What Would I Want Sky: Animal Collective

According to a Tweet from “Animal Collective‘s” management company, the band has cleared the first ever officially licensed Grateful Dead sample. The currently unreleased track “What Would I Want Sky” contains a sample of the Dead song “Unbroken Chain”.

Here is what the band has to say:

Brian Weitz [aka Geologist]: “And ‘What Would I Want Sky‘ is something that Dave [Portner, aka Avey Tare] wrote for Merriweather and sent Noah [Lennox, Panda Bear] and I, but we didn’t have time to work on parts before we got to the studio, and then one day a week, the engineer would like to have a day off. But we would usually go into the studio anyway and work on the songs that we had never played live, and some that didn’t make it on the record. ‘What Would I Want Sky’ is one we just never got to. We just didn’t have enough time, so we worked on it in Lisbon in January. We all went to Lisbon to hang out for a week, and that’s when we made a full-band version of that song.”

David Portner [aka Avey Tare]: “Hopefully, we’re gonna do a kind of ‘Brother Sport’ EP at the end of the year, with the extra tracks and maybe ‘What Would I Want Sky’. I think that would be sweet.”