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Animal Collective announce new album celebrating reefs
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 18 July 2018
Animal Collective have announced a new audiovisual album, ‘Tangerine Reef’, to commemorate the International Year Of The Reef. That’s this year, by the way. Hence the release. Best to get in now while there are still coral reefs to celebrate, I guess.
The band’s connection to the subject is more than passing. Brian Weitz, aka Geologist, has a masters degree in environmental policy with a focus on the marine environment. He and bandmate Josh Dibb, aka Deakin, are also keen scuba divers, and have seen first hand the destruction of the world’s coral reefs by bleaching events, fishing trawlers and dynamite fishing.
The visual side of the project has been developed with art-science duo Coral Morphologic. It features time-lapse photography and slow motion pans across sections of coral reef.
The album is due out on 17 Aug. Watch a trailer here:
