Animal Collective

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Animal Collective
Animal Collective-3.jpg
General information
Genre (s) New Weird America
Avantgarde
Experimental
Neo-Psychedelia
Psychedelic Pop
Freak Folk
Noise Pop
founding around 1999
Website My Animal Home
Current occupation
Avey Tare (David Portner)
Panda Bear (Noah Lennox)
Geologist (Brian Weitz) (since 2000)
Deakin / Deaken / Deacon (Josh Dibb) (since 2001)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Strawberry Jam
  US 72 09/29/2007 (2 weeks)
Merriweather Post Pavilion
  DE 79 01/23/2009 (1 week)
  UK 26th 
silver
silver
01/24/2009 (4 weeks)
  US 13 02/07/2009 (11 weeks)
Centipede Hz
  UK 55 09/15/2012 (1 week)
  US 16 09/22/2012 (3 weeks)
Painting With
  UK 42 03/03/2016 (1 week)
  US 46 03/12/2016 (1 week)

Animal Collective is an American avant-garde music group that has been active since 1999. She comes from the New York City music scene , but has her roots in Baltimore . The band members, all occur under pseudonyms, are David Portner ( Avey Tare ), Noah Lennox ( Panda Bear ), Brian Weitz ( Geologist ) and Josh Dibb ( Deakin , also: Deak . Rsp Deacon ).

Career

The four members met in their childhood and youth and began making music together in different constellations as early as 1992. Noah Lennox and Josh Dibb went to an elementary school in Baltimore together and met in the second grade, which quickly resulted in a close friendship. Lennox later went to high school in Pennsylvania , while Dibb attended the Park School of Baltimore , where he met David Portner and Philadelphia- born Brian Weitz. According to Lennox, their schools were "progressive" in concept and encouraged creativity and artistic expression as part of a "complete education".

Weitz and Portner started making music together at the age of 15, which was due to their mutual love for pavement and horror films. At first they only played cover songs by Pavement and The Cure as well as the songs "Poison" by Bell Biv DeVoe and "Seasons In The Sun" by Terry Jacks . When they both met Dibb, they formed an indie rock band called Automine with school friends Brendan Fowler, later known as BARR , and David Shpritz. During this time, the four friends had their first contact with hallucinogens such as LSD and began to insert improvisational parts into their pieces. When Portner was 16, he wrote the song "Penny Dreadfuls" for Automine , which later appeared on the first Animal Collective album Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished .

After being told by a viewer after a performance that their music was reminiscent of Pink Floyd in the days of Syd Barrett and the early Grateful Dead and they also got to know the Climax Golden Twins through a review , they began to love psychedelic and sound-heavy music like noggin and Krautrock like Silver Apples and Can too. In the meantime, Lennox had been introduced to Dibb's two new friends and the four began to play in different constellations and often solo. At this time, large amounts of home recordings were made , which they exchanged with each other. Among other things, Weitz and Portner started a band called Wendy Darling , in which they used a drum computer for the first time . Her sound was influenced by the soundtracks of her favorite horror films like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Shining , especially György Ligeti and Krzysztof Penderecki . Looking back, Portner said in a 2006 interview with Simon Reynolds :

“Up to that point we had never heard of so-called experimental music, we didn't know that there were people who made music with structure and mere sound. So we started doing it ourselves in high school : guitar droning, delay, and screaming into the microphone. Orig. Engl .: We had never heard so-called experimental music at the time, we didn't know that people made music with textures and pure sound. So we started doing that ourselves in high school, walls of drones with guitars and delay pedals and us screaming into mics. "

Little by little their music came closer to the later sound Animal Collectives .

While Portner ( New York University ) and Weitz ( Columbia University ) moved to New York City , Lennox ( Boston University ) and Dibb ( Brandeis University ) went to private universities near Boston and began working on Lennox's debut album, Panda Bear , What Was Up the amount of footage from his late high school years. They also founded their own label, Soccer Star Records , on which the album was released in 1998.

Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished

Portner, however, hated his life as a student at NYU and drove Weitz back to Maryland every summer to meet the other two and rehearse together. During this time Portner was also working on an album that would later become Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished . Portner asked Lennox to play the drums to his solo songs; in the summer of 1999 they recorded it together with piano and acoustic guitar. The rest of the year, Portner drove back to Maryland on weekends to overdub and mix the album. Spirit They're Gone , finally appeared the following summer under the band name Avey Tare and Panda Bear on their own label, which now available from Soccer Star Records in Animal had been renamed.

Weitz hosted a noise show on WKCR , Columbia University's college radio station, while studying environmental policy and marine biology . On weekends he borrowed avant-garde music from the broadcaster's range and listened to it all night with Portner, which rapidly broadened their musical horizons.

In the summer of 2000, all four spent several months together in Portnerstrasse apartment in downtown New York with intense jam sessions using old synthesizers , acoustic guitars and household items. According to Lennox, this summer laid the foundation for all of Animal Collective's later music :

"[...] everything since then is a variation of what we explored this summer. Dave and I had done Spirit They're Gone before, but this summer the knot really broke. It seemed like we could go wherever we wanted to. Orig. Engl .: [...] everything since then has been a variation of what we explored that summer. Dave and I had already made the Spirit They're gone record, but during the summer we really cracked the egg open. It seemed like we could go anywhere we wanted after that. "

To the regret of the band, all of this summer's recordings were stolen when Portner moved and all four packed the car the night before the move.

In addition to his studies, Portner held concerts at New York University for a while , including for the New York band Black Dice , whose member Eric Copeland he had met in a seminar. In 2000, Portner completed Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished ; at the same time Lennox and Dibb dropped out of their studies in Boston and moved to New York City . In August Lennox and Portner first performed together and played a Campfire Songs show in the Mercury Lounge in New York City; the setlist included two songs from the later album Campfire Songs. Eric Copeland had since become friends with the band, and so Portner and Lennox performed on September 18, 2000 with Black Dice, Dogg and Pony and The Rapture at the New York club The Cooler . Since Portner and Lennox played as a duo there for the first time under the name Avey Tare & Panda Bear , this can be described as the first Animal Collective appearance.

It was at this concert that they both wore face paint and masks for the first time, which later became an important trademark of their live performances and quickly gave them a reputation in the New York music scene . From then on, Portner wore a mask for two years. Lennox initially wore a panda bear hood , later face paint and, on a European tour in spring 2004, a white wig. Dibb only appeared masked during the Here Comes the Indian tour in 2002. During an Australia tour in November 2006, the band appeared masked for the last time.
According to Portner, the disguises were used to relieve tension during performances; They also made it possible for them to “find a place more easily in this other world that we wanted to take the audience into”. Finally, they stopped because they wanted to avoid the image of a “masked band” and not to distract the audience too much from the music . Weitz is the only one who still wears a head torch live.

Danse Manatee — Here Comes the Indian

After Portner and Lennox had played a few appearances in New York clubs as a duo, Weitz joined them at the end of 2000. The live material from this time was largely processed on the album Danse Manatee , which was released in 2001 under the name Avey Tare, Panda Bear and Geologist on the New York label Catsup Plate . This way of working, developing songs during live performances, then recording them in order to then try out new material live, prevailed within the band and became a characteristic of Animal Collective .
In particular, the close friendship with Black Dice had a great influence on the development of the group. In the summer of 2001 they were taken on their first tour by the somewhat better-known Black Dice, on which they played shows in front of ten or fewer spectators and in some cases even the power was cut by promoters because they didn't like the music. According to Weitz, however, they learned a lot from Black Dice, who were already on tour at the time.

Some of the tour's set lists were recorded on the 2002 live album Hollinndagain . It was released on St. Ives , a subsidiary of Secretly Canadian , which only publishes limited vinyl editions. Initially limited to 300 pieces, each copy had a handmade and individually designed cover. One of the band's rarest records, it was re-released on CD and vinyl on October 31, 2006 by Paw Tracks .

