Posted in music on October 7, 2009

Fall Be Kind

I kid. I kid. But Pitchfork did just post news about this mysterious new "Fall Be Kind" Animal Collective record that Amazon is selling (release date: December 8, 2009).

PREVIOUSLY: Pitchfork announces the top 20 albums of the decade

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UPDATE 2: Domino just posted this to their website (thx Philip!)...

Fall Be Kind

UPDATE 3: Domino's header can be updated by anyone?!? (thx J!)...

Fall Be Kind


UPDATE: "Fall Be Kind" (if it exists) is not to be confused with the just-announced Campfire Songs re-release scheduled for January 2010. The press release for that one is below....

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Campfire songs

Paw Tracks is proud to present the reissue of Animal Collective's 2003 album Campfire Songs. Since the CD's original issue on Catsup Plate recently went out of print it is our intention to simply keep the cd in print for as long as possible.

An idea originally thought up by Dave Portner and Noah Lennox while in college, Campfire Songs is not a record of songs sung around a campfire but a record that hints at songs emerging from the fire itself: "We wanted to give the music the feeling and atmosphere of the outdoors and the warmth of a fire, so people could bring it indoors."

A collection of five songs written over a period of four to five years, Campfire Songs is an escape from the clutter and electronic assault of the group's 2001 release Danse Manatee and the tour that preceded it. However, the tapestry quality of the songs and the lines that blur endings from beginnings and jams from compositions highlight a style that the boys had become comfortable with from touring and would continue to work on in the years that followed on records like Here Comes The Indian and Feels.

While the songs were completed in the apartment that three of the members shared (Geologist does not play on this album) they chose to record the music on a screened-in porch in Maryland using portable mini disc players so as to allow the ambience of trees blowing in the wind, the birds chirping and the insects in the area to become an integral part of the sound flow. What remains intact are the melodies that have always been a part of the AC sound-though here they have been stripped away of any electronic accompaniment and stretched and slowed to a calmer place than anywhere AC had been before and perhaps has gone since.

Campfire Songs
Animal Collective
Campfire Songs
(Paw Tracks)
Street Date: Jan. 26, 2010

1. Queen In My Pictures
2. Doggy
3. Two Corvettes
4. Moo Rah Rah Rain
5. De Soto De Son

Comments (50)

Hmm this seems too good to be true. Perhaps some sort of b-sides or singles collection? I was thinking we'd see another Panda Bear album before we saw a new Animal Collective album. Don't get me wrong: I'm wiping off a hot steaming glop of white strawberry man jam off my bold green colored American Apparel briefs as we speak with my trusty cum rag, but I expected Animal Collective to take their time with the next album. MPP was great and should be on top of many critics list, so why not take the rest of the year easy?

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 3:05 PM

I just preordered it! I'll buy anything that says Animal Collective on it!!!!

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 3:07 PM

That was the greatest post title BV has ever had.

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 3:08 PM

Not only do I have it already, I've already dismissed it as not being as good as their past efforts.

Posted by soy salami | October 7, 2009 3:11 PM

couldn't agree with 3:08 more.

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 3:14 PM

Anyone go to that Animal Collective show at Prospect Park last year? That had to be the least fun thing that I've ever done in a park.

Posted by Paul | October 7, 2009 3:24 PM

^^^ That's for sure, rent boy.

Posted by soy salami | October 7, 2009 3:28 PM

@3:05 - get a life

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 3:32 PM

i think its the EP to accompany MPP that has been referred to as "Brother Sport EP". Amazon doesn't have it listed and its rumored to be out by the end of the year.

Speculated to include:
What Would I Want Sky
Grace
From a Beach

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 3:33 PM

regardless of truth (god i hope!)
it seems a recurring issue w amazon posting items that do not actually exist, or at least not yet
they should get their shit right w the labels as not to confuse

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 3:37 PM

"Anyone go to that Animal Collective show at Prospect Park last year? That had to be the least fun thing that I've ever done in a park.

Posted by Paul | October 7, 2009 3:24 PM"

Really paul, that was the least fun thing huh? I went and thought it was great. The least fun thing i have ever done in a park was last summer when i fucked your mom there, Paul, The bitch would not shut up going on and on about what a lame fucking tool her son was.Finally had to bust in her eye to shut her up.

And look at all you wetting your pants. This is not a new album but yes the ep that has been rumored for months. Note the price. The next full length release from the boys is the visual album

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 4:05 PM

MPP still sucks are you serious

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 4:07 PM

Hey Anonymous 4:05 PM, do you mean the EP that they've been storing in your butthole all these months? I can't way to they get that out.

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 4:07 PM


UPDATE 2 is FAKE
anyone can edit the header of domino!!!!!!
http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/7184/screenshot20091007at417.png

Posted by J | October 7, 2009 4:19 PM

that top 200 list was bullshit. tool's "lateralus" wasn't on there, neither was mars volta's "deloused in the comatorium." also omitted midlake's "van occupanther," any aphex twin effort, or any squarepusher effort. and probably a bunch of other records better than some of the stuff they put on that list.

pitchfork likes a certain type of music, which is fine, but they should call it "pitchfork's favorite 200 albums of the 2000s." it's, well, pretentious to pretend that they are the arbiters of what is objectively good. same goes for other music mags.

Posted by fuck_pitchfork | October 7, 2009 4:19 PM

@4:19---tool and mars volta aren't on there because both bands are two of the worst modern rock bands of our time

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 4:25 PM

Thanks J. Update 3 added!

Posted by brooklynvegan | October 7, 2009 4:27 PM

AC is fine and all, but seriously - i want the dirt on this jawbox reunion.

