Here Comes the Indian

VINYL FORMAT. The Animal Collective have teamed up with Carpark Records to form a record label: Paw Tracks. So the members of the collective (Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Deaken, and Geologist) now have a home base from which to communicate. The first release is titled "Here Comes the Indian," and the sound is everywhere and nowhere. Informed by the psychedelic freak-outs of '90s west coast isolationists like Caroliner and Sun City Girls, the emotional hooks and bursts of punk, the textures and structures of minimal techno (a la the Kompakt label), the earthiness of sixties utopians Amon Duul and Can, and the organic looseness of the best of the free and improvised music world, the Animal Collective simply cannot be pinned down.