Josh Dibb only joined the group after the 2001 tour with Black Dice . The four of them recorded the album Campfire Songs in November 2001 , which was only released in 2003 on Catsup Plate . The concept of the album and parts of the material came from the time Avey Tare and Panda Bear first appeared in New York . All five of the songs included were recorded live on a mini-disc in one take on a covered porch in Monkton, Maryland , with one of the microphones also being placed outdoors to capture the sounds of the environment. In addition, field recordings of the environment were added later. The idea behind the recordings was to make an album that would be as warm and inviting as a campfire. The original album is out of print and was reissued by Paw Tracks in January 2010 .

After this session the four of them began to work on new material for the first time, which later appeared on the album Here Comes the Indian . It was at this time that they faced serious problems within the group for the first time. In retrospect, they described their first major tour through the south of the USA in early 2002 as "pretty brutal". “We all went mad on this tour,” recalls Portner. Shortly before the next tour, Weitz was delighted to receive an acceptance of his favored graduate school (comparable to the German graduate school ) in Arizona . After another three chaotic days on tour, a car breakdown, broken equipment and lack of money, the remaining appearances threatened to be canceled. "At that point we all knew that we would go home, record the songs and then need some distance from each other - and we still had two weeks touring ahead of us," said Weitz in the Collected Animals Forum. When they reached San Francisco , he finally decided to go to graduate school and left the band for a year.

In addition to the extensive touring the band became in 2002 the first national attention through her guest appearance on Arto Lindsay's album Invoke .

Since Josh Dibb alias Deakin had now joined the band, the members found the list of the individual names with Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Deakin and Geologist as the band name too long. In addition, record companies advised them to give themselves a uniform name for marketing purposes. Inspired by their old label Animal , they decided on “Animal Collective” , but reserved the freedom to work under this name in different constellations of at least two of the members, depending on the mood or situation. Her first release under this name was Here Comes the Indian , which was released in 2003 on her own, re-renamed record label Paw Tracks . This was re-launched together with Todd Hyman from Carpark Records . To this day, the members of Animal Collective decide which artists Paw Tracks will sign, while Hyman runs the day-to-day label business.

Here Comes the Indian was the first recording on which all four members contributed musically (with Campfire Songs Brian Weitz only supported the other three with recording). The dense structures and the energy of the album helped the band to attract more attention beyond the borders of New York. After the release of two albums in 2003 it was again Black Dice who made contact with the English independent label FatCat Records , which finally signed Animal Collective . The collective's first Fat Cat release was a double CD with Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished and Danse Manatee , which were previously onlyknown and availablein and around New York .

Sung Tongs — Strawberry Jam

After the dense soundscape of Here Comes the Indian , Portner and Lennox decided to concentrate on more reduced material. Each of the two started writing songs and soon they were performing as a duo with acoustic guitars, a tom and some effects. In this constellation, they toured worldwide with the completely new material, which took up a large part of 2003. They supported múm and Four Tet , among others , before traveling to Lamar , Colorado to record the songs with Rusty Santos, a New York musician and friend of the two. The result was Sung Tongs , released in 2004 on Fat Cat Records . Sung Tongs received worldwide attention from the music press and is widely seen as the band's breakthrough. Pitchfork Media put it in ninth place among the "best albums of the first half of the decade" (2000-2004).

In the meantime Brian Weitz returned from Arizona and joined Josh Dibb again. Now they started to work on the next album, which was finally released under the name Feels in 2005, and in spring 2004 they started their tour with exclusively post- sung-tongs material. Exceptions are the songs "We Tigers" and "Kids on Holiday", which still appear regularly in the band's live set. During a European tour in the spring and a stop in Edinburgh , she introduced Kieran Hebden alias Four Tet to the folk singer Vashti Bunyan , as Hebden had previously played in Bunyan's band. The four had long been big fans of the cult folk singer and her only album Just Another Diamond Day , but Bunyan had also discovered the quartet's music shortly before. After an evening together, they finally asked Bunyan if she would like to record with the band. They encouraged Bunyan to sing the lead vocals on three remaining songs from the Sung Tongs era; the result was the Prospect Hummer EP released in early 2005 . Brian Weitz, who had been working since the beginning of 2004, was absent from this tour and thus also from the recording session, but contributed an instrumental piece to the EP. The release led to a record deal between Fat Cat Records and Vashti Bunyan , who finally wrote and recorded their second album after a hiatus of thirty-five years and released it on the label in 2005.

