ANIMAL COLLECTIVE ANNOUNCE STREAM OF NEW ALBUM, CENTIPEDE HZ
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But perhaps most exciting was Avey Tare’s announcement that Animal Collective will premiere their new album Centipede Hz (Out Sept 4th) LIVE on Animal Collective Radio next Sunday, August 19th at 9PM EST on Animal Collective Radio.
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And here's something a member of Animal Collective's message board wrote about the album, track per track:
Read if you wantMoonjock - Trebly, disorienting, epic, big drum and guitar pulses. Slippi-esque, Avey lead, perky sounds darting around. Multiple sections, jumps around a lot. Has an awesome semi-shouted repeated coda that disappears and turns into a fantastic live style transition with radio snippets into…
Today’s Supernatural – we know it, we love it, it is perfectly placed. Two high energy songs to kick things off. Another transition…
Rosie Oh – that soft synth and then… I’d Rather! So much more dense, full of crazy squeaking and squawking sounds, panda sounds distant and the thick layers of sound jump out around and in front of him, percussion in more complicated, even more sounds darting around than today’s supernatural! Vocals and lyrics almost identical to live version. Sweet harmonies added during ‘I’m on my own’ section. Reverb and sawing sounds during ‘like to raise it up’. Heavy section at end more warped. Really clear “Jonnie Walker!” voice at end. First pause in music.
Applesauce – chirpy avey led tune. Jumpy and gently aggressive, like tikwid or water curses. Lots of classic full-to-the-brim Avey melodies. Panda letting loose with polyrhythms. Loving the percussive sounds (lots of xylophone, vibraphone, glock type sounds), prominent surging deeks guitars. It’s the sort of classic avey tune we will all really enjoy (think peacebone, lion in a coma and previously mentioned tunes). Semi-transition into the ‘Change’ intro we all know.
Wide eyed – Change! Kicks in quick with deeks and those loopy drums. Deeks is a little more restrained. That avey guitar line in the chorus is more synthesized. The song as a whole is less earthy than the boots and more spacey. Has a real shooting through the stars feel. Nice harmonies late in the second verse. Deeks gets into it more towards the end. Has turned out really well. Repeated ‘wide eyed’ at the end gets more and more forceful and intense leading into that twisted laugh that transitions into… (loving that they really kept the transitions)
Father time – percussion unchanged at the start, bass sounds great and warbled, avey has once again switched up the lyrics a fair bit. Feels groovier and more fluid than the live version to me. Lots of extra sounds jumping around. Percussion in the chorus is filtered. Harmonies added in chorus, and a flute or something sitting way back. Lyrics suddenly drop out and a sustained oooohhhh rings out instead of normal second verse ending. Second chorus, new lyrics and a slightly varied vocal melody. Mellow section in the end has lots of creepy manipulated voice samples and sinking sounds. Song fades out with no transition. My least fave boot but sounds splendid here.
New Town Burnout – Take this weight! Starts gentle with pitch shifted voices, then those drums kick in, Thick!! Synth warps and clunks along. Panda kicks in, more strung out and wired arrangement. A few new vocal embellishments. Sounds fantastic. All the layers are still there plus a few more. The percussion just drives the whole thing as it did in the live versions. Middle section is even more mind blowing than boots! Absolute wide screen beauty with a new oh oh oh vocals, punchy EH’s! and a wave of goosebumps for me! Album highlight so far and just ****ing incredible. End section ‘Lift this weight!’ again has so many more layers. Lots of weary and warped sounds. Sounds like devastation after the euphoria of the instrumental section. Panda sings deep and listless and the transition goes exactly according to the boots into…
Monkey Riches – Avey is mixed loud and slightly distorted up front. Extra bass drum percussion adds even more energy. Slightly slower tempo but Avey’s vocals still aggressive. New lyrics. Choruses have the new version of the vocal melody. ‘Make a monkey rich’ arrangement is more spacious. Energy slowly builds over second verse. Lots of extra layers again. Geo is working his arse off this album! New guitars during second ‘make a monkey rich’ section. Mid section is industrial! Things drop away before final chorus, slowly building through the vocals and into a fully screamed ‘make a MONKEY RIIIICCCH!!!’ . ‘lalalala’ part at end is thick and intense! Overall, Less flat out aggressive than the boots but much more epic in the way it builds. Awesome stuff. Pause in music again.
Mercury Man – intro shorter. Panda is doing all kinds of awesome. Avey’s vocals very slightly less processed. Nice piano or something similar floating around. Big cymbal hits in pre-chorus. Chorus sounds great. Boots plus some nice overdubs. Interlude is spooky! Vocals creep in your ear while lots of other haunting sounds stalk around. Avey’s vocals more emotive. They’ve nailed this one. Ends with those clunky keys then a sustained static noise that transitions into…
Pulleys – new song. **** yeh. Rim shots. World music vibes. Avey vocals. Lush and full of changes. Constant groove but the arrangement is constantly shifting. Nice deeks guitar weaving around. Big reverb drenched semi-chorus parts. They pop up briefly then give way to the rim shot, lush verse sections. Almost pastoral in parts. Short song, quick transition into the closer.
Amanita – thick synthy melody line that has a faintly eastern feel. Bullet-like snares and tom toms. Big ‘oh oh oh oh’ backing vocals that remind me of feels era. Avey vocals again. A very songy song. Less chaotic than some of the earlier tunes. Gets a little more intense in the middle and bursts into a dense and squelchy mid section. Transition two-thirds of the way in into a dancey beat and a completely junkyard synth. Avey belts out a lightening fast melody. Nice climax to finish things off echo-laden wordless vocals that are consumed by a whirring static sound that shuts down like a machine at the end of its cycle."
