Celebrated American rock group Animal Collective could be set to release an expansive box set.
Since the release of ‘Merriweather Post Pavillion’ earlier this year, Animal Collective have suddenly found themselves thrust into the spotlight. Dripping in critical praise, the album has been widely hailed as a landmark in American music.
If that kind of statement puts you off, don’t worry – ‘Merriweather Post Pavillion’ is actually brilliant fun, a chaotic collision of influences that effortlessly reaches somewhere new, fresh and untrodden.
A box set gathering the less celebrated aspects of the group’s back catalogue has long been rumoured, but it seems it may now happen. A test pressing has appeared on Ebay, which is being auctioned on charity.
Titled ‘Animal Crack Box’ the 3xLP set the box set contains live recordings from throughout the band’s career. Apparently produced by Catsup Plate, here’s what the online listing has to say:
“We never know what to do with test pressings here at Catsup Plate. Fairly soon after we approve them we have commercial copies of the record, so the test pressing usually go into a box somewhere. Save them for the grandkids or something like that.”
“For our upcoming 3LP boxed set of live and unreleased Animal Collective music, entitled Animal Crack Box, we’ve decided to do something a bit more positive with a set of the test pressings and offer them up for auction with 100% of proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, a Nobel Peace Prize winning medical humanitarian organization who do a tremendous job in offering impartial and non-political help to victims of violence, neglect, or catastrophe around the world.”
