Animal Collective by Hisham Bharoocha
Animal Collective will be at London’s Rough Trade East on the LP’s release day.
Animal Collective are previewing their new album Isn’t It Now? again with Gem & I.
Due out on the 29th of this month, the record’s centre-piece is set to be the 22-minute Defeat, backed on its 12″ single release by a live track entitled The Challenge which was improvised across 11 different shows between March-September 2022.
“The only time it was even discussed was after shows late in the touring cycle when it took on its own identity,” Geologist said of it.
‘How did we feel about the Strung intro?’ often provided the answer to ‘how was the show?’ But the discussion always ended at what happened that night, without any detailed critique, and never with how it might happen the next. We became aware the same discussions were happening amongst our fans, who were recording, uploading and listening to the shows each night.