Brothers and sisters of the Old World beware: this fall, while we Americans are at home wasting gasoline and watching terrible Comedy movies we’ve already seen, those handsome-but-dubious devils in Animal Collective will be sweeping across Europe and the Middle East, spreading their noise-jam gospel across two continents in a matter of weeks, kind of like the Black Plague back in the day.

But instead of, you know, buboes and pustules, Avey, Panda, and the boys will thankfully be infecting the masses with something a little less disgusting and a little less crotch-based: the sheer catchiness of their exuberant, nature-praising anthems. Okay, so maybe it’ll still be somewhat crotch-based. Either way, a pandemic is still a pandemic, so I wouldn’t go around French-kissing any shabby-looking musicians “claiming” to be Geologist if I were you.

Migration Patterns:

09.20.08 - Hasselt, BE - Open Circuits Festival 10.11.08 - Berlin, DE - Berghain 10.12.08 - Warsaw, PL - Fabryka Trzciny 10.13.08 - Krakow, PL - Jazz Club Hipnoza 10.14.08 - Prague, CZ - Archa eatre 10.15.08 - Vienna, AT - Arena 10.16.08 - Ljubuljana, SI - Menza pri koritu 10.17.08 - Bratislava, SK - A4 10.18.08 - Zagreb, HR - Teatar and TD 10.19.08 - Belgrade, SP - Dom Omladine 10.20.08 - Skopje, MK - Mac MKC 10.21.08 - essaloniki, GR - Principle Eatre 10.22.08 - Aens, GR - Gagarin 205 10.23.08 - Tel Aviv, IL - Zappa 10.24.08 - Istanbul, TR - Babylon 10.25.08 - Valencia, ES - Greenspace Festival 11.06.08 - Buenos Aires, AR - La Trastienda 11.08.08 - Sao Paulo, BR - Planeta Terra Festival 11.13.08 - Lima, PE - Video and Sound Festival 11.14.08 - Lima, PE - Centro Fundacion Telefonica