Video: Panda Bear - "Boys Latin"

Animal Collective’s Panda Bear is set to release his fifth studio LP, Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper on January 13^th. The record leaked about a month back and it’s pretty great. “Boys Latin,” is the first video and it's a vibrant animated journey directed by Isaiah Saxon and Sean Hellfritsch. The video premiered on Adult Swim over the weekend and has some thematic nods to some of the network's more popular animated series'. 

Video: Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks – “Strange Colores”

Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, the new band featuring the Animal Collective member, ex-Dirty Projectors member Angel Deradoorian and ex-Ponytail drummer Jeremy Hyman have shared a video for “Strange Colors’ off their forthcoming debut  LP, Enter the Slasher House. The predictably trippy tune should please fans off all those involved and officially drops on April 8th. The kaleidoscopic visuals come from director by Olivia Wyatt.

Video: animal Collective - "Monkey Riches'

Animal Collective shared their latest video from 2012′s head trip, Centipede Hz . “Monkey Riches” is pretty much as odd of a video as the music that is it playing companion to; in the six minute clip director Jack Kubizne  shares the misadvebtures of a bedridden wizard played by actor Martin Pfefferkon.

Video: Daft Punk Random Access Memories Video Series Episode 6 – Chilly Gonzales

Episode 6 of Daft Punk’s Meet The Collaborators series was released this morning and features Canadian musician Chilly Gonzales who’s work you most certainly know from his collaborations with Peaches, Fiest and Buck 65 to name but a few . In the nine minute video Jason speaks of his love of Harmony, the type of work he did on the upcoming Daft Punk LP, and his chosen approach when doing collaborations. Jason even goes on to actually play some of the piano pieces that will appear on Random Access Memories which is due out on May 21st.

Video: Daft Punk Random Access Memories Video Series Episode 5 – Panda Bear

Episode 5 of Daft Punk’s Meet The Collaborators series was released this morning and features Animal Collective’s Panda Bear, aka Noah Benjamin Lennox. In the eight minute video Noah talks about trying to collaborate with the robotic due on several occasions only to be shot down over the years, until that is they contacted him and let him know the time was finally right.  Noah comes from of a space where he composes his music from a very rhythmic place so his contributions to the new LP should be both interesting and a natural fit, although thinking of both bands' musical output one might not arrive at the same conclusion. Random Access Memories drops on May 21st.

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.

Panda Bear - "Slow Motion" video + interview

A video for Animal Collective member Panda Bear's "Slow Motion"  off his LP Tomboy hit the web today. The Cheryl Dunn-directed clip features performance footage taken at Panda Bear's show at NYC's Governors Island on September 11, 2010, as well as video of an interview. Check it out below...

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