Animal Collective will be embarking on a month long tour this spring in support of Merriweather Post Pavilion. The album, available now on Domino Records, is Animal Collective’s ninth studio album and was recorded with Ben Allen in Oxford, Mississippi. After listening to this record, however, it’s clear that Animal Collective have transcended the everyday realities of numbers, locations and people and arrived at a spectacular, unique place.

Animal Collective have made a universal record that makes the same beautiful sense on headphones by day, or soundtracking the small hours of the morning/night, or, you suspect, stretched out in a field on your back. Whether a state of mind, or a rest stop somewhere along the way, Merriweather Post Pavilion magnificently redefines your sense of direction.

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“No one who’s been looking forward to [Merriweather Post Pavilion] should be disappointed. Everything that’s defined the band to this point– all those strands winding through their hugely diverse catalog– is refined and amplified here.” – Pitchfork [9.6/10]

“Merriweather Post Pavilion arrives as the group’s most focused collection yet. Not because its borders have narrowed. On the contrary, it attains a sprawling, reach-for-the-sky scope. But the songs are more instantly engaging, the melodies pushed to the foreground of the dense, burbling mixes.” – Chicago Tribune

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ANIMAL COLLECTIVE TOUR DATES
May 11, 09 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
May 12, 09 Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
May 13, 09 New York, NY – Terminal 5
May 14, 09 Boston, MA – House of Blues
May 15, 09 Montreal, PQ – Metropolis
May 16, 09 Toronto, ON – Sound Academy
May 18, 09 Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Hall
May 19, 09 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall Ballroom
May 20, 09 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
May 24, 09 Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
May 25, 09 Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
May 26, 09 Oakland, CA – Fox Theatre
May 27, 09 Big Sur, CA – Henry Miller Memorial Library
May 29, 09 Los Angeles, CA – Wiltern
May 30, 09 Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
May 31, 09 Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theater
Jun 01, 09 Albuquerque, MN – Sunshine Theater
Jun 02, 09 Boulder, CO – Boulder Theatre
Jun 04, 09 Dallas, TX – House Of Blues
Jun 05, 09 Austin, TX – Stubbs
Jun 06, 09 Oxford, MS – The Library
Jun 08, 09 St. Petersburg, FL – State Theatre
Jun 09, 09 Fort Lauderdale, FL – Culture Room
Jun 10, 09 Orlando, FL – Club Firestone