Recent blog posts about Animal Collective from music blog aggregator, Elbo.ws http://elbo.ws/artist/animalcollective/ 2012-02-15T16:23:38+01:00 text/html 2012-02-12T13:02:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4055573/breezy-sundays-fixers-iron-deer-dream-video/
Fixers | Iron Deer Dream (out March 11) Fixers - Iron Deer Dream]]> text/html 2012-02-10T21:58:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4052610/brothertiger-video-album-news/
From a person who absolutely loved Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion , the arrival of Brothertiger 's Golden Years has an eerily similar texture. The project of Ohio-native John Jagos hasn't proven to be as off the wall as the oddly-named foursome of Animal Collective, but the outward reaching, spacey moments capture a bit of the zaniness that's so damn contagious. In anticipation of the March 27 release of Golden Years from Mush Records , Brothertiger used the talents of with Kiki Allgeier and David Ambrose to produce a spandex-friendly video for "Lovers." [...]]]> text/html 2012-02-10T17:23:06+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4051926/oberhofer-heart/
Download link is in the original post Sounds like: Panda Bear, Animal Collective, City Center Song: Oberhofer - Heart [download here ] What's so good? After [...]]]> text/html 2012-02-07T03:10:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4042142/cougar-microbes-writers-picks-coles-top-10/
1. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy Made the Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011 list here 2. Adele - 21 Made the Cougar Microbes Top Albums of 2011 list here 3. Cliff Martinez with various artists - Drive (Original Movie Soundtrack) Drive the film was bad-ass. Ask all my friends, I was obsessed with [...]]]> text/html 2012-02-02T12:12:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4031624/fixers-iron-deer-dream-video/
Here's an uplifiting video for your Thursday afternoon, the atmospheric Iron Deer Dream by Oxford quintet Fixers . The band formed in 2011, recieving rave review of their synth based multi-track harmonies. Continually recieving comaparisons to the wonderful Animal Collective , the band do not dispell the rumours by citing them as an influence to MUZU . See below for a list of their favourite songs, past and present which displays a list of eclectic and diverse musicians and genres, spanning centuries of music. 1. Eurythmics - Shame 2. Hamish [...]]]> text/html 2012-01-24T19:48:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4011301/animal-collective-hot-chip-passion-pit-among-the-offerings-on/
KCRW -sponsored shows featuring Animal Collective and Hot Chip / Passion Pit were among the dates announced today as part of the Hollywood Bowl summer slate, which will feature superstar conductor Gustavo Dudamel's six-night "Americas and Americans" festival in August, appearances by Ben Harper (July 1), Smokey Robinson (July 20-21) and Norah Jones (Aug. 10), and Anita Baker and Esperanza Spalding (Aug. 22) and the venues usual fare of stellar classical, jazz and theatrical productions. The Hot Chip/Passion Pit show is Sept. 9. Animal Collective, supported by the Tuvan throat singing group [...]]]> text/html 2012-01-24T11:56:07+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4010125/new-to-us-new-to-you-brns/
Words by Will I lie to myself. I like to convince that I am worldly and cultured. Sadly, I know the opposite to be true. But worldly music leanings are a strong first step in my culturing process. Maybe, one day I will be able to escape my own preconceived bullshit. Maybe, just maybe, hopefully, you (the esteemed and probably much more cultured audience) can take this journey with me. As such, I present Brussels heavy pop quartet BRNS . This is a formal informal introduction. By reading this, you will become more cultured. As [...]]]> text/html 2012-01-24T01:46:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4008990/animal-collective-to-play-the-hollywood-bowl/
Last year they played the Main Stage at Coachella but now they're headlining a local date! Animal Collective will be playing live at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday, Sept. 23 with opener Huun Huur Tu. Tickets to see Animal Collective...]]> text/html 2012-01-24T00:10:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4008875/animal-collective-hot-chip-passion-pit-among-hollywood-bowl/
Every year, a new crop of band's headlines Los Angeles' iconic Hollywood Bowl and can officially say, you know, they've made it. Last year it was bands like TV On The Radio and The National, while the year before that saw Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, and LCD Soundsystem. As the LA Times reports, a couple of this year's crop may be interesting to you readers, as they are Animal Collective and one-two punch of Hot Chip and Passion Pit. Of course, Panda Bear just played the bowl last year supporting TV On The Radio and Hot Chip [...]]]> text/html 2012-01-20T08:52:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4002037/youve-been-savaging-spires-again/
