Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion

Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective's ninth studio album, sees the American art-rock collective in heartwarmingly baffling form, combining upbeat indietronica with mind-warping samples.

Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective's ninth studio album, sees the American art-rock collective in heartwarmingly baffling form, combining upbeat indietronica with mind-warping samples.

Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective's ninth studio album, sees the American art-rock collective in heartwarmingly baffling form, combining upbeat indietronica with mind-warping samples.

Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective's ninth studio album, sees the American art-rock collective in heartwarmingly baffling form, combining upbeat indietronica with mind-warping samples.

Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective's ninth studio album, sees the American art-rock collective in heartwarmingly baffling form, combining upbeat indietronica with mind-warping samples.

Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective's ninth studio album, sees the American art-rock collective in heartwarmingly baffling form, combining upbeat indietronica with mind-warping samples.

Merriweather Post Pavilion is the 2009 album by Avey Tare, Panda Bear and Geologist, who are better known as Baltimore trio (sometimes a quartet) Animal Collective. This, their eighth album, was released by Domino.

"Centipede Hz", the 10th Animal Collective album, follows the widely celebrated "Merriweather Post Pavilion" (2009) and it's the first since "Strawberry Jam" (2007) to feature all four original band members: Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist and Deakin. As the album's opening drum crashes and radio interference immediately make clear, Animal Collective have made their most widescreen and fully realized music to date. The album is a panoramic set of songs that shimmer with the confidence and wonder of Animal Collective's unique inner logic and the luminous warmth of their sound world.

Animal Collective have many, many strengths but brevity has never really been one of them. Until now, that is, because their M.O. for the follow-up to 2012’s "Centipede Hz" was "no B.S, get in, get out material". Recorded at the Hollywood studio where The Beach Boys created "Pet Sounds", and inspired by "Cubism, Dadaism, and the distorted way those artists viewed the world", "Painting With" is every bit as ambitious as previous Animal Collective records. And yet, out of the jumble of complex polyrhythms, psychedelic synth effects and hyperactive vocal harmonies, the trio have conjured a set that's flab-free and packed full of pop hooks.

Ballet Slippers is a live release marking the 10 year anniversary of Animal Collective’s studio album Merriweather Post Pavilion. The release is culled from several shows from that album’s North American tour and sequenced to reflect a full concert experience, complete with song transitions and interludes.