Animal Collective: FloriDada

They’re back! Animal Collective’s new animated track “FloriDada” strips away the drone passages and layers of reverbs and aims for something more up-close—almost a cappella like, with some accompaniment from squelchy synths. “Everything seems drenched in reverb these days, and is so distant,” David “Avey Tare” Portner tells Rolling Stone. “In a way, it was a reaction to that.” Painting With, which marks Animal Collective’s …

Robin Pecknold: Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind (The Five Keys Cover)

Out of the blue, Robin Pecknold of the Fleet Foxes releases a fun cover of the 1956 single “Out of Sight, Out of Mind” by the R&B singing group The Five Keys, with the message “happy holidays.” His rendition starts out sweet and nostalgic, before blooming into a dissonant frenzy of banged chords and noise. It feels like a much more realistic interpretation of the …

Erykah Badu: But You Caint Use My Phone

Since releasing her seven-minute take on Hotline Bling and another track “Phone Down,” her R&B highness Erykah Badu has had us waiting impatiently for her mixtape “But You Caint Use My Phone”—for which every song is related to the device that keeps us connected (or not). The Hotline Bling remix is renamed “Cel U Lar Device,” there’s a cover of New Edition’s “Mr Telephone Man” …