Some musicians would be in a lot of trouble with their fans for playing mostly new songs in concert. Luckily, the guys of Animal Collective know a thing or two about conditioned response therapy, because after more than a decade in the game, fans of theirs have come not only to accept, but to expect and enjoy the performance of unreleased material at their shows. This past weekend, some very lucky Berliners got a taste of what could conceivably have been the ENTIRE NEW PANDA BEAR ALBUM! Sounds to us like something is almost finished.

Including a song called "Surfer's Hymn" which was premiered during Panda Bear's set at ATP New York last year, a grand total of ten brand new and unreleased Noah Lennox originals were performed during his concert in Berlin on January 15. Only one previously released song was played during the entire performance, a glitched-out "Daily Routine" reworked from the Animal Collective version off Merriweather Post Pavillion. The track fits right into the overall flow of his set, and many of the new songs share some common ground with it. There are a lot of darker and more electronic vibes in the new material, and quite a bit less sample fetching overall. If Person Pitch and Young Prayer consummated their love at the Merriweather Post Pavillion and the resulting child was born in Vampire Weekend's practice space, that's about what this new stuff sounds like. Definitely expect the new Panda Bear album to be a bit more bumpin' than the other ones.