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Just as was suspected, Merriweather Post Pavilion is indeed the full-length studio follow-up to Animal Collective's excellent 2007 long-player Strawberry Jam, as confirmed in today's official press release on the matter.

The disc, which will feature the tunes mentioned in the now-official tracklist rundown from earlier today (one update: "Brother Sport" is now "Brothersport"), is due January 20 in CD, double LP, and digital formats from Domino. It was laid to tape at Oxford, Mississippi's Sweet Tea Recording Studio, with old pal Ben Allen in the engineer's seat. Glad that's settled, then.

Animal Collective hit the road this weekend on their intercontinental fall tour.

Animal Collective:

10-11 Berlin, Germany - Berghain *
10-12 Warsaw, Poland - Fabryka Trzciny *
10-13 Katowice, Poland - Jazz Club Hipnoza *
10-14 Prague, Czech Republic - Archa Theatre *
10-15 Vienna, Austria - Arena *
10-16 Ljubljana, Slovenia - Menza pri Koritu *
10-17 Bratislava, Slovakia - A4 *
10-18 Zagreb, Croatia - Teatat and TD *
10-19 Belgrade, Serbia - Dom Omladine *
10-20 Skopje, Macedonia - Mac MKC *
10-21 Thessaloniki, Greece - Principle Theatre *
10-22 Athens, Greece - Gagarin 205
10-23 Tel Aviv, Israel - Zappa
10-24 Istanbul, Turkey - Babylon
10-25 Valencia, Spain - Greenspace Festival
11-06 Santiago, Chile - Industria Cultural
11-08 São Paulo, Brazil - Planeta Terra Festival
11-09 Buenos Aires, Argentina - La Trastienda
11-13 Lima, Peru - Centro Fundación Telefónica

* with Axolotl