_Animal Collective To Release ‘Fall Be Kind’ EP in December

Animal Collective seem to be at the climax of their success, both creatively and commercially to the audience. Merriweather Post Pavillion is getting better and better with each listen, but we want to hear something new from them.

“The title ['Fall Be Kind"] is kind of a play on “fall behind,” when you move the clocks back. Everything seems to be very seasonal or weather-oriented for us this year. I wanted to keep it a little bit in line with that. It felt like Merriweather Post Pavilion was really springy or summery.”

Avery Tare revealed that the five-track EP ‘Fall Be Kind’ will be released in December, while a digital release might be released earlier in November. It’s first single is “Brothersport”, which happens to not be in the EP.

“Initially, the idea was to do this Brothersport EP and then have all these other tracks on that. But the way that promotion for records goes, we wanted these other songs to be their own thing. The EP stands on its own away from Merriweather. Not that it’s completely different– I mean, it definitely sounds like it’s us, the same band that did Merriweather. But I think putting “Brothersport” on that EP, with the way our label promotes things, it would have just seemed more like the “Brothersport” single with a bunch of B-sides.”

1. Graze
2. What Would I Want? Sky
3. Bleed
4. On A Highway
5. I Think I Can