In October of that year, Animal Collectives' highly anticipated sixth album was released, again as the work of all four members. Feels was recorded in Seattle with Scott Colburn ( Climax Golden Twins ), who had previously worked with the Sun City Girls , among others . The album reached number 27 on the US independent charts, making it the group's first chart position. The release of Feels was followed by the band's longest tour to date, which lasted until autumn 2006 and took them to Australia and New Zealand for the first time . They have appeared across North America and at many European festivals, including headlining the Carling Tent at Reading and Leeds Festivals .

In keeping with their previous working method of playing live largely unrecorded material, they presented several new songs during this tour, which until then were only known by their working titles: "Reverend Green", "Fireworks" (initially also "Allman Vibe" or " Bottle Rocket ")," Chores "," # 1 "," Safer "," Peace Bone "," Cuckoo "and" Street Flash ". Almost all of the named appeared, sometimes under slightly different names, on their 2007 album Strawberry Jam .

Animal Collective live on December 27, 2006

Josh Dibb's father died in the summer of 2006. Among other things, this led to the performance on July 15th at the Rock Herk Festival in Herk-de-Stad , Belgium , being canceled after only two songs.

In late autumn 2006, Animal Collectives' Australian label Spunk Records released the People EP as a 7 ″ single, initially only in Australia, then in early 2007 worldwide as a 12 ″ and CD on Fat Cat Records . It contains studio recordings of the songs "People", "Tiwkid" and "My Favorite Colors" as well as a live version of "People".

In January 2007, the London indie label Domino Records announced that it would release the following, as yet unnamed Animal Collective album. During the recording in early 2007, member Josh Dibb also announced via the Collected Animals Forum that he would take a break from the tour until autumn due to "innumerable personal reasons". Until now he has not returned permanently to the band, which has been playing in threes since then.
On July 4, 2007, the new album Strawberry Jam appeared as a leak on the Internet. It wasn't released until September 11, 2007 in the US and got very good reviews. Songs like "For Reverend Green" were praised for Avey Tare's great vocal versatility, but also Panda Bear was musically more present than on its predecessor Feels . The last song on the album, a song about a dog from Lennox's childhood called Derek , is very reminiscent of the style of his previously released solo album Person Pitch . A series of EPs and singles led to this release, which received a lot of acclaim and was named "Album of the Year 2007" by Pitchfork Media and Tiny Mix Tapes , among others, even before Strawberry Jam .

On April 27, 2007, an album by David Portner and his wife Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir, formerly a member of the Icelandic band múm and known by their stage name Kría Brekkan, was released . Pullhair Rubeye caused a sensation because the songs previously played at the duo's concerts, unlike the live versions, were released backwards on the sound carrier. The reviews were cautious to very negative, both in the media and from the fans; as a result, several digitally "repaired" versions with the forward-playing songs appeared on the Internet.

Animal Collective live at the Seaport Music Festival in New York City , June 1, 2007

Merriweather Post Pavilion

The band toured Europe and America several times throughout 2007 and recorded a number of post- Strawberry Jam songs in their live set in May . These were written in an intensive two-week songwriting phase prior to the tour, months before Strawberry Jam was released. On October 5, 2007, the band also made their national television debut on the US show Late Night with Conan O'Brien - once again in full cast together with Josh Dibb. They played the song "# 1" from their recently released album.

On March 12th, 2008 a leak of the EP Water Curses appeared on the internet, on May 5th it was finally published. On April 9th, the song of the same name was released digitally separately.

