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Animal Collective Clear the First Legal Grateful Dead Sample

5:02 p.m. · July 17, 2009 · by Matthew Richardson

A while ago Prefix posted a bootleg of the very excellent unreleased "Animal Collective" track "What Would I Want Sky," and it turns out now that Animal Collective have cleared the first legal Grateful Dead sample for use in that track. The Grateful Dead track is "Unbroken Chain," and the fact that they bothered to properly license it implies that the group plans on releasing the song sometime in the future.

Dave "Avey Tare" Portner told the Onion's A.V. Club that they might put it on a a "Brother Sport" EP, towards the end of the year, which means that "What Would I Want Sky isn't the only new AC fans would get. Neat, right?

[Pitchfork]