Oddballs

ODDSAC is the, well, odd name of the industrious Animal Collective‘s forthcoming new 54 minute long “visual album”, where a brand new Animal Collective score is set against the dark and twisted visual imaginings of filmmaker Danny Perez. You may already be familiar with the work of Mr Perez from his intense video backdrops to complement the respective Black Dice and Panda Bear live experiences. If not, this short and definitely not sweet trailer should give you some idea of what to expect:

The DVD is slated for release “in the summer”, but those impatient souls who can’t wait that long can hunt down one of the many screening and Q&A; combo deals featuring the director and members of Animal Collective, and maybe even a guest DJ after party to boot (lucky old Londoners get a DJ set from the Collective themselves). The full bumper list of American sessions is available on the ODDSAC website, whilst Europeans will have to hope they live near one of the locations below:

13th May: ICA, London, UK (18.30, 20.30, 22.30)
14th May: Mint Lounge, Manchester, UK (18.00, 20.00)
15th May: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK (15.00, 17.00)
18th May: Berlin Babylon (Rosa Luxembourg Str. 30) (21.00)
19th May: Uebel und Gefeahrlich, Hamburg, Germany (20.00)
21st May: Smart Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands (20.00)

Meanwhile, those of you eagerly awaiting a hard copy of the truly awesome new Panda Bear material unveiled at his recent date in London (and beyond) will be as disappointed as I was to read that Pitchfork reckons it won’t be out until September (and Paw Tracks won’t give us anything more specific than a will hopefully be released this year), on an album called ‘Tomboy’ (this much is true – and there are T-shirts to prove it). A couple of those songs in particular are just the thing that James has been looking for for his DJ sets; but I guess that he, like the rest of us, will just have to wait patiently until September, contenting ourselves with the ODDSAC Animal Collective visual fix in the meantime. Sometimes life is just not fair.