Animal Collective share New Single “Walker”

Animal Collective release their new single “Walker” today via a music video directed by Abby and Dave Portner. “Mostly “Walker” is a tribute to Scott Walker who passed away around the time I began writing the song,” Noah Lennox said in an interview with Zane Lowe. “Scott’s music has meant a lot to me and he’ll always be a big inspiration. But there’s also a kind of exhaustion and resignation to the singer of “Walker” that belies a darker layer.” “Walker” and the previously released single “Prester John” will appear on Animal Collective’s new album Time Skiffs, due out Feb 4, 2022 on Domino. The group goes on a U.S. tour in March of 2022 featuring support by L’Rain.

As described by director Abby Portner: "It was so much fun to collaborate with Dave on this video, there were so many drawings and phone calls back and forth about how to make the record cover come to life and so much experimenting with movements of the band and acrobats to figure out how to get the flow right. I have never been on a set with so much excitement and clapping after takes when it all fell into place. It was such a warm, hard working crew of people helping us figure out how to make it all happen, and is one of my favorite directing experiences ever."

Time Skiffs, the quartet’s first studio album in more than half a decade, feels like listening in on a conversation among four old friends, just as it felt during their inchoate early days or their Strawberry Jam heyday. These nine songs are love letters, distress signals, en plein air observations, and relaxation hymns, the collected transmissions of four people who have grown into relationships and parenthood and adult worry. But they are rendered with Animal Collective’s singular sense of exploratory wonder, same as they ever were. There are harmonies so rich you want to skydive through their shared air, textures so fascinating you want to decode their sorcery, rhythms so intricate you want to untangle their sources. Here is Animal Collective past 20, still in search of what’s next.

Animal Collective’s US tour starts in Spring 2022. Full list of dates can be found here.

Time Skiffs will be available on CD, 2xLP, and digitally on Feb 4, 2022. A limited edition deluxe 2xLP on starburst ruby & black vinyl is available to pre-order via the Domino store HERE.