Animal Collective

The legendary Animal Collective make their highly anticipated return for their only headline UK date outside of ATP!

Universally acclaimed and Brit Nominated, Domino’s experimental rock band, Animal Collective, have transcended the everyday realities of numbers, locations and people and arrived at a spectacular, unique place to produce music that makes the same beautiful sense on headphones by day, or soundtracking the small hours of the morning / night, or, you suspect, stretched out in a field on your back. With members located in different continents, Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Deakin (who after a sabbatical will be flying in for this show!) and Geologist, having operated in their unique way since their inception, have now arrived at a point where their inner logic makes perfect sense on the wide screen. Immediate and blissful, the songs ring out with questions and declarations. Who needs choruses when you can find your own answers in the kaleidoscopic exhilaration of these tracks. It is this pioneer approach to creating atmospheric soundscapes and intense live shows that has won applaud from audiences around the globe and the likes of ATP, who recently invited the band to curate their own festival.

Following the much lauded release of one of the albums of the decade, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective have become something of a talismanic force among both their peers and the bands their working methods have influenced. You’ll hear echoes of everything they’ve recorded to date, especially the mesmeric and melodic repetition of Panda Bear’s last solo opus Person Pitch. The whoops and hollers that have previously held together the sublime, chaotic urgency of their earlier work, now signal the calm sense of euphoria and wonder that ripples through this wide eyed record. As if, by stopping for a moment, the band have caught up with themselves, looked around, smiled, and cut seriously loose. Linear, wild and beautiful, this is the sound of a band waiting, with arms open wide, to tell you about what they’ve found. And it’s something pretty special, and a live experience not to be missed!

Merriweather Post Pavilion “feels like one of the landmark American albums of the century so far.” - Uncut
“A dizzying knees-up that makes most music, indie rock or otherwise, sound both bloodless and pathetically timid.” - Observer Music Monthly

Tickets Available from:
Eastbourne Theatres Box Office: 01323 412000, and in person at Eastbourne Theatres Box Office, Congress Theatre, Carlisle Road, Eastbourne, BN21 4BP.
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