ANIMAL COLLECTIVE End Year on High Note

With the year winding to an end, Animal Collective are poised to sweep most music critics best of lists with their now legendary LP Merriweather Post Pavillion. The Fader magazine are so taken with the psych-rock band, that they've granted them guest editor duties for the final issue of 2009. The issue hits stands on December 15th.

The band also just released a new ep Fall Be Kind, which features the first ever legally licensed Grateful Dead sample. It available now digitally and December 15th physically.

Here is their latest video for "In the Flowers", the opening track from MPP.