Monkey Been to Burntown is a brief companion piece to
Animal Collective's claustrophobic 2012 full-length
Centipede Hz. The EP gathers together four remixes of songs from the record, with members of
Gang Gang Dance,
Teengirl Fantasy, and Chicago Juke producer
Traxman giving wildly different variations on the song "Monkey Ritches" and hip-hop collective
Shabazz Palaces reworking the
Panda Bear-fronted track "New Town Burnout." The always expressive Brian DeGraw of
Gang Gang Dance strips away multiple layers of noise, rendering his take on the track a more straightforward and spookily melodic experience, not unlike the increasingly techno-proficient
GGD output of their past few albums.
Shabazz Palaces transform "New Town Burnout" into a dark and foreboding landscape of heavily effected vocals and towering bass samples. ~ Fred Thomas