To support their ninth full-length, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective will play a few scattered gigs early next year in the States. After some shows across the Atlantic, the band will play NYC on January 20th (which is the release date for the record). Also, I’m not sure if the album cover is suppose to move like that, but shit man, it’s giving me a migraine. Wait, IS it moving? Oh god, what’s happening to me? I’m losing my mind. Curse you Animal Collective!

(Cough) Um, read after the jump for the dates.