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Okay, no more monkeying around. No more people-pitching or ill-fated tape-flipping experiments. The post-millenial fab four have reconvened, the masks are off, the tour's begun, and Animal Collective have, at long last, revealed the details surrounding their rather wildly-anticipated new LP.

Thanks to reader Kevin C. Card for pointing out a post on the Animal Collective board Collected Animals, which offered the new album's title, Strawberry Jam (yum!), and tracklist. The information has been confirmed by the band's publicist.

Strawberry Jam arrives at some point in September (no exact date yet) via new Collective zoo Domino, and includes nine tracks sure to incite much mind-expanding (and, eh, probably a due share of head-scratching). This latest menagerie of tunes follows up 2005's Feels and January's People EP, and it does indeed include electronics-fried, carousel-death-trip "Cuckoo Cuckoo" (formerly just "Cuckoo"), which the quartet has been testing live of late. It was recorded at Wavelab in Tuscon, Arizona with Scott Colburn, who also worked on Feels and People (not to mention a little record called Neon Bible by some other band whose name we forget), as well as at the Rare Book Room in Brooklyn with Nicholas Vernhes.

The Crayola commercial stars' U.S. travels bring them to Chicago tonight, while Panda Bear teases most of the world with four East Coast date in June.

Strawberry Jam tracklist:

01 Peacebone
02 Unsolved Mysteries
03 Chores
04 For Reverend Green
05 Fireworks
06 #1
07 Winter Wonder Land
08 Cuckoo Cuckoo
09 Derek

Fauna unleashed:

05-17 Chicago, IL - Metro #
05-18 Iowa City, IA - The Picador #
05-19 Omaha, NE - Sokol Underground #
05-20 Lawrence, KS - The Granada Theatre #
05-21 Denver, CO - Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom #
05-22 Salt Lake City, UT - In the Venue #
05-24 Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad #
05-25 Marfa, TX - The Marfa Ballroom #
05-26 Dallas, TX - The Granada Theater #
05-27 Austin, TX - Antone's #
05-28 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree #
05-29 Knoxville, TN - Bijou Theatre #
05-30 Charlottesville, VA - Satellite Ballroom #
06-01 New York, NY - South Street Seaport (Seaport Music Festival) *
07-11 London, England - The Coronet ^
07-19-22 Valencia, Spain - Benicàssim Festival

# with Sir Richard Bishop
* with Danielson
^ with Marnie Stern

Panda Bear uncaged:

06-18 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
06-21 Baltimore, MD - Ottobar *
06-22 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church *#
06-23 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom *$

* with Scott Mou
# with Tickley Feather
$ with Eric Copeland