Following a successful West Coast run, Animal Collective is pleased to announce additional US tour dates. The band will be playing a new set and all four members – Panda Bear, Deakin, Geologist, and Avey Tare – will be touring. In addition to playing the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago and making a return to Prospect Park in Brooklyn, they will be playing Merriweather Post Pavilion, the namesake venue of their critically-acclaimed 2009 full-length.

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE TOUR DATES
Jul 07 Orlando FL – The Beacham Theatre
Jul 08 Alpharetta GA – Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Jul 09 Columbia MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Jul 12 Brooklyn NY – Prospect Park
Jul 13 Millvale PA – Mr Smalls Theatre
Jul 15 Chicago IL – Pitchfork Music Festival

Animal Collective – Bluish video

The official video for Animal Collective’s “Bluish.”

About ODDSAC

ODDSAC is a feature film collaboration between the band Animal Collective and filmmaker Danny Perez. The film was co-conceived by and stars Animal Collective, whose 2009 album Merriweather Post Pavilion was named album of the year by SPIN, Entertainment Weekly, and Pitchfork, and topped critics end of year lists worldwide. ODDSAC is a dense and surreal layering of audio and visual elements that eschews conventional narrative to create a visceral, immersive experience.

ODDSAC features an original score with new songs from the band and complex digital manipulation by Perez, a debut filmmaker and visual artist known for his concert projections with musicians such as Black Dice and Panda Bear. ODDSAC represents a new synthesis of music and film, a visual album” whose songs will not be released in any other form. ODDSAC is the result of over four years of intense collaboration between Perez and the band. “It was meant to be an open-ended operation of audio-video synthesis, the passing back and forth of visuals and sound so that each would inform the other and create an organic structure,” said Perez.

Director Danny Perez

Visual artist Danny Perezs evolving aesthetic is informed by a mutated sense of rhythm and the relationship between sound and image. He unique visual constructions have screened at galleries and museums worldwide and in conjunction with touring bands like Black Dice. His debut feature ODDSAC is a collaboration with the band Animal Collective and a visionary visual album and their de-facto new album.

Danny was born in Washington, DC and currently resides in Philadelphia. He graduated from NYU in 2002. Danny is currently developing his next feature, which he calls a cross between Bully, Altered States, and Evil Dead.

Animal Collective

Animal Collective is a band originally from Baltimore, Maryland, currently based in Lisbon, DC, NYC and Baltimore. Animal Collective consists of Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deacon, (Josh Dibb), and Geologist (Brian Weitz). Records released under the name Animal Collective may include contributions from any or all of these members; the lineup is not uniform. The band members met in high school and started recording together in various forms of collaboration from a young age. The group also runs the record label Paw Tracks on which they have released their own material as well as that of other artists.

ODDSAC is a feature film collaboration between the band Animal Collective and filmmaker Danny Perez. The film was co-conceived by and stars Animal Collective, whose 2009 album Merriweather Post Pavilion was named album of the year by SPIN, Entertainment Weekly, and Pitchfork, and topped critic s end of year lists worldwide. ODDSAC is a dense and surreal layering of audio and visual elements that eschews conventional narrative to create a visceral, immersive experience.

ODDSAC features an original score with new songs from the band and complex digital manipulation by Perez, a debut filmmaker and visual artist known for his concert projections with musicians such as Black Dice and Panda Bear. ODDSAC represents a new synthesis of music and film, a visual album” whose songs will not be released in any other form. ODDSAC is the result of over four years of intense collaboration between Perez and the band. “It was meant to be an open-ended operation of audio-video synthesis, the passing back and forth of visuals and sound so that each would inform the other and create an organic structure,” said Perez.

Director Danny Perez

Visual artist Danny Perez’s evolving aesthetic is informed by a mutated sense of rhythm and the relationship between sound and image. His unique visual constructions have screened at galleries and museums worldwide and in conjunction with touring bands like Black Dice. His debut feature ODDSAC is a collaboration with the band Animal Collective and a visionary visual album and their de-facto new album.

Danny was born in Washington, DC and currently resides in Philadelphia. He graduated from NYU in 2002. Danny is currently developing his next feature, which he calls a cross between Bully, Altered States, and Evil Dead.

Animal Collective

Animal Collective is a band originally from Baltimore, Maryland, currently based in Lisbon, DC, NYC and Baltimore. Animal Collective consists of Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deacon, (Josh Dibb), and Geologist (Brian Weitz). Records released under the name Animal Collective may include contributions from any or all of these members; the lineup is not uniform. The band members met in high school and started recording together in various forms of collaboration from a young age. The group also runs the record label Paw Tracks on which they have released their own material as well as that of other artists.

ODDSAC SCREENINGS

April 16th
Philadelphia, PA
International House
7pm & 9pm

April 17th
Baltimore, MD
Senator Theatre
$15, 8pm.

April 19th
Amherst, MA
Hampshire College
Details TBA.

April 20th
Boston, MA
Brattle Theatre
$15. 8:30pm & 10:30pm.

April 21th
Silver Spring, MD
AFI Silver Theatre
$15. 8pm & 10pm.

April 23th
Chapel Hill, NC
Varsity Theatre
$15. 7pm & 9pm.

April 26
Atlanta, GA
Plaza Theatre
$15. 7pm & 9pm.

ODDSAC is a feature film collaboration between the band Animal Collective and filmmaker Danny Perez. The film was co-conceived by and stars Animal Collective, whose 2009 album Merriweather Post Pavilion was named album of the year by SPIN, Entertainment Weekly, and Pitchfork, and topped critic s end of year lists worldwide. ODDSAC is a dense and surreal layering of audio and visual elements that eschews conventional narrative to create a visceral, immersive experience.

