Animal Collective have already recorded another album

Last week Animal Collective released their 11th album Time Skiffs, and in a recent interview with Far Out, the group's Deakin confirmed that another album has already been recorded.

Deakin said, "Yeah, we actually already recorded the next record. We recorded it in December. I think it was about 18 songs that we had ready to go in the studio before lockdown started and before the pandemic happened."

He added, "I’m super proud of Time Skiffs and I’m really excited about it, but I’m also almost more excited about the next thing. Not because it’s better, it’s just different. The fresh thing is always going to feel the most exciting, but it’s all kind of part of the same era, basically. It’s just, because of the pandemic it kind of got split up in this unusual way."

On the potential release date for the next record, Deakin said, "We don’t have a set in stone plan for the next record, but it’s all been recorded and hopefully it will be mixed in the next few months. And I would assume that that means that it’ll be coming out in some form, whether it’s as just the next album or an album with an EP. I’m not really sure, but I would imagine that will be coming out within a year’s time, I would hope. Maybe early next year."