Savaging Spires - When The Devil Says He's Dead Talked about these guys here ; not wearing me down yet.]]> text/html 2012-01-17T21:00:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3995192/albums-of-the-year-2011-bennys-top-40/
I don't mean to be a prude when I do this, but we all had favourite albums last year, you can't deny that, and I had too many. In fact, so many that I loved that it was difficult to decide between them all, and I had been reading endless 'trendy choice' end-of-year lists before the year had even gone out. So I thought I might deliver some kind of personal justice by posting one that people can sneer at all they want, but might actually pick out something they overlooked and think "Hey, I might actually try that now, [...]]]> text/html 2012-01-14T22:55:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3989241/the-11-most-anticipated-albums-of-2012/
As we move into a new year, one of the strangest pieces of news has been revealed. Album sales in 2011 actually went up for the first time in almost a decade. Granted it was mostly due to Adele's incredibly popular album...that still proves that the album as a musical format is still very viable. And while all the news articles still like to pronounce the death of rock and how pop has]]> text/html 2012-01-13T18:48:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3986989/video-animal-collective-strawberry-jam-studio-time-lapse/
Pretty simple. Watch a cool time-lapse video of Animal Collective as they record their record Strawberry Jam . Strawberry Time Lapse from animal collective on Vimeo .]]> text/html 2012-01-13T17:15:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3986765/animal-collective-revela-strawberry-jam/
En 2007, Animal Collective trabajaba en lo que sera su sptimo album, el productor, Scott Colburn coloc una cmara de video para tomar clips cortos en intervalos de un minuto mientras la banda estaba en el estudio de grabacin, y ahora han sacado a la luz ese material. El mensaje en la pgina de video de la banda dice: Our tracking session for Strawberry Jam in Tucson at Wavelab Studios in 2007. We post this about 2 weeks before we will be heading into the studio to begin recording our next record. Thanks to everyone for [...]]]> text/html 2012-01-13T16:51:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3986738/watch-a-time-lapse-video-of-animal-collective-recording-strawberry/
The entire recording process is cut down to 9 minutes.]]> text/html 2012-01-13T10:30:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3986195/animal-collective-announce-theyre-a-few-weeks-away-from-recording/
Yesterday a video on the Animal Collective Vimeo page popped up, along with the following info: Scott Colburn had a great idea when we were recording Strawberry Jam. He set up a video camera to take short clips of footage once a minute for the whole time we were in the studio. This is the unedited result. Our tracking session for Strawberry Jam in Tucson at Wavelab Studios in 2007. We post this about 2 weeks before we will be heading into the studio to begin recording our next [...]]]> text/html 2012-01-13T07:07:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3986491/animal-collective-distill-album-recording-into-nine-minutes/
WATCH: The band have posted a time-lapse video of the recording of Strawberry Jam...]]> text/html 2012-01-11T18:00:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3981256/why-2012-is-going-to-be-a-great-year-for/
2012 is poised to be one of the greatest years in music in awhile. Why? Well, I'll give you a hint: it isn't because Justin Bieber is set to have an album coming out. In fact, I don't even know whether that's true or not. It's exciting because Phoenix, Spoon, Delta Spirit, Mumford & Sons, P.O.S., Passion Pit, Animal Collective, The Shins, Brother Ali, Dr. Dre, Miike Snow, Lana Del Rey, Andrew Bird, Sleigh Bells , and the xx are poised to release albums. That's not even including all of the new or smaller bands that will [...]]]> text/html 2012-01-11T06:50:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3979593/2012-album-guide/
When you compile a list like this, you start to tremble at how much you're really going to absorb in the ensuing months. This doesn't even cover the misses and surprises. If you're a casual listener, you might get through an album a day. Okay, maybe two. If you're a fanatic, you're spinning discographies left and right. Still, after 365 days, either person is buzzing. One's just a little louder with the phonetics. As I wrote back in December, in a year, you'll have your next roundup of favorite albums. You'll have a new favorite song. You might [...]]]> text/html 2011-12-26T20:00:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3951927/new-years-eve-2011-concert-guide/
It's been a long year. Scratch that, it's been a veeerrrry long year. From social revolutions to the end of our occupation of Iraq, from the death of celebrities and dictators to a man who sneezes bullets and the mystery of planking, the world experienced a slew of emotions and all sorts of cultural and political upheaval in 2011. And that's not even counting the plethora of music news that had the blogosphere abuzz this year . So, as the question begs, what comes next? Well, 2012. If you were to believe certain [...]]]>