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.

New ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Video "My Girls"

Awesome! A video for my second favorite track on Merriweather Post Pavillion, out now on Domino.

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Believe the Hype

I've finally had a chance to delve into the new Animal Collective LP Merriweather Post Pavilion, and I have to say it is worthy of the overwhelming buzz surrounding it. At times it sounds like euphoric rave music, executed with real instruments in the psych-rock nature that AC have previously perfected. Check out the Beach Boys-esque standout track "My Girls", now streaming at myspace...

STREAM Animal Collective - My Girls

Also, check out an awesome mash-up of the track with Frankie Knuckles' Chicago House classic "Your Love" over at Gorilla vs. Bear.

Merriweather Post Pavilion is out now on vinyl and will be released on CD and digitally January 20 (Inauguration Day!) via Domino Records.