In spring 2008, the three of Animal Collective began recording their eighth studio album, the name of which Merriweather Post Pavilion was officially announced on the band's website on October 5th, 2008. It was released on January 6th, 2009. In advance, several music magazines such as FACT declared it the “Best Album of 2009”, while Uncut Magazine even described it as a “milestone in American albums of this decade”. On the following tour through Europe and the USA, Animal Collective headlined the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival New York , where Lennox also appeared as the solo act Panda Bear .

Merriweather Post Pavilion , 2009.

Right at the beginning of the year the new song “What Would I Want? Sky "is an integral part of the set," Bleed "was added in May. Both songs later appeared on the Fall Be Kind EP.
On March 23, the first Merriweather Post Pavilion single "My Girls" was released; this song was named the best song of the year by Pitchfork Media in late 2009 . The release was followed by another TV appearance on May 7, 2009, this time on the Late Show with David Letterman with their second single "Summertime Clothes". In addition, for the first time four dancers covered with cloths were part of their performance. These also appeared in the music video for "Summertime Clothes," directed by Danny Perez, a close friend of the band. The single release on July 7, 2009 also included remixes by Zomby , Dâm-Funk and Leon Day .

In May, the Animal Crack Box , which had been announced for years , was also released on Catsup Plate , a vinyl live set limited to 1000 copies. It contains previously unknown live recordings from the beginnings in New York clubs in 2000 to the Sung Tongs Tour in 2003. Shortly before, a test print of the box was auctioned on eBay , the proceeds of which went to Doctors Without Borders .

Brother Sport , the next single from Merriweather Post Pavilion , was released on vinyl on November 9th with a live version of the song "Bleeding" as the b-side. In addition, a video for the song "In The Flowers" was posted on the band's official website in mid-November. It comes from David Portner's sister Abby Portner ( First Nation , Rings ) On December 15th, the Fall Be Kind EP followed, which contains two songs left over from the Merriweather Post Pavilion era, "Graze" and "I Think I Can", as well "What Would I Want? Sky ”with the first legal Grateful Dead sample and“ On A Highway ”. The "bleed" already known from live performances is also included.

In late 2009, Merriweather Post Pavilion was named the best album of the year by both Pitchfork Media and Tiny Mix Tapes .

In the annual best lists of the German music publications intro , Musikexpress , Rolling Stone , Spex and Visions , Merriweather Post Pavilion was among the best 10 and best 20 albums, respectively. In the Spex Readers Poll 2009 even on the 2nd place.

"Visual album" and tour break

Since 2006 the band has been working on ODDSAC , a “visual album” or music film directed by Danny Perez, who already wrote the videos for the singles Who Could Win a Rabbit? and Summertime Clothes contributed. The film is supposed to visualize the music of Animal Collectives and, according to Lennox, “show something like what someone sees when they hear Animal Collectives music and close their eyes.” Weitz added that it was “the most experimental thing we have ever done. "According to Portner, the film" has no coherent plot. It's more of a visual or a psychedelic thing. There are parts that are almost completely abstract, and still others show more live action. ”All members are“ really enthusiastic ”about the result and happy to be finished after three years of work. The film celebrated its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2010. ODDSAC will be shown in cinemas in North America and Europe from spring and will then be released on DVD .

For the time after the concerts in New Zealand and Australia in December 2009, the band announced a break after two years on tour in order to be able to concentrate more on working on new material. On November 13th, Lennox announced that he would be doing a small tour through Europe as the solo act Panda Bear before this break . At the first shows in Berlin and Belgium he almost exclusively presented new material and was supported in Belgium by Deakin , who had already appeared for the first time with solo material shortly before. On March 4, 2010, Animal Collective, this time consisting of Avey Tare, Deakin and Geologist, worked again with Danny Perez. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, they presented the audio-visual performance Transverse Temporal Gyrus .

