Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion Due January 2009

This decade, the Baltimore-born, New York-raised, globally-based freak-folk outfit Animal Collective have earned a reputation as one of the most forward-thinking, consistently impressive, utterly unique voices in modern music. Having delivered such classics as 2004's Sung Tongs and last year's brain-meltingly good Strawberry Jam, the quartet have operated at a level above and beyond the artistic pale. And to cap off the oughts, AC have announced details of their latest longplayer.

Entitled Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective's ninth studio album was recorded at Sweet Tea Studios in Oxford, Mississippi (a studio used, of recent, by those moodists of the NYC, The Walkmen). Though, thus far, guarded in equal parts secrecy and mystery, the forthcoming Merriweather Post Pavilion does feature recent live-favorite "Taste." Needless to say, by January 20, 2009, when the Domino Record Co. serves it up to the world, all shall be revealed.

Merriweather Post Pavilion Track List
1. "In The Flowers"
2. "My Girls"
3. "Also Frightened"
4. "Summertime Clothes"
5. "Daily Routine"
6. "Bluish"
7. "Guys Eyes"
8. "Taste"
9. "Lion In A Coma"
10. "No More Runnin"
11. "Brothersport"