My Head Is an Animal as the second single from "My Head Is an Animal" in the UK and Ireland. It was released on 12 April 2012, in the lead up to the album's re-release in Europe. A promotional single followed in June. "Six Weeks" was released as a promotional single from the album in the UK and Ireland. It was released as a digital download on 27 August 2012. "Mountain Sound" was released in the US as the second single from the album, and the fourth overall. Seeing a release worldwide as the follow-up to "Little Talks" as well, it was released on 2
How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare of speech and conversation into his visual works plays a meaningful role in "How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare". The hare is an animal with broad, centuries-old symbolic meaning in many religions. In Greek mythology it was associated with the love goddess Aphrodite, to the Romans and Germanic tribes it was a symbol of fertility, and in Christianity it came to be connected with the Resurrection. This interpretation is also supported by the "mask" that Beuys wore during his performance: gold as a symbol for the power of the sun, wisdom, and purity, and honey as a Germanic