Animal Collective

New Music Weekly is your one-stop shop for new releases in the world of music each and every week. From the best of the best to some of the rest, Mark Conroy is here to give you the low down on what you might have missed. This week:…

No one can accuse Tamara Schlesinger of remaining idle for long. Before a career in music, Schlesinger used to represent Scotland in international gymnastics and then moved onto the radically different world of fashion design until she…

Animal Collective’s strange and sublime Strawberry Jam turns 10 this week. Even for a band as willfully experimental and consistently eclectic as this, the album stands out as an abrasive anomaly in their discography. It’s a deliberate…

Reunited – and it feels so good! Emerging from his period of convalescence with a brand new lease on life, Dave Hanratty rejoins Colm O’Regan and Craig Fitzpatrick to consider another week in music. Along the way, they also welcome…

Animal Collective - 'Kinda Bonkers' Following the universal “meh” uttered by the world upon the release of their last album Painting With, Animal Collective have given us a track worthy of our attention. ‘Kinda bonkers’ was recorded…

Welcome to One Track Minded, where we pick a select cut from a chosen act and delve beneath the surface. This time out, Mark Conroy gets lost in a modern pop masterpiece of epic proportions... Ariel Marcus Rosenberg was perhaps just…

Welcome to THE PLAYLIST, where we pick a theme and, er, make a playlist around it. Sometimes you might get an essay, other times you might get just one sentence as a precursor to the laser-focused audio delights that await below. Mark…

Animal Collective Painting With There’s an interesting caution from Animal Collective on ‘The Burglars’, buried in the middle of Painting With - “What you think you own you don’t/ Watch out the burglars.” Is it a reference to sampling…

In One Track Minded, we pick a select cut from a chosen act and delve beneath the surface. Mark Conroy gets lost in Panda Bear's swirling and richly psychedelic 2006 epic, 'Bros'.  A quick Panda Bear history lesson to start us off: When…