Animal Collective "What Would I Want Sky?"

Animal Collective will cap off the year the way they started, in the news and in your ear. The trio will release EP Fall Be Kind on December 15. "What Would I Want Sky?" (first track to hit the web) has been part of AC's set list this Spring/Summer/Fall. The song starts with an extensive intro of drum breaks and roller coaster clanking (as heard in Panda Bear's remix of Santogold's "Lights Out"), however, it emerges and reaches out into the wide open where the air is fresh and crisp. The track is the first song to sample the Greatful Dead and manipulates the original lyric "Willow sky/Whoa, I walk and wonder why" to hit your ears as "What Would I Want Sky?" Humbled and submissive to that greater force, we often look to the sky for answers. While AC poses the question, their ingenuity and consistent creativity makes them near powerful enough to answer most of their own inquisitions.

Animal Collective:: What Would I Want Sky?

[via Fader]