ODDSAC features an original score with new songs from the band and complex digital manipulation by Perez, a debut filmmaker and visual artist known for his concert projections with musicians such as Black Dice and Panda Bear. ODDSAC represents a new synthesis of music and film, a visual album” whose songs will not be released in any other form. ODDSAC is the result of over four years of intense collaboration between Perez and the band. “It was meant to be an open-ended operation of audio-video synthesis, the passing back and forth of visuals and sound so that each would inform the other and create an organic structure,” said Perez.

Director Danny Perez

Visual artist Danny Perez s evolving aesthetic is informed by a mutated sense of rhythm and the relationship between sound and image. He unique visual constructions have screened at galleries and museums worldwide and in conjunction with touring bands like Black Dice. His debut feature ODDSAC is a collaboration with the band Animal Collective and a visionary visual album and their de-facto new album.

Danny was born in Washington, DC and currently resides in Philadelphia. He graduated from NYU in 2002. Danny is currently developing his next feature, which he calls a cross between Bully, Altered States, and Evil Dead.

Animal Collective

Animal Collective is a band originally from Baltimore, Maryland, currently based in Lisbon, DC, NYC and Baltimore. Animal Collective consists of Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deacon, (Josh Dibb), and Geologist (Brian Weitz). Records released under the name Animal Collective may include contributions from any or all of these members; the lineup is not uniform. The band members met in high school and started recording together in various forms of collaboration from a young age. The group also runs the record label Paw Tracks on which they have released their own material as well as that of other artists.

ODDSAC SCREENINGS

March 17

Chicago IL, USA

Music Box Theatre

$15. 7pm, 9pm.

March 20

Minneapolis MN, USA

The Cedar

$15. 7pm, 9pm.

March 22

Los Angeles CA, USA

ArcLight Cinerama Dome

$15. 7pm, 9pm.

March 25

San Francisco CA, USA

Sundance Kabuki Cinemas

$15. 6:30pm, 8:30pm.

March 29

Portland OR, USA

Cinema 21

$15. 7pm, 9pm.

March 30

Seattle WA, USA

The Egyptian Theatre

$15. 7pm, 9pm.

Animal Collective – Brothersport video

Directed by Jack Kubizne.

Animal Collective – In The Flowers video

Merriweather Post Pavilion, in stores now!

Animal Collective are set to release a new five track studio EP on November 23rd 2009 (digitally) and 15th December (physically).

Recorded by Ben Allen at Sweet Tea in Oxford, MS in February 2008 and at Mission Sound in Brooklyn, NY August 2009, Fall Be Kind includes recent live favorites Graze and What Would I Want? Sky (featuring the first ever licensed Grateful Dead sample). Fall be Kind will be available worldwide on CD, 12” vinyl and via digital download.

The EP comes less than one year after the band’s critically acclaimed album Merriweather Post Pavilion which wowed fans and critics across the globe. Merriweather has already been named one of the most important albums of the year by Q magazine and Spin in the US, and of the entire decade by Uncut and Pitchfork. Expect to see Merriweather Post Pavillion named one of the year’s best by fans and critics as the year comes to a close.

Track Listing

1 – Graze
2 – What Would I Want? Sky
3 – Bleed
4 – On a Highway
5 – I Think I Can

“Summertime Clothes”, the second single taken from Animal Collective’s universally acclaimed LP, Merriweather Post Pavilion, will be available July 7th in North America on 12” and digitally. “Summertime Clothes” is a deliriously warm and instantly infectious track. Pitchfork commented that the song “starts with an almost militaristic pomp, but soon reaches a place of pure sweetness with a simple chorus hook (“I want to walk around with you”) that could have come from any point in the last 100 years

Remixes are courtesy of Hyperdub’s elusive and spooky beatmaker, Zomby, LA’s ‘Ambassador of Boogie Funk’ Dam-Funk, and South London breakbeat and dubstep producer, LD

Animal Collective recently gave a stunning performance of Summertime Clothes on the David Letterman show in the US. The band was joined by Brooklyn dance troupe FLEX who will also be featured in the forthcoming Danny Perez directed video. Check out the Letterman performance here:

Tracklisting for the single:

A1 – Summertime Clothes (Album Version)

A2 – Summertime Clothes (Dam-Funk Remix)

B1 – Summertime Clothes (Leon Day AKA L.D Remix)

B2 – Summertime Clothes (Zomby’s Analog Lego Mix)

Animal Collective began a North American tour this week, and the remaining dates are as follows:

05.14: Boston, MA – House of Blues

05.15: Montreal, PQ – Metropolis

05.16: Toronto, ON – Sound Academy

05.18: Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Hall

05.19: Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue

05.24: Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom

05.25: Portland, OR – Roseland Theater

05.26: Oakland, CA – Fox Theatre

05.27: Big Sur, CA – Henry Miller Memorial Library

05.29: Los Angeles, CA – Wiltern

05.30: Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues

05.31: Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theater

06.01: Albuquerque, MN – Sunshine Theater

06.02: Boulder, CO – Boulder Theatre

06.04: Dallas, TX – House Of Blues

06.05: Austin, TX – Stubbs

06.06: Oxford, MS – The Library

06.08: St. Petersburg, FL – State Theatre

06.09: Fort Lauderdale, FL – Culture Room

06.10: Orlando, FL – Club Firestone

06.12: Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo Music Festival

08.14: Brooklyn, NY – Prospect Park Bandshell

08.15: Brooklyn, NY – Prospect Park Bandshell

09.12: Monticello, NY – ATP

Animal Collective – My Girls video from the album Merriweather Post Pavilion