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Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz


Background information
Birth name Leonard Albert Kravitz
Born May 26, 1964
Born place New York City, New York, United States
Genre(s) Rock
Hard Rock
Funk Rock
Neo-psychedelia
R&B
Years active 1988—present
Label(s) Virgin Records
Associated acts Jay-Z
Madonna
Michael Jackson
Slash
Aerosmith
Mick Jagger
David Bowie
Guns N' Roses
Vanessa Paradis
Karl Denson
Dan Dyer
Baha Men
Michael Kamen
Angie Stone
Cree Summer
Lionel Richie
Zoro
Craig Ross
Jazzanova
Draco Rosa
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Animal Collective Showcase New Album

December 4, 2008
Animal Collective Showcase New AlbumGigwise went down to Plastic People in London for a very special invite-only preview of Animal Collective’s eighth album last night (3rd December).

Merriweather Post Pavilion’, as the record is titled, will already sound familiar to those who have witnessed Animal Collective live in 2008, with much of it made up from retitled set material performed this year.

From first listen ‘Merriweather’ steps away from the pop sensible inflections of 2007’s ‘Strawberry Jam’, which induced a bit of a panic amongst fans that AC were becoming more commercial.

Instead it shows shades of minimalist techno, especially in album closer ‘Brothersport’, perhaps the closest AC have ever come to dance music.

This is overlaid with their familiarly strong preoccupation for fuzzy psychedelia, realised through much lo-fi production and down tempo 8-bit.

‘Merriweather’ follows in a more experimentalist vein that might be best described as garage electronica, much like contemporary releases from fellow avant garde noise proponents Deerhunter and TV On The Radio, which will likely delight long-time fans of AC’s ability to push through accepted generic form.

‘Merriweather Post Pavilion’ will be released on Domino in 2009.

(by Hazel Sheffield)



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