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 4:31 PM

an anybody get excited over a band on this blog without out it offending somebody's taste and acting like a prick? not sure if it is possible

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 4:37 PM

to be clear, this will be an ep of leftovers from MPP era -- songs they played on tour but didn't get a chance to record.

Posted by geoff | October 7, 2009 4:40 PM

Geoff:
YOU'RE A DOLPHIN, YOU SHOULDN'T BE ON THE INTRNT
YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE FINGERS, HOW CAN YOU CAN'T EVEN TYPE?!

p.s. if you subtract the 2 f's
multiply it by 23.844
divide by 2
add some strawberry jam
etc.

Geoff = actually GEOlogist

Posted by A/S/L? from Collected Animals | October 7, 2009 4:45 PM

Leak above is FAKE - Don't bother!

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 4:51 PM

A/S/L?:

hey man, it's been awhile.

Posted by Ed Droste | October 7, 2009 4:52 PM

Oh hai, Ed Droste
Sup girl?

Posted by A/S/L? from Collected Animals | October 7, 2009 4:56 PM

yeah this title clearly shows once again that BV is just becoming like pitchfork, promoting its own selection of band ...

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 4:58 PM

"Leak above is FAKE - Don't bother!"

Shut up
You're probably the Web Sheriff
Probably can't get the link down in time so you're spreading rumors about it being fake

Posted by A/S/L? from Collected Animals | October 7, 2009 4:58 PM

Wow, this probably the best EP they'eve ever released
THANKS A/S/L? from Collected Animals!!!

Posted by J | October 7, 2009 5:00 PM

this is one of the dumbest posts on this site. i don't care.

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 5:01 PM

woah man, this new sound, it's unlike anything i've heard before in my life..and i'm ed droste.

Posted by Ed Droste | October 7, 2009 5:08 PM

"yeah this title clearly shows once again that BV is just becoming like pitchfork, promoting its own selection of band ..."

If you didn't get that the headline was a JOKE, well then you didn't get it.

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 5:08 PM

Who let all the kids in this post?

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 5:09 PM

Ya guise, this is srs.

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 5:13 PM

"yeah this title clearly shows once again that BV is just becoming like pitchfork, promoting its own selection of band ..."

huh?

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 5:24 PM

FUCKING AMAZING!!!!!! Thanks AC!!!! Really brings me back!!!!!

Heeeyyyy Yooooooo!!!!!!

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 5:25 PM

I already knew this, but it's official. Animal Collective fans are young, immature, Internet geeks.

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 5:29 PM

They said they were putting out an EP before the end of the year, as they have as followups to their last few full-lengths...I assume that's what this is.

Dude raving about Pitchfork - how much music did Aphex put out this decade anyway? Druqks, the Analord series and the Tuss EP's? If you can't figure out why those wouldn't be regarded as among the top 200 albums of an entire decade you've got more problems than Pitchfork does...I agree they should've found room for Lataralus, but their hatred for Mars Volta is well-known, and shared by many many people, including me. Aphex & Squarepusher are decidedly 90's artists who haven't done much of consequence this decade...just because you only like a narrow subset of music doesn't mean you're right & they're wrong. Though the amount of whitebread inoffensive singer-songwriter crap on their list was pretty overwhelming...

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 5:35 PM

Van Occupanther is great though. Midlake just gets no love from Pitchfork. Sound over substance at the PFork offices.

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 5:43 PM

y'all need to stop arguing and listen to the fucking EP already
http://www.mediafire.com/?ytmxc4k2qzm

Posted by Dave | October 7, 2009 5:44 PM

Anyone that clicks on any of the mediafire links in this thread are dumb.

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 5:51 PM

no but seriously, its really fucking good

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 6:08 PM

very impressive fake, down to the cover and all. great job!

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 6:12 PM

i think ultravisitor (a 2004 release) by squarepusher and supermodified (a 2000 release) and out from out where, both by amon tobin, should've been on the list. notwist made the list, and avalanche made the top 10 (inspired ranking by the way). so pitchfork doesn't hate all electronic music. not sure what gave on leaving those guys out.

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 7:18 PM

i think deloused and frances by the mars volta could both be in a top 20 albums of the decade list. however, it's obvious that pitchfork hates them and wouldnt put them there. ironically they omitted q and not u entirely despite the fact that it could be argued that the rapture and lcd sorta jacked their sound. also horses in the sky by silver mt zion should have gotten some love.

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 7:49 PM

5:29- I hate to agree with you, but there seems to be truth to that.

I noticed AC has many young fans, but I honestly feel a real deep connection with their music. i jsut think theres a lot of really cool things going on and they have a huge wall of sound- like in Feels. I love getting high and listening to Animal Collective. puts me in a psychedelic world


not sure about their fans though, but when i saw AC in Israel- everyone there was older than 21 and the place was packed. Fucking amazing show too. Comfy in Nautica was mind blowing .

cant wait to hear this ep!

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 10:02 PM

just delete this whole WORTHLESS thread already, jeesh!

Posted by Anonymous | October 7, 2009 10:44 PM

i bet it's a 'christmas' type album .....

Posted by Anonymous | October 8, 2009 10:12 AM

I'm impressed by how fucking retarded most of you yazbots are.

Posted by Anonymous | October 8, 2009 11:06 AM

Everything Mars Volta has done since has been absolutely terrible, BUT Deloused was one of the finest records of its time and it is still a fine record. Certainly way fucking better than any bloopy goopy open-up-your-open-up-your-open-up-your-throat bullsheeeeet...

Posted by Anonymous | October 8, 2009 11:10 AM

stuoid

Posted by Anonymous | October 21, 2009 12:01 PM

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