

Animal Collective have teamed up with the apparel company Keep to design their own line of sneakers, which ship tomorrow to those who have pre-ordered them. Sales of the shoes benefit the Socorro Island Conservation Fund, an organization that works to preserve the the Revillagigedo Archipelago off California's coast. Each pair of pre-ordered shoes comes with a cassette tape (pictured above) that features one previously unreleased song from each of Animal Collective's four members.
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Panda Bear's contribution to the tape, "
The Preakness", named for the horse race and excuse to party that makes Baltimore, Animal Collective's hometown, just a little bit drunker once a year. With its dazed vocals and warped synthetic beat, the track is vintage Panda Bear.
The Preakness, c'est le nom d'une course de chevals qui a lieu chaque année sur l'hippodrome de Pimlico, un quartier de Batlimore, le fief du gang révolutionnaire. Doivent prendre une drôle d'allure, les chevals, avec pareille élégie défoncée stagnante à leurs trousses. Allez courrez les petits chevals, courrez !