Animal Collective overhauls Centipede HZ artwork

ANIMAL Collective unveiled the artwork for their ridiculously-eagerly-schmeagerly-hyped forthcoming album Centipede HZ towards the end of last month, drawing a tsunami's-worth of blank faces. Although not renowned for the most clinical of designs, few could be forgiven for 'wtf' expressions when seeing the vomit-inducing/Mad Capsule Markets-esque design for the follow up to one of the greatest albums of the last decade (Merriweather Post Pavilion). It looks as if it was only a taster of what the band had in mind for the final cut... Judge for yourselves. Before:

Now:

Zuuuuhhh...

New music: Glass Diamond -- Girls & Boys

THIS infectious reworking of Girls & Boys by London duo Glass Diamond pleasantly reverberates the eardrums while concocting a sprawling slice of hypnotic acid disco. Fronted by Hsin Chiccy, the exciting two-piece have reinvigorated a forgotten nursery rhyme into a wonderful piece of synth-pop. But it's this bouncing Medicine8 remix that propels it to one of this year's most addictive dance tunes. Girls & Boys is out now on Trashmouth Records.