Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll be well aware that Brooklyn’s mighty Animal Collective has come into the zenith of their musical heights in 2009, delivering one of the year’s biggest indie albums with the very genius and critically ravished Merriweather Post Pavilion.

It’s an album of epic, deliriously happy and head-spinning squelchy summery psych-pop proportions that you can bet your bottom dollar will be topping a number of end of year polls and lists. Oz fans have been (rightfully) whingeing and crying Collective tears since 2006 – the last time the band toured for Feels – that they would come back and bestow their live shows on our shores again… Well your prayers have been answered, so don’t say the indie Gods never give you NUTTIN!

The promised ones will be headlining Meredith Music Festival (SOLD OUT!! Most demand for tix they’ve ever had) and HEADLINE shows that you’ll be cursing yourself if you miss out on. So a word to the wise, DON’T and get yourself a ticket when they go on sale next Friday, August 25… for all of two seconds. Presented by Triple J and SPA.

GO GO GO!

Ticketing deets are on our Tours page, but dates are:

• BRISBANE – Thursday 10 December
• SYDNEY – Friday 11 December
• MELBOURNE – Monday 14 December
• PERTH – Thursday 17 December