Animal Collective (us)
Once an Animal Collective fan: always an Animal Collective fan! Who could forget their previous memorable visits to AB? At one point they opened for Iceland's Múm (in ’04), then there was their own sold-out show in the AB Club, also their moment de gloîre in ‘09: before a sold-out main hall (at the time of their breakthrough album ‘Merriweather Post Pavillion’).

Now Animal Collective is back in AB. More stubborn than ever. Their latest album ‘Centipede Hz’ was a wonderful return to the periphery, where it's exciting to hang out. What's more, Animal Collective will be making an extra-special evening of it and are bringing along two favourite acts on tour, including…

Laurel Halo (us)
Their latest album ‘Quarantine’ was released last year on Hyperdub, let's just call it the holy grail of dubstep. But it was, at the same time, an outsider. The Wire crowned them with ‘Album Of The Year’ and described the Brooklynites musically as “waterlogged synth textures, analogue and digital noise fragments, and refracted, disintegrating rhythms’. Spot on!