Band members

  • Avey Tare (David Portner; vocals, guitar, samples, keys, percussion) - His stage name was created through the “tear apart” of his nickname Davey, ie “Avey Tare”.
  • Deakin (Josh Dibb; guitar, vocals) - Dibb used to sign letters to his friends with the name "Conrad Deacon". Within the band he sometimes used different spellings: "Deaken" on Here Comes the Indian , "Deakin" on Feels and "Deacon" on the Grass single and on Strawberry Jam .
  • Geologist (Brian Weitz; Electronics, Samples, Vocals) - The name comes from his head lamp, which is similar to that of a geologist and which he wears during live performances in order to better recognize the technology.
  • Panda Bear (Noah Lennox; vocals, drums, samples, guitar) - When he started writing his own songs at the age of 14, he decorated his first recordings with panda bears , which are still his favorite animals today.

Discography

Studio albums

EPs

Movies

  • ODDSAC (January 2010, directed by Danny Perez)

Live albums

  • Hollinndagain (2002) - St. Ives, Paw Tracks
  • Animal Crack Box (May 11, 2009) - Catsup Plate

Sampler

Singles

  • Who Could Win a Rabbit (July 19, 2004) - FatCat Records
  • Grass (September 26, 2005) - FatCat Records
  • The Purple Bottle (July 4, 2006) - White label
  • Peacebone (August 21, 2007) - Domino Records
  • Fireworks (November 5, 2007) - Domino Records
  • My Girls (March 23, 2009) - Domino Records
  • Summertime Clothes (June 29, 2009) - Domino Records
  • Brother Sport (November 9, 2009) - Domino Records
  • Transverse Temporal Gyrus (April 21, 2012) Domino Records
  • Honeycomb / Gotham (May 6, 2012) - Domino Records

Music videos

  • Who Could Win A Rabbit (Danny Perez)
  • Grass (superhate)
  • Fickle Cycle (Scott Colburn)
  • Lake Damage (Brian DeGaw)
  • Peacebone (Timothy Saccenti)
  • Fireworks (Jon Leone)
  • Water Curses (Andrew Kuo)
  • My Girls (Jon Vermilyea)
  • Summertime Clothes (Danny Perez)
  • Brother Sport (Jack Kubizne)
  • In the Flowers (Abby Portner)
  • Guys Eyes (Patrick O'Dell)
  • Today's Supernatural (Danny Perez)
  • Apple sauce ( Gaspar Noé )
  • FloriDada (PFFR)

Splits

Remixes

  • “Oi bori sujie” (Remix of Kočani Orkestar in collaboration with Taraf de Haïdouks ), published on Electric Gypsyland Vol. 2 (November 17, 2006)
  • "Little Bird" (remix by Goldfrapp ), released on the Caravan Girl UK 7 ″ Picture disk and on the digital EP of the same name (June 30, 2008)
  • "Mirando" (remix by Ratatat ), released on the Mirando single (February 3, 2009)
  • "Zero" (remix by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs ), released on Zero 7 ″ # 2 and on iTunes (February 24, 2009)
  • "Love Like A Sunset" (Remix by Phoenix ), released on the remix album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Phoenix Remixes) (October 20, 2009) and as a free download
  • "Welt am Draht" (remix by Pantha du Prince ), released in June 2010 as a free download

Guest appearances and sampler contributions

  • "Forest Children Risen" on the sampler US Poplife Vol. 13: Northeast Newcore, Parallel Universe of Exterior and Interior (January 2001, only released in Japan on Contact Records) as Avey Tare and Panda Bear
  • "In the City That Reads" on Arto Lindsay's album Invoke (June 25, 2002, Righteous Babe Records), as Avey Tare , Deaken , Geologist , Panda Bear
  • “The Kite” on the sampler They Keep Me Smiling (July 20, 2004, United Acoustic Recordings), as Animal Collective
  • "Seeing Twinkles" on the sampler Music for Plants (June 2005, PerfectIfOn), as Deaken and Geologist
  • Untitled on Visionaire # 53 - Sound (December 1st 2007, Visionaire Publishing / LLC) as Animal Collective

Solo releases and side projects

Panda Bear:

