Every Monday, 88Nine music director Erin Wolf shares a sonic gem she found using her nearly 20 years of new-music exploration experience. You can hear all her discoveries every Sunday on What’s All This: Adventures in New Music.
Panda Bear isn't the only member who’s been dishing out new music from the Animal Collective gang. Animal Collective, themselves, are active again and just shared their first new song of the year.
“Love On the Big Screen” — like an actual big screen — is oversized and in full technicolor. The stompy, cacophony of a single is planned for one half of an official 7-inch for Domino Records set for release Aug. 1, with another new song coming out on that date called “Buddies On the Blackboard.”
While we can’t predict what that one’s going to be like, the single we’ve got to hold us over is a delightful dance of synths and a million squeaks and squiggles to tickle the ears. And it’s pretty perfect for soundtracking a proper Animal Collective summer. Perhaps it also means a full album is cooking? One can only hope.
Hear “Love On the Big Screen” from Animal Collective on the latest episode of What’s All This, which you can check out using the player at the top of the page, and as part of the regular rotation on 88Nine. Be sure to tune in next Sunday and every Sunday for another collection of the latest tracks on What’s All This: Adventures in New Music.
Because of music-licensing rules and out of respect for the artists' efforts to make a living, we pull down the audio for every episode two weeks after its initial airing. You can still find the playlist below, and we ask that you please make every effort to search out music from artists you love, and pay for the songs and albums you REALLY love. Thanks.
Best new indie music this week
- Daffo, “Habit”
- Superchunk, “No Hope”
- The Beths, “No Joy”
- TOPS, “Falling on my Sword”
- Astronauts, etc., “To What End (ft. Tanukichan)”
- Golomb, “Staring”
- The Besnard Lakes, “In Hollywood”
- Animal Collective, “Love On the Big Screen”
- Alex G, “June Guitar”
- Luke Roberts, Kurt Vile, “classic love”
- Mac DeMarco, “Home”
- Akira Kosemura, “The Walking Man (ft. Baths)”
