Centipede Hz is the ninth studio album by American experimental pop group Animal Collective, released on September 4, 2012, on Domino Records.

In November 2010, Deakin rejoined Animal Collective, after sitting out on the recording and touring of the band's eighth studio album, Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009).

With the band receiving significantly more attention, the four members of Animal Collective moved back to their hometown of Baltimore, Maryland in early 2011 to begin writing their ninth studio album.

[4] In an interview with Pitchfork Media, Avey Tare called Centipede Hz "more grounded in one location" and less ambient than the group's previous album.

Centipede Hz also featured the first Animal Collective song where Deakin sang lead vocals, on "Wide Eyed".

[7] The band got the idea for using radio interference while rewriting then in-progress songs on Centipede Hz for a live performance at the 2011 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

He had recently got a CD of all the radio identifications that come between [songs], and we were going back through everything, listening to how weird and spacey and experimental it sounded.He also compared the sound of these idents out of their original context to musique concrète, which allowed the band to interpret these samples as musical textures.

All three formats are available to pre-order and include a bonus DVD containing the music files and a video of the band's 2011 Prospect Park show in Brooklyn.

[12] On July 29, as part of the lead-up to the album, Animal Collective began broadcasting weekly "Centipede Radio" shows from a section of their website.

[15] On August 19, 2012, the album was streamed in its entirety on Animal Collective's official website, with each song accompanied by a custom video directed by Abby Portner.

"[24] BBC Music's Mike Diver gave the album a positive review, writing "submit fully to Centipede Hz and it will infect you, quite deliciously, for the foreseeable.

"[29] Rolling Stone's Jon Dolan gave the album a score 3+1⁄2 stars out of five, writing "What gives Centipede Hz its relatable gravity is that, this time out, Animal Collective sound more like creatures who put their skinny jeans on one hoof at a time [...] For a band that usually seems to be eternally shambling toward transcendence, a shot of ambivalence is a brave new kind of pick-me-up.