{"id":532861,"date":"2023-09-29T16:57:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T06:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/?p=532861"},"modified":"2023-11-23T17:11:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T06:11:53","slug":"animal-collective-on-isnt-it-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/features\/animal-collective-on-isnt-it-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Collective on ‘Isn’t It Now?’, Their Second Album in Two Years \u2013 “We Were Just Really Psyched to Play Together Again”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Animal Collective<\/a> waited six years between the release of their tenth album, Painting With<\/em>, and their eleventh, last year’s Time Skiffs<\/em>. The latter album was recorded remotely while the band’s four members \u2013 Dave Portner (Avey Tare<\/a>), Noah Lennox (Panda Bear<\/a>), Josh Dibb (Deakin) and Brian Weitz (Geologist) \u2013 waited out the Covid pandemic in various cities across North America and Europe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The material on Time Skiffs<\/em> was written and arranged during a three-and-a-half-week session in late 2019. The band members had convened in rural Tennessee, where they rediscovered the joys of playing live together again. The sessions were so fruitful, in fact, that post-Time Skiffs<\/em>, Animal Collective had enough remaining material to throw together their twelfth studio album. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That album, titled Isn’t It Now?<\/em>, is out now via Domino. Created alongside D\u2019Angelo<\/a> engineer Russell Elevado, Isn\u2019t It Now? <\/em>features some of Animal Collective\u2019s most spontaneous and lively recordings in more than a decade. To coincide with its release, Music Feeds <\/em>caught up with keys player and guitarist Deakin, the only Animal Collective member who currently resides in the band’s hometown of Baltimore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Animal Collective – ‘Gem & I’<\/h2>\n\n\n\n