Animal Collective Return With “FloriDada” Off Their New Album Painting With

Animal Collective’s upcoming 11th studio album is titled Painting With and is due February 19, 2016 on Domino records.

Word was that the audio was best in the bathrooms, so if you walked into a restroom at Baltimore Airport and were shocked to find a few men huddled near the sinks and whispering in hushed voices about the weird musak, that’s the reason.

Or not. Maybe you were never that into them and really didn’t get it. If you relate to the above, though, then the new AnCo single “FloriDada” will definitely, maybe make you smile, especially if you weren’t paying attention the last couple of years.

Dizzyingly upbeat and gloriously realized, their new LP bounces and pops with an urgent, ecstatic energy, propelled by polyrhythmic beats and gurgling modular synth, with Noah Lennox and Dave Portner’s vocals gleefully falling in and out of syncopation and off-kilter harmony.

“FloriDada” picks up where the band left off on 2012’s Centipede Hz with less reverb. The three met up in Asheville during that Spring and began exploring the songs together. More info and pre-orders here. “A limited deluxe LP of Painting With includes an exclusive 7″ featuring two non-album tracks, zoetropic 12” turntable slipmat and download card, with one of the three cover variations designed by Brian DeGraw.