Experimental psych-pop group Animal Collective have shared a 24 minute improvised jam session from their first band practice in a year and a half, called ‘Michael, Remember’.

The jam was recorded at Drop of Sun Studios in Ashville, North Carolina on 12th May 2015. Panda Bear, Avey Tare and Geologist feature on the improvised recording, but Deakin wasn’t present. Drop of Sun is where the band wrote and rehearsed their upcoming album, but with no material being released yet this jam is our first insight as to what we might expect.

The music is accompanied by a suitably trippy underwater video taken at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico. As the band suggested on an Instagram post, “Turn off the lights and watch on as big a screen as possible.” The video was filmed by Collin Foord, a marine biologist and one half of Coral Morphologic. According to a description on vimeo the film was shot over two nights in July 2014, with additional camera and lighting by Deakin and Geologist, and editing being done by Jared Mckay of Coral Morphologic.

You can listen to the jam and watch the other-worldly video below:

Animal Collective’s new album doesn’t have a title yet, and will be their first since 2012’s ‘Centipede Hz’. Since then Panda Bear has released a new solo album called ‘Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper’, and yesterday released a 26-minute mix of unused material on Soundcloud that he recorded during work on ‘Grim Reaper’.