Video: Animal Collective - "Applesauce"

Gaspar Noé continues his streak of working in the medium of music videos having recently completed the latest set of visuals for the Animal Collective. “Applesauce” is meant to be viewed in complete darkness and might make you hungry.

Listen: Animal Collective - "Centipede HZ" (Full Lp Stream)

Animal Collective are gearing up to release their follow up to 2009’s Merriweather Post Pavilion. Centipede Hz will be out on September 4th via Domino but you can now listen to the whole thing HERE till 9pm EST tonight. And just in case you missed it, we shared the Danny Perez directed video for lead single, "Today's Supernatural" on Friday which you can view HERE. 

Video: Animal Collective - "Today's Supernatural"

Animal Collective are gearing up to release their latest album, Centipede Hz, on September 4th. We already heard lead single "Today's Supernatural" and now we get the Danny  Perez  directed video. Featuring a colorful go-kart racing in the desert, trippy visuals, face paint, dismembered arms that beat up a weird dragon thing, a pretty intense ending and more strange and fun stuff.

Listen: Animal Collective - "Today's Supernatural"

Brooklyn’s premiere psychedelic pop act, AnimalCollective, will make their return with Centipede Hz, out September 4th on Domino. “Today’s Supernatural” is the first single. The tune premiered on Animal Collective Radio, which is going down every Sunday night at 9 p.m. EST. Check out the new track below and pre-order the album here.

Video: Doug Aitken's Song 1 Project

Pitchfork recently released a behind-the-scenes video on the large art installation they helped produce with artist Doug Aitken.  The project was entitled Song1 and took place at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC last April.  With the help of 11 high-def projectors a video was broadcast on the exterior of the building featuring multiples versions of the 1934 classic "I Only Have Eyes for You" by The Flamingos reworked and re-imagined by musicians such as Beck, Lucky Dragons, Devendra Banhart, James Murphy, No Age, etc..

Aitken chose this song because he associates it w/ "sonic wallpaper", something we have heard so many times on radio, TV, etc.. that it has lost its meaning and essentially fades from our consciousness.  In this project the song is warped and poked at from every angle hoping to create something new.

On May 11th, the Hirschhorn had what they call "a happening" which was a live concert in conjunction with Song 1 in which many of the musicians in question including Animal Collective's Geologist created live soundtracks outside on the lawn of the musuem to accompany the video display.  The was also broadcast live on Youtube.



BONUS - The original Song1 promotional video

Listen: Animal Collective – “Honeycomb” & “Gotham”

After several years of solo and side projects, AnimalCollective, much like Voltron, have once again come together to be at full strength and grace us with some new material. The latest offering from the Baltimore quartet stays true to their psychedelic pop sound. In “Honeycomb” the hectic instrumentation takes the lead over the vocals, while “Gotham” does the exact opposite and chooses to focus on the vocals more than the music. The two songs, which will likely be on a forthcoming full-length, will be released as a single on June 26 through Domino records – listen to both below.