Bearing out rumors that came to light last week, Animal Collective has announced a new double album called Tangerine Reef. The album is an audiovisual collaboration with Coral Morphologic, a duo consisting of a marine biologist and musician that specialize in “avant-garde coral macro-videography.” The 13-track album, due out August 17 on Domino, features the standard Animal Collective lineup, but without Panda Bear. Today, the band has released a comprehensively ambient single from the album—or, as a press statement calls it, “visual tone poem”—called “Hair Cutter,” with an Apple-Music-exclusive video featuring dazzling undersea time-lapse images of coral, sea anemone, and more.
Avey Tare, Deakin, and Geologist played an hour-long set at a so-called “Coral Orgy” event in Florida last year, and performed as part of a two-night interactive music installation in New Orleans earlier this year. You can check out the video for “Hair Cutter” here via Apple Music. Listen to the single, and check out a trailer for Tangerine Reef, along with its cover and track list (get ready for AnCo’s “Inspector Gadget”), below.
https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/2vU5ZUqdwnwSVIngRGYCz2
1. Hair Cutter
2. Buffalo Tomato
3. Inspector Gadget
4. Buxom
5. Coral Understanding
6. Airpipe (To A New Transition)
7. Jake And Me
8. Coral By Numbers
9. Hip Sponge
10. Coral Realization
11. Lundsten Coral
12. Palythoa
13. Best Of Times (Worst Of All)
