Phoenix, “Love Like A Sunset (Animal Collective Remix/Deakin’s Jam)” MP3

Head just exploded when reading title. So excited. Hipster Runoff will probably write a 3,000 word rant about how this song creates co-branded eternal bliss or something, but honestly, you should never be afraid to like a song, and we love this. The remix, as Deakin says on the Phoenix blog, is the result of mutual admiration and a subconscious association with marine life, and actually sounds like they might’ve recorded it together underwater.



Download: Phoenix, “Love Like A Sunset (Animal Collective Remix/Deakin’s Jam)”
(via Phoenix)

ATP New York 2009: Babies and Drums

Boredoms’ drummer Yojiro (YO2RO) Tatekawa was carried into the main performance space on a platform carried by eight dudes, ten minutes into the already heart-exploding Boadrum 9 reprise at ATP New York last Sunday. He bashed on his drums so hard, it was unclear whether they would be able to hold him up. They did, and an hour later, Tatekawa and his bandmate Yoshimi were walking around with a bunch of awesome little Boredoms babies, on their way to participate in Oneida’s marathon 13-hour performance and then check out Boris’ volcanic replay of their album Feedbacker. Jim Jarmusch looked pretty psyched on Boris too. This was basically the vibe at Kutsher’s Country Club, a tarnished gem of the Catskills social set, where VIP is nonexistent and there was always something happening that was going to destroy your eardrums for, as of post time, at least two or three days.

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Palms, “Boundary Waters” (Deakin of Animal Collective Remix) MP3

Palms are weird. The New York duo seem like an art project more than a band, the music of real life Sprockets. For his remix of their “Boundary Waters,” Josh Dibbs aka Deakin, the member in absentia of Animal Collective, gives the song loopy downers, turns their weird gallery Marina Abramovic into upstate, on vacation Marina Abramovic, away from the bummer bleak city and into the tall grass and pollen.



Download: Palms, “Boundary Waters” (Deakin of Animal Collective Remix) (via XLR8R)

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Atlas Sound w. Noah Lennox, “Walkabout” MP3

In FADER #49, Bradford Cox aka Atlas Sound told Black Lips’ Cole Alexander:

“It’s not good to be trapped in that same state of mind for your whole life. It’s a sad and difficult thing, actually. It’s like never getting over something and trying to work it out over and over and over again. The sounds may be a little more advanced, but I’m essentially making the same kind of art with the same kind of ideas that I was when I was a kid.”

On “Walkabout,” the first song from his upcoming album Logos (Oct 20, Kranky), Cox sings along with Noah Lennox, What did you want to see/ What did you want to be/ When you grew up, and generally seems to be focused on moving on, becoming an adult, or at least acknowledging that he can’t be a child anymore. The song samples the bubbling keys of “What Am I Going to Do” by the Dovers, as inspired by some tour bus song games between Cox and Animal Collective, and reflects that song’s simple and beautiful pop, with Cox and Lennox’s signature soft layers. If Logos is in any way as good as this song, we will not need much else in the fall.



Download: Atlas Sound w. Noah Lennox, “Walkabout”

Video: Animal Collective, “Summmertime Clothes”

Completely ridiculous Danny Perez-directed video for the new Animal Collective single. Dancers styling on you. Colors and colors!

Freeload: Animal Collective, “Summertime Clothes” (Dam Funk Remix) Radio Rip MP3

The funny thing about this is how it’s not even that much of a stretch for Animal Collective circa 2009. If you told us six years ago that the band who recorded an entire album on a couple mini disk players while sitting on a porch would be soliciting remixes from West Coast funk revivalist Dam Funk, we’d probably be like, Who is Dam Funk? And then we would try to tell you about the first TV on the Radio EP. But it’s here now, and it sounds kind of like “My Girls.”



Download: Animal Collective, “Summertime Clothes” (Dam Funk Remix) Radio Rip MP3

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Video: Animal Collective, “Summertime Clothes” (Live on Letterman)

Hey we just realized we’ve never seen these dudes play music this close with the lights turned on! Boardwalk sweatshirts! Looking good, dudes!

Karen O is Like Rad, Man

From last night on Late Night (video above)…

Dave: That’s good. I like that. Nice going. Boy, that’s just about right.

Paul: Karen O is like rad, man. Karen O is like rad, man. Karen O is like rad, man.

KAREN O IS LIKE RAD MAN RAD MAN RAD MAN RAD MAN. Dude, this is properly worded. Paul Schaffer: always on the ball. You know who else is on the ball? Erol Alkan. We know everyone is already on top of Animal Collective’s trippy remix of “Zero” and we’ll put it up below for good measure, but Erol melted “Zero” into like a really really hot chocolate sauce and is pouring it all over the mushy lump of ice cream that is our brains.

Stream: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Zero (Erol Alkan Rework)”

Video: Animal Collective Live in Paradise

Dutch site 3VOOR12 managed to film Animal Collective playing the Paradiso in Amsterdam recently and we have decided to cancel our cable, Netflix, unsubscribe our Hulu feed, stop eating, cease showering, move into the closet and hotbox with this playing on a loop until it seems like the right time to come out. Watch the whole hour-plus show here—new joints, old joints, sampler jams, etc—and make sure to check the dudes out when they get back to the States for a round of summer shows starting in May. Also, these guys put out a decent album this year. And now we’re done typing obvious things. Later.

Totally 100% Official Video: Animal Collective, “Summertime Clothes”

You know, if you have to write “official” in your video headline you’re probably a little boy who cried wolf. And spelling it “offiche” doesn’t help (neither does having the video be like half as long as the song is and fading it out in the middle). But whatevs this jams! We need more Animal Collective media! Where did this lady come from? Did she know she was dancing completely in time to “Summertime Clothes”? How do people’s brains work that this exists? More importantly, is that gold cape on the back of her chair her summer clothes? Because that giant muumuu is giving off some winter vacation vibes which is totally not the same thing.

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