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In an interview Animal Collective’s Davey Portner reveals to Pitchfork that the band is in fact going to be releasing a new EP in December. I will contain five new tracks and it will have a “darker” to feel it according to Portner. As some of you may already know it is titled “Fall Be Kind” and it is comprised of five songs within the length of 28 minutes. In the interview Davey describes every single song on the EP;
The first song is called “Graze”, and it’s one we’ve been playing live since we started playing the Merriweather stuff. It was in our original 2007 set of those songs. We definitely started recording it then. The last song on the EP is called “I Think I Can”. They’re just two songs that we wanted to take a little more time on. We usually have two passes on the songs when we’re recording them. We’ll go into a studio and record everything that we do live, basically, and do rough mixes. And then there’s ideas that we take into the studio that we know we’re going to do with the songs, and we’re writing stuff as we go along. So we go back after we lay down the initial tracks for every song, which was 14 songs when we recorded Merriweather. We went back and decided what songs to work on right off the bat, and those two– “I Think I Can” and “Graze– we knew they wouldn’t really fit on Merriweather, so we thought we’d put them aside until later.
The second song on the EP is called “What Would I Want? Sky”, which is the one with the Grateful Dead sample that people have been talking about a little bit. I went there with the blueprint of the song, but we never really played it together. We didn’t even really get to that one. We didn’t talk about it, but we figured we’d come back to it. And then we started playing that song live this year. We jammed in Lisbon for our first tour this year and worked it out. We decided we would record it for the EP.
The third song is called “Bleed”, and that’s another one we’ve been playing this year that just came together really fast. I thought it would be cool to do something a little bit more droney for our tour to throw in our live set. We ended up just being pretty psyched on it. It’s pretty simple, a kind of repetitive song. So we recorded that one.
The fourth song is called “On a Highway”, and it’s from the Merriweather era, too. We’ve done it on a BBC session. We started recording it during Merriweather, but it was the most like, “Whoa, this is definitely not going to fit on the record.” It’s got different vibes altogether. We changed it a little. We went into the studio in Brooklyn, a studio called Mission. Ben Allen, the guy we’ve been working with on Merriweather and these songs, has been working there a lot, and he’s pretty familiar with it. It’s got a really great live room, so there’s a lot of that on the new stuff we’ve recorded. The drums sound really roomy and sweet.
He also discusses the vibe of the EP:
The vibe is a little bit darker, I’d say– not in terms of the sound, maybe. Well, the melodies are definitely darker. It’s not abrasive dark or anything, but I think the mood of it has just a little bit more of a nighttime, kind of dark, sad vibe, even though I think “What Would I Want? Sky” is a little bit more positive or upbeat. That’s the only one. And then “I Think I Can” is very rhythmic, too. A lot of it’s not so rhythmic, or at least not as much as Merriweather is. It’s a little bit more washy and kind of orchestral.
In the rest of the interview he talks about how the band was able to obtain the Grateful Dead sample and how they are planning to release a new film and have submitted it to Sundance. You can read the full interview here. The album is available to purchase here. The tracklisting for the EP is below.
Animal Collective – Fall Be Kind tracklisting:
1. Graze
2. What Would I Want? Sky
3. Bleed
4. On A Highway
5. I Think I Can
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