VOLUME - Animal Collective

So by now, I’m sure you guys have seen the new Alien Workshop video, Mind Field. And if you haven’t you’re sleeping kid [here's our take on the premiere last week]. Among the distinct sound of Alien, with its roots with Dinosaur Jr. a new sound emerged with the Workshop, an Animal sound. A little SAT analogies for ya; Animal Collective is to Alien Workshop as Band Of Horses is to the Girl camp. 

So if you recall, Jake Johnson and Jason Dill both use songs from Merriweather Post Pavilion, the new album from Animal Collective. Jake uses “My Girls” and Dill uses ?In the Flowers?. Both nice fits for their parts. A coincidence to have the video come out just as the new album comes out. Witty marketing on both sides. 

Heres a little background story about the band and about the new album.

“Animal Collective is a group of four best friends who grew up playing and recording music together in Baltimore County Maryland. Why Animal? Cause it’s the only word we could think of that made any remote connection to what we thought our sound was and of course, we love our fellow animals very much. Why Collective? Cause we have always wanted to be the ones who define what and who AC is. Two people? Four people? Why not? Don’t be surprised if you come to see us and it’s not what you thought it would be, and try not to get too upset. AC continues to make music after seven years, six studio records and one live record, that combines a love of sonic free form electronic horror gospel hip hop soul pop madness and brings it all together into something that is (hopefully) at times totally pleasing and at others completely scary and confusing but most importantly is refreshing in this crazy crazy world.”

“Merriweather Post Pavilion is the ninth studio album from Animal Collective, 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.”

Listen to them here:

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The album cover art for Merriweather Post Pavilion. It’s trippy bro.

P.S. Here’s the list of the parts and songs from Mind Field as found on skatevideosite.com.

Alien Workshop - Mind Field music soundtrack songs list