Geologist & D.S.—the brand new duo of Animal Collective multi-instrumentalist Brian “Geologist” Weitz and White Magic and Highlife musician Doug Shaw—have introduced a collaborative album: A Shaw Deal is out January 31 by way of Drag City. The primary preview of the duo’s forthcoming document is “Route 9 Falls,” which additionally comes with a trippy music video by Danny Perez wherein the 2 carry out the monitor. Discover it under.
A Shaw Deal started as a birthday current that Geologist made for his longtime pal Doug Shaw, who had been posting movies of his improvisational guitar enjoying on Instagram. Geologist took the classes’ audio and ran it by way of his modular system to indicate his pal. “I didn’t got down to make a Geologist document, or perhaps a document anybody however Doug would hear,” the Animal Collective musician defined in a press release. “I didn’t add any new sounds past what existed, and simply fed the uncooked supplies by way of myself as a potential channel. That approach, I might say, ‘Blissful birthday. You made a document, you simply didn’t comprehend it.’”
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A Shaw Deal:
01 Route 9 Falls
02 Wit of the Watermen
03 Ripper Known as
04 Free Gravel
05 Petticoat
06 Knuckles to Nostrils
07 Avarice Edit
