The Animal Collective "Here Comes the Indian"

Paw Tracks  PAW 1 cd/lp

 

The Animal Collective have teamed up with Carpark Records to form a record label.  The members of the collective (Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Deaken, and Geologist) now have a home base from which to communicate, and it is called Paw Tracks.  Paw Tracks is the label of the Animal Collective.  The first release is titled Here Comes the Indian.  Expect much more.

 

For the past 3 or 4 years, the Animal Collective have been creating quite an underground stir.  Having already released over 5 records and with two successful US tours (one with friends The Black Dice) under their belts, the Animal Collective are now poised to significantly alter the popular music landscape.  

 

Their sound is everywhere and nowhere.  Informed by the psychedelic freak-outs of 90s west coast isolationists like Caroliner and Sun City Girls, the emotional bursts of hardcore punk, the textures and structures of minimal techno (a la the Kompakt label), the earthiness of sixties utopians Amon Duul and Can, and the organic looseness of the best of the free and improvised music world, the Animal Collective simply cannot be pinned down.

 

The Animal Collective are creating the new spiritual music for the 21st century:  music that is aware of tradition without being tied down to it; music unconcerned

with borders and definition.  Here Comes the Indian promises transcendence, intensity, articulation, and metamorphosis.  A passionate and mind-altering new narrative has been unleashed.

 

·  The Animal Collective will be touring all of North America this summer with Carpark’s Ogurusu Norihide.

·  The Animal Collective have already toured North America twice, once with their friends The Black Dice (DFA records).

·  Fat Cat Records are reissuing the first two Animal Collective records Spirit They’ve Gone Spirit They’ve Vanished and Danse Manatee later this year as well as a split 12” with David Grubbs.

· The Animal Collective collaborated with Arto Lindsay on a track for his album Invoke.

· Look out for more Animal Collective projects soon on Paw Tracks, including a Paw Tracks compilation and the Panda Bear solo project!

· Check out www.paw-tracks.com for more info.

 

tracklisting:

·         Native Belle

·         Hey Light

·         Infant Dressing Table

·         Panic

·         Two Sails on a Sound

·         Slippi

·         Too Soon

 

select discography:

Panda Bear – S/T (Soccer Star records) 1998

Avey Tare and Panda Bear – Spirit They’ve Gone Spirit They’ve Vanished (Animal) 2000 – ANM 01 cd

Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist – Danse Manatee (Catsup Plate) 2001 – CPR710 cd

Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist – Hollinndagain (St. Ives) 2002 – limited edition lp of 300.

Campfire Songs - Campfire Songs (Catsup Plate) 2003