This 12 months has confirmed rife with big-time album anniversary celebrations, together with these from Boris, My Morning Jacket, and Brilliant Eyes. Now, Animal Collective are becoming a member of the festivities with a twentieth anniversary extravaganza for the continually-underrated Feels.
The band’s sixth album will truly be celebrated with two limited-edition codecs due out October seventeenth by way of Domino. Feels twentieth Anniversary (three LPs and two CDs alongside a digital copy) contains the complete album and a nine-track assortment of B-sides and unreleased demos. In the meantime, FEELSLive 04/05 collects MiniDisc recordings from reveals throughout 2004-2005, and shall be obtainable digitally, on cassette, and, you guessed it, MiniDisc.
Feels is an fascinating document for just a few causes. For one, it’s the band’s first as a foursome, with Josh “Deakin” Dibb and Brian “Geologist” Weitz becoming a member of up with Dave “Avey Tare” Portner and Noah “Panda Bear” Lennox. It additionally precedes the band’s “rise” to fame with 2007’s Strawberry Jam and 2009’s Merriweather Submit Pavilion (which earned a particular fifteenth anniversary version simply final 12 months). Due to these details, it’s very a lot a blueprint of the sonic curiosity and ample pleasure that will come to outline AnCO within the 2010s and past. Don’t simply take our phrase for it, although — Leisure Weekly wrote on the time that Feels is “breathlessly giddy and shamelessly trippy,” including, “Someplace up there, John Lennon and Timothy Leary are grinning.” Speak about excessive reward, proper?
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Forward of the re-release, the band have shared a uncommon demo of the album standout “Grass.” Whereas not markedly completely different, this early model is an fascinating snapshot of how AnCo strategy their songs with a eager ear and a beguiling sense of spontaneity. Take heed to it under adopted by the album artwork and tracklists. Pre-order Feels twentieth Anniversary on CD, vinyl, and digitally and/or FEELSLive 04/05 by way of MiniDisc, cassette, and digitally.
AnCo additionally launched new music in 2025: “Collision Deep” (for an Asheville profit comp) and “Love On the Massive Display” (their first tune as a foursome since 2023).
Feels twentieth Anniversary Tracklist:
01. Did You See The Phrases
02. Grass
03. Flesh Canoe
04. The Purple Bottle
05. Bees
06. Banshee Beat
07. Daffy Duck
08. Loch Raven
09. Flip Into One thing
B-sides & demos Tracklist:
01. Should Be Treeman
02. Fickle Cycle
03. Individuals
04. Tikwid
05. My Favourite Colours
06. Banshee Beat (demo)
07. Bees (demo)
08. Grass (demo)
09. Tikwid (demo)
FEELSLive 04/05 Tracklist:
01. Wastered (Stay at Bowery Ballroom 8/15/04)
02. Loch Raven (Stay at Haverford Faculty 4/23/05)
03. Did You See The Phrases Edit (Stay at Haverford Faculty 4/23/05)
04. Fickle Cycle (Stay at Ottobar 11/19/04)
05. Grass (Stay at Ottobar 11/19/04)
06. Daffy Duck (Stay at Ottobar 11/19/04)
07. Flip Into One thing (Stay at Coltrane 4/22/05)
Sponge Luke (Stay at Bowery Ballroom 8/15/04) *
* = Bonus monitor for bodily editions