’s\u00a0third live record, drawn from a performance at the\u00a09:30 Club in Washington, DC on 12 June 2013. And at the end of October,\u00a0the lineup of Avey Tare, Panda Bear, and Geologist shared ‘Michael, Remember’, a twenty-three minute improvised jam taken from the first\u00a0Painting With<\/em> practise session at the Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville, North Carolina in May.<\/p>\n

‘Michael Remember’ is set to footage filmed at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico. The footage was shot in July 2014 by Colin Foord, a marine biologist, and a collaborator with the musician Jared McKay in Coral Morphologic<\/a>, a scientific art endeavour which seeks to explore the visual potential of coral reefs. Foord was assisted with the camera work and lighting by Geologist and Deakin, and the film was edited together with the audio by McKay.<\/p>\n