Pitchfork

In 2005, Animal Collective sang about cartoon characters, couples standing naked in the bathroom, purple bottles, and swimming pools. Black Dice broke our ears, but they brought the beats to match. Last year, it all went down a little too easy, relatively speaking, for these kindred groups of NYC chaos-mongers.

But fear not, noiseniks: your heroes have not completely abandoned you for hippie-dom just yet. As Terrestrial Tones, Dave Portner (Avey Tare of Animal Collective) and Eric Copeland (of Black Dice) have come to bring an end to all this smooth palatability.

The duo's third LP, Dead Drunk, is anything but safe. Due out on AC's Paw Tracks label, with the CD version coming March 7, and vinyl following on March 21, the album was recorded while the pair roomed together in Paris last summer. They employed the help of "African food stands, forgotten European pop records, discarded American analog pedals and junk, old Soviet electronics," according to the group's PR. Apparently, flea markets were involved.

Get wasted:

01 Car Fumes
02 The Sailor
03 Gargoyle
04 Plowman
05 Magic Trick
06 Future Train
07 This Weekend Wow