[Cover photo credit to Hisham Bharoocha]
Experimental Pop band Animal Collective has released new single “Walker” alongside a music video directed by Abby and Dave Portner. “Walker” and the previously released single “Prester John” will appear on Animal Collective’s new album Time Skiffs, due out February 4, 2022 on Domino. The group also goes on a U.S. tour in March of 2022 featuring support by L’Rain.
Director Abby Portner comments on the new video:
“It was so much fun to collaborate with Dave on this video, there were so many drawings and phone calls back and forth about how to make the record cover come to life and so much experimenting with movements of the band and acrobats to figure out how to get the flow right. I have never been on a set with so much excitement and clapping after takes when it all fell into place. It was such a warm, hardworking crew of people helping us figure out how to make it all happen and is one of my favorite directing experiences ever.”
The single “Prester John” also has a recent video:
Time Skiffs will be the quartet’s first studio album in more than five years and the nine songs are described as “love letters, distress signals, en plein air observations, and relaxation hymns”.
Animal Collective Tour Dates with L’Rain
03-08 Richmond, VA – The National
03-09 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
03-11 North Adams, MA – Mass MOCA – Hunter Center
03-12 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
03-13 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
03-15 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
03-16 Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom
03-18 Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre
03-19 Detroit, MI – Majestic Theatre
03-20 Chicago, IL – Vic Theatre
03-21 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
03-23 Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
03-24 Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works
03-25 Knoxville, TN – Big Ears Festival
03-26 Atlanta, GA – The Eastern
07-09 Madrid, Spain – Mad Cool Festival
