So your last album had critics and bloggers alike drooling, scrambling for new superlatives to bestow upon your sound. Your hotly tipped live show is the toast of the festival circuit. What do you do next? Apparently taking the independent music world by storm with January's beloved Merriweather Post Pavilion wasn't enough for Animal Collective. The band recently announced the release of Fall Be Kind, a five-song EP of all-new material conceived around the same time as Merriweather. Singer Avey Tare describes the music as darker in tone than the summery Merriweather material. Tare and company are no strangers to sonic sea changes; no two Animal Collective records sound remotely similar. The droning, breakbeat-infused "What Would I Want? Sky" is notable for containing the first officially licensed Grateful Dead sample. Anticipation for this one is through the roof.