Painting With
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Portrait of Avey Tare, one of three variations of the album's front cover.
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| Studio album by Animal Collective | ||||
| Released | February 19, 2016 | |||
| Recorded | 2015 | |||
| Studio | EastWest Studios, Hollywood | |||
| Genre | Psychedelic pop | |||
| Length | 41:02 | |||
| Label | Domino | |||
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| Geologist cover | ||||
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| Panda Bear cover | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 69/100 |
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| AllMusic |   |
| DIY Mag | |
| Drowned in Sound | 5/10 |
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| Mojo | |
| Pitchfork | 6.2/10 |
| Pretty Much Amazing | B+ |
| Slant | |
| Spin | 8/10 |
| Uncut | |
Painting With is the tenth studio album by American experimental pop band Animal Collective, released on February 19, 2016. The album is a follow-up to Centipede Hz (2012), and features contributions from John Cale and Colin Stetson. Three singles have been issued from the album: "FloriDada" (2015), "Lying in the Grass", and "Golden Gal" (both 2016).
For Painting With, the band's line-up consists of Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), and Geologist (Brian Weitz), the same trio which participated for Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009).Deakin (Josh Dibb), who had rejoined the band in November 2010 for Centipede Hz, and toured with them from 2011 to 2013, is absent.
After touring for Centipede Hz (2012), the band felt stressed out, and retreated to individual side-projects. David Portner (Avey Tare) formed Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) recorded his fifth solo album Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper (2015), and Brian Weitz (Geologist) took care of his newborn daughter for the latter half of 2014. In early 2015, Lennox confirmed that the band would be returning to the studio to record a new album, while Portner intimated in April: "Yeah, over the past few months I've been writing some songs. I think we're starting to have a group of songs that we're thinking about recording."
In May 2015, Animal Collective began writing and rehearsing new material at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville, North Carolina and EastWest Studios, Hollywood. The band recorded in the Studio 3 room at EastWest, the same room used by Brian Wilson for the Beach Boys' albums Pet Sounds (1966) and Smile. The album was subsequently mixed at Gang Recording Studio in Paris, France with Sonny DiPerri. Portner called it "incredible" to record in EastWest: "You really understand that there is an art that goes into building rooms like that. It’s no surprise so many good records have been created there. I think [EastWest’s original constructor] Bill Putnam was a genius." Weitz recalls that while at EastWest: "The guys would deliver [instruments to us] ... they'd be like, 'This was used in Planet of the Apes. These metal rods that make these singing tones' … they're like 'These are from the Poltergeist soundtrack."
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