Animal Collective announce new album Isn’t It Now?

Today the band shares the album opener “Soul Capturer”. An anthem for our existential online malaise, it calls to mind whatever it is that seduces you—drugs, sex, an old friend you know better than to trust, and absolutely and unequivocally the Internet and how it can make you feel so low about even your absolute highs.

The quartet of Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Deakin, and Geologist recorded Isn’t It Now? with the Grammy-winning producer Russell Elevado (D’Angelo, The Roots, Kamasi Washington), who co-produced and mixed the album.

Isn’t It Now? features the previously released 22-minute epic “Defeat” as well as “King’s Walk” – a track the band has been playing live for the last few years, including at their NPR Tiny Desk (Home) Concert, last year.

In the summer of 2019, Animal Collective rendezvoused in Leiper’s Fork, Tenn., renting a cabin in that bucolic countryside southwest of Nashville. During that literal monthlong residency, they realized they actually had at least two records. The first being 2022’s Time Skiffs, and the second being the forthcoming release, Isn't It Now?, which will be the longest album the band has ever recorded, thanks to "Defeat".

Tracklist:

1. Soul Capturer
2. Genie’s Open
3. Broke Zodiac
4. Magicians From Baltimore
5. Defeat
6. Gem & I
7. Stride Rite
8. All The Clubs Are Broken
9. King’s Walk