Animal Collective‘s Brian “Geologist” Weitz and Highlife‘s Doug Shaw have announced a collaborative album, A Shaw Deal, which will be out January 31 via Drag City.
The album was almost accidental. During the pandemic, Shaw was posting clips of his guitar-playing on Instagram. Inspired, Geologist, took those, looped them and turned them into something new. “I didn’t set out to make a Geologist record, or even a record anyone but Doug would hear,” Weitz says. “I didn’t add any new sounds beyond what existed, and just fed the raw materials through myself as a possible channel. That way, I could say, ‘Happy birthday. You made a record, you just didn’t know it.’”
You can listen to trippy opening track “Route 9 Falls,” and the video by Danny Perez, which warps the original Instagram videos Shaw made, to mind-bending effect.
A Shaw Deal
1. Route 9 Falls
2. Wit Of The Watermen
3. Ripper Called
4. Loose Gravel
5. Petticoat
6. Knuckles To Nostrils
7. Avarice Edit