Animal Collective, who formed in Baltimore and are now based New York, are a collection of avant-garde musicians consisting of Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deakin (Josh Dibb) and Geologist (Brian Weitz).
The band met in school and started recording from an early age. With musical influences ranging from The Cure to the soundtracks of horror movies such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Shining, they soon began to experiment in their music, creating walls of drones with guitars and delay pedals and screaming into mics. Slowly, bit by bit, their music came closer to the sounds that we now recognise as the Animal Collective’s.
When the experimental and psychedelic pop of Animal Collective collides with the vision of the Philadelphia-based video artist Danny Perez odd things happen. Since their first collaboration in 2004 (the single Who Could Win a Rabbit), Perez has seemed to have a knack for understanding the band’s darker side – and never is this more prevalent than in this latest project. A project that has taken four years to come to fruition and has been creating a palpable susurration amongst the fans, this long awaited visual album is finally here in the UK.
Full of weird and wonderfully melancholic and trippy imagery, the film introduces the band in a new light, portraying the members as twisted doppleangers, along with a menagerie of haunting images and Stan Brakhage-esque fluttery edit work. There’s an array of sad vampires, whirling balls of fire, killer marshamallows, flaming heads, glittered faces, all put to Animal Collective’s glittering mix of pop rock, experimental noise and a horror movie soundtrack-style of music.
Showings at 6pm & 8pm / Friday 14 May
Mint Lounge
46-50 Oldham Street
Manchester
M4 1LE
More info from http://ohproductions.co.uk/
posted: 06/05/10filled under: Eventswords by: Jamie Scahill0 Comments