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Update: Domino have now announced the album's tracklist, which you can read below.

On Animal Collective's website, there's the below video that announces that the band's follow-up to 2009's Merriweather Post Pavilion is called Centipede Hz and will be out in September on Domino. The video also offers a list of words and phrases that may or may not make up the tracklist on the album. Listen to two new Animal Collective songs, "Honeycomb" and "Gotham", here.

Centipede Hz:

01 Moonjock
02 Today's Supernatural
03 Rosie Oh
04 Applesauce
05 Wide Eyed
06 Father Time
07 New Town Burnout
08 Monkey Riches
09 Mercury Man
10 Pulleys
11 Amanita

The Sun says it's the most boring music video ever. We're more charitable about this Albarn loveliness

It's hard to know whether the world really needs another side project from Damon Albarn, seeing as he's already in Blur, Rocket Juice & the Moon (with Flea and Tony Allen) and has never really confirmed what's happening with the Good, the Bad & the Queen (or whatever they were officially called). All that on top of making new songs with Gorillaz,
recording musicians in the Congo and producing albums for the likes of Bobby Womack. To be fair, this new "solo" project is actually an album of songs from last year's Dr Dee: An English Opera, which included a handful of folk-tinged musings by Albarn dedicated to John Dee, the 16th-century mathematician, scientist, magician, spy and, in his later life, communicator with celestial beings. While each new project initially appears to be some giant leap into the unknown for Albarn, within each different venture is a strand that can be traced back to something else he's done. So, while his work with Gorillaz influenced 2007's Monkey: Journey to the West â€' both in terms of the visual designs and the music â€' the songs of Dr Dee take the lyrical thread of his love of England (see all of Parklife) and intertwines it with the story of one of England's great thinkers. The lovely The Marvelous Dream is the first song to...

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For his latest solo show, the Danish artist pits monkey opposite man at the V1 Gallery in Copenhagen

Sometimes a creative idea or concept is so fascinating, so full of creative potential, it is worth revisiting and exploring some more. This is exactly the thinking behind Danish artist Troels Carlsen's latest exhibition, Sipping from the Mirrors, at the V1 Gallery in Copenhagen. The collection of lithographs form a collection that has never been seen outside Basel before and highlights the skilful, unique detailing and distinctive style the artist has perfected throughout his acclaimed career. For Carlsen the exhibition is a chance to explore ideas of humanity, nature and duality, incorporating his early creative ... article continues »
       
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Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Jon Dennis salutes the sprawling variety of the Beatles' double album

I first heard the White Album on Christmas Day 1978. I was shocked. I immediately phoned my best friend Louis and demanded he abandon his family and come over to listen to it right away. "No Elvis, Beatles and the Rolling Stones in 1977," the Clash had declared on the B-side of White Riot. But in the late 70s, just as contemporary pop music was moving out from the shadow of the 60s and getting interesting again, we'd been discovering the Beatles. We'd devoured their red and blue double-album compilations, as well as Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road. But nothing had really prepared us for the White Album.

The White Album is year zero. For a start, there's the blank sleeve, designed by the late Richard Hamilton. It gave nothing away, in stark contrast to the multiple clues offered by Peter Blake's detailed collage for Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, released the previous year. If Sgt Pepper was British psychedelia's high-water mark, The Beatles (the White Album's actual title, and itself a blank) signalled turmoil. Revolution was in the air in 1968, with widespread unrest and the disintegration of established social orders. And the Beatles' own disintegration was becoming evident for the first time on the White Album. Recording sessions were often fraught, each member working separately...

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A new survey shows one fifth of parents have taken an under-five to a festival. Is this a good idea? And if so, how do you make them sit through the Low Anthem? Try these tips ...

It was early Saturday afternoon at Larmer Tree Gardens, home of End of the Road festival. The Broken Family Band had taken to the stage and, as their opening chords rang out, my son â€' then five years old â€' flung himself to the ground at my feet. He clutched his hands to his ears and screamed: "No! No! No!"

It's not the kind of experience that leaves any remotely diligent parent thinking they've made the right choice about the weekend's family entertainment. Nevertheless, according to a survey of 1,500 parents conducted for the baby and parenting website gurgle.com, a fifth of mums and dads have taken an under-five to a music festival in the past year.

In the event, we had a decent time at End of the Road. My daughter â€' then nine â€' made a fortune collecting plastic glasses and claiming back the deposits. My son enjoyed the circus skills workshops and messing around in the woods. It was certainly a much happier experience than Latitude in 2007, when I had to threaten a drunk teen who was trying to push me and my son â€' three at that point â€' out...

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We announce the winner of the monkey mash-up competition where creatives were invited to makeover their mascot

In May 2011, the iconic Belgian label Kipling launched their ‘Monkey Mash-Up’ project, inviting people to get creative and customise the brand's monkey mascot. To kick off the project, Kipling teamed up with Dazed & Confused, challenging three talented Londoners to give their monkey a design makeover including Susie Bubble of Stylebubble, Alex Brownsell of eccentric colour salon Bleach and comic book artist/illustrator Jessica Penfold. ... article continues »
          
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Yesterday saw more debuts from the Manchester international festival, including Punchdrunk's Doctor Who show and an opera by Damon Albarn

The Manchester international festival is hitting its stride now, with a tranche of new work unveiled yesterday. Punchdrunk's kids-only show The Crash of the Elysium, a collaboration with the makers of Doctor Who, opened its doors in the afternoon. Mark Brown went along and loved it, saying "there are scares but there are good scares." You can read his report here.

Then at the Palace Theatre, Damon Albarn's opera Dr Dee debuted to an audience including Alex James, Paul Simonon (bassists of Blur and The Good, The Bad and the Queen respectively), New Order's Bernard Sumner and Blur drummer Dave Rowntree. The beginning saw a raven fly from the balcony onto the stage - very impressive. Albarn was onstage throughout, singing the opening and closing songs, but more often hovering over the action on a platform high above the stage. Albert Hickling greatly enjoyed the piece, giving it a four-star review. We also posted a video yesterday in which Albarn talks us through the concept.

Incidentally, Damon Albarn was at breakfast at the Guardian's hotel this morning grinning from ear to ear and surrounded by adoring women of various ages. Lucky him, eh?

In other news, Dave Simpson went to see Sinead O'Connor at the Pavilion theatre, in the course of which she apparently had some choice words to say about

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The renowned accessories brand launch their new 'Monkey Mash-Up' competition to customise their cult monkey friend

Iconic accessories and luggage brand Kipling launch their ‘Monkey Mash-Up’ project, inviting one and all to indulge in their own creativity and customise their notorious monkey mascot. To kick off the project, Kipling had teamed up with Dazed & Confused, challenging three talented Londoners to try their hands at giving the cheeky monkey a design makeover. Susie Bubble of Stylebubble, Alex Brownsell of eccentric colour salon Bleach and comic book artist/illustrator Jessi... article continues »
         
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It's been four years since the premiere of Damon Albarn's maiden voyage into opera, the Jamie Hewlett co-created Monkey: Journey to the West. Now, the BBC reports Albarn's got another stage show on the way, and it's set to premiere this summer as part of the Manchester International Festival (which, as reported earlier, is the same fest that Bjoerk will be debuting new songs from her forthcoming LP Biophilia).

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