Animal Collective Announce Merriweather Post Pavilion Tour Dates

Having previously illuminated the imminent arrival of Merriweather Post Pavilion, free-noise menagerie turned globetrotting pop-tribalist heroes Animal Collective have cobbled together a tour.

The sometime New Yorkers have already unveiled the LP's psychedelic, optical-illusory artwork, and recently staged a good old-fashioned in-the-flesh 'listening party' to drum up the good gossip on Merriweather Post Pavilion whilst protecting themselves from any chance of pre-release file-leakage.

Now, if all goes to venue-booked plan, Animal Collective's ninth studio album —due on January 20 on the Domino Record Co— shall be supported in a live fashion. Come 2009, the shape-shifting quartet will stop in at the below litany major cities of the Northern Hemisphere to blow the minds of entirely suspecting locals.

Animal Collective Tip Off the Ought-Nine:
January 12: London, England - Koko
January 13: Glasgow, Scotland - Glasgow School of Arts
January 14: Manchester, England - Club Academy
January 15: Brighton, England - Concorde 2
January 16: Paris, France - Bataclan
January 17: Leuven, Belgium - Stuk
January 18: Berlin, Germany - Postbanhof
January 20: New York, NY - Grand Ballroom
January 22: Chicago, IL - Metro
January 23: Los Angeles, CA – Henry Fonda