Animal Collective - RESCHEDULED

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CENTIPEDE Hz is the tenth full length Animal Collective album following the widely celebrated Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009) and also the first since Strawberry Jam (2007) to feature all four original band members: Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist and Deakin. As the album’s opening bars of drum crashes and radio interference on ‘Moonjock’ immediately make clear, having returned as a four piece, Animal Collective have made their most widescreen and fully realized music to date.

Once touring for Merriweather Post Pavilion was concluded at the end of 2009, Animal Collective released their visual album Oddsac on DVD. The film was also screened internationally at theatres and film festivals. The band created Transverse Temporal Gyrus, an installation for the Guggenheim Museum in New York City and subsequently released a 12” single of the performance and launched a website to distribute music from the event. The period between Merriweather Post Pavilion and Centipede Hz also saw the release of two solo albums: Avey Tare’s Down There (2010) and Panda Bear’s Tomboy (2011).

Regrouping as a four piece with original member Deakin once more in the band, Animal Collective reconvened in their native Baltimore in January-March 2011 to write material for Centipede Hz with a further session later in the year. Rather than swapping ideas over the internet and file-sharing Animal Collective were, for the first time in many years, exchanging ideas in the same room by playing live instruments. As a result Panda Bear returned to playing a sit-down drum kit for the first time since Here Comes The Indian (2003) and Geologist began playing live keyboards again. Along with using some of the samplers and sequencers with which they had previously been writing, the sound of Centipede Hz draws on the dynamics and energy of Animal Collective playing together as a band. The return of Deakin is at its most marked in ‘Wide Eyed’, a song that he wrote, featuring his first ever lead-vocal performance and whose title captures the mood of Centipede Hz perfectly.

Part of the inspiration for Centipede Hz included the band’s memories of growing up listening to station announcements and commercials on the radio and imagining the after life of radio signals from the past, forgotten transmissions that are now lost in space and broadcasting music from other planets for other life forms. This is reflected in the sound of Centipede Hz, which features the white noise of radio interference and buried frequencies overlaid with the band’s peerless melodic sensibilities and compositional methods. The result is a panoramic set of songs that shimmer with the confidence and wonder of Animal Collective’s unique inner logic and the luminous warmth of their sound world.

Venue Details

Address
13 North 400 West
Salt Lake City, UT 84101

Directions
Driving from North on I15
Take 400 South off ramp (heading East)
Turn left on 400 West (heading North)
The Depot main entrance is on the corner of South Temple and 400 West on the West side of the road under the marquee

Driving from South on I15
Take 600 South off ramp (heading East)
Turn left on 400 West (heading North)
The Depot main entrance is on the corner of South Temple and 400 West on the West side of the road under the marquee

Driving from West on I80
Take 600 South off ramp (heading East)
Turn left on 400 West (heading North)
The Depot main entrance is on the corner of South Temple and 400 West on the West side of the road under the marquee

Driving from East on I80
Take I15 Northbound
Take 600 South off ramp (heading East)
Turn left on 400 West (heading North)
The Depot main entrance is on the corner of South Temple and 400 West on the West side of the road under the marquee

Using TRAX
TRAX is also available to and from all events. Exit TRAX at the Arena station on South Temple across from EnergySolutions Arena.

Parking
Pay lot across 400 West, Gateway paid parking (we do not validate), street parking

Public Transportation
TRAX, UTA Bus, Taxi service

Box Office Numbers
801.456.2800 or 801.355.5522 if box office does not pickup

Box Office Hours
5pm – 10pm show nights (excluding private events and club nights), Friday’s from 2pm – 6pm (excluding holidays).

Types of Payment Accepted
American Express, Visa, Discover, MasterCard, Cash

Will Call
Must have a valid photo ID to pick up your will call tickets

General Rules
The Depot is 21+ unless otherwise stated
Must have a valid photo ID to enter the building

For ALL AGES shows,  
INFORMATION REGARDING MINORS:
Patrons 18 years of age and younger are welcome to our ALL AGES shows when accompanied by a parent or guardian that is over the age of 18.  Age information will specified for each show.  Additionally, because of Utah’s curfew law any ALL AGES show has to be over by 11 o’clock P.M. (unless otherwise stated).