Listen to Animal Collective on the new episode of The FADER Interview
thefader.comThere are few contemporary bands as prolific and slippery as Animal Collective. In the first two decades of their collaborative career, the boyhood friends from Baltimore experimented in sound art, warped the edges of avant-pop, exploded into mainstream maximalism, and, finally, returned to an ambient, deconstructed naturalism.
Their new album, Time Skiffs, is something different. It’s the sound of a band at equilibrium, tempering the feral catharsis of career highs like 2007’s Strawberry Jam with the subdued minimalism of more pensive records like 2017’s Meeting of the Waters.
Read Next: Panda Bear drops new single “playing the long game” Time Skiffs is the first album to feature all four members of Animal Collective — Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Deakin, and Geologist — since 2012’s Centipede Hz.
A lot has changed in the interim — in each of their lives, in the band’s progression, and in the world at large. Recorded remotely during lockdown, the new record addresses the personal and the sociopolitical in slow motion, with the same air of relaxed reflection.
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