  • Panda Bear (1998, Soccer Star)
  • Young Prayer (2004, Paw Tracks)
  • I'm Not / Comfy in Nautica (Single) (2005, UUnited Acoustic Recordings)
  • Bros (single) (2006, Fat Cat Records)
  • Carrots (Single) (2007, Paw Tracks) (Split 12 ″ with Excepter )
  • Person Pitch (2007, Paw Tracks)
  • Take Pills (Single) (2007, Paw Tracks)
  • Tomboy (Single) (2010, Paw Tracks)
  • You Can Count on Me (Single) (2010, Domino)
  • Last Night at the Jetty (Single) (2010, FatCat Records)
  • Surfers Hymn (Single) (2011, Compact)
  • Tomboy (2011, Paw Tracks)
  • Doin 'right (2013, with Daft Punk)
  • Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper (2015, Domino)

Jane (Panda Bear and Scott Mou):

  • Paradise (2002, self-published)
  • COcOnuts (2002, Psych-o-Path records)
  • Berserker (2005, Paw Tracks)

Avey Tare:

  • Crumbling Land (2003, Fat Cat Records) (Split 12 ″ with David Grubbs)
  • Lucky 1 (Single) (2010, Paw Tracks)
  • Down There (2010, Paw Tracks)

Terrestrial Tones (Avey Tare and Eric Copeland from Black Dice ):

  • Blasted (2005, Psych-o-Path records)
  • Oboroed / Circus Lives (2005, UUnited Acoustic Recordings)
  • Dead Drunk (2006, Paw Tracks)

Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan:

  • Pullhair Rubeye (2007, Paw Tracks)

Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks:

  • Enter the Slasher House (2014, Domino)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Plattentests.de Review: Animal Collective - Feels
  2. ↑ a b c Rhapsody Music Animal Collective profile
  3. ↑ Foxy Tunes Planet Animal Collective Profile
  4. ^ Rolling Stone Review: Strawberry Jam: Animal Collective
  5. ↑ Allmusic: Overview Strawberry Jam Review
  6. ↑ About.com Genre Profile "Freak Folk"
  7. ↑ The Harvard Crimson ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. "Animal Collective Draws Herds," November 12, 2004 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thecrimson.com
  8. ↑ Chart sources: DE UK US
  9. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
  10. ↑ a b c d e f g MOTHER NATURE'S SONS: Animal Collective and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti by Simon Reynolds, The Wire, 2005
  11. ↑ a b Collected Animals ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Post by David Portner under the username "wheeter", December 5, 2006  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rerz.net
  12. ↑ Collected Animals ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Post by David Portner under the username "wheeter", August 10, 2006  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rerz.net
  13. ↑ FatCat Records: Releases ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. "Animal Collective. Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished / Danse Manatee " @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fat-cat.co.uk
  14. ↑ a b c Collected Animals ( Memento from September 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Post by David Portner under the username "wheeter", July 18, 2006 (web archive)
  15. ↑ Interview with Panda Bear. In: The Milk Factory. March 2005, archived from the original on February 22, 2012 ; accessed on May 2, 2016 .
  16. ^ Questions for the Collective. Forum contribution by Josh Dibb under the username "deakin", January 9, 2008 ( Memento from September 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ Collected Animals ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Posted by Brian Weitz under the username "veyesor", June 7, 2007  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rerz.net
  18. ↑ paw-tracks.com: Animal Collective campfire songs press page , accessed on April 16, 2011
  19. ↑ a b Collected Animals ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Post by Brian Weitz under the username "veyesor", May 12, 2006  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rerz.net
  20. ↑ Pitchfork: Staff Lists “The Top 100 Albums of 2000-04” (page 10), posted on February 10, 2005
  21. ↑ Collected Animals ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Post dated July 15, 2006  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rerz.net
  22. ^ Questions for the Collective ~ Questions for Deakin. Post by Josh Dibb under the username "deakin", January 30, 2007 ( Memento from November 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  23. ↑ Ajitpaul Mangat: Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam In: Tiny Mix Tapes Favorite Albums of 2007. 25 album did Defined 2007 for TMT. In: Tiