January 06, 2009

Animal Collective Listening Party

Animal Collective Listening Party
Tuesday, January 6th - 7:00pm

Today marks the anticipated release of Animal Collective's vinyl version of Merriweather Post Pavilion, which will be followed on CD January 20th. The vinyl is a two-record, 180-gram thing of great beauty, and it's sold out everywhere but here. It comes packaged in a stunning optical illusion gatefold cover and it includes a full album download card. If your collection won't be complete without one, be sure to get here early. We don't expect them to last the night. We also have large posters of the cover image free for anyone who pre-orders the CD (while they last). The listening party will include an enter-to-win contest with prizes including several pairs of tickets to their sold-out LA show at the Fonda Theater/Music Box, plus some vintage show posters, and select catalogue releases.

Merriweather Post Pavilion is the ninth full-length album from Animal Collective, recorded with Ben Allen in Oxford, Mississippi. Animal Collective have made a record that makes the same beautiful sense on headphones by day, or soundtracking the small hours of the morning, or, you suspect, stretched out in a field on your back. Whether a state of mind, or a rest stop somewhere along the way, Merriweather Post Pavilion magnificently redefines your sense of direction.

Click here to buy Merriweather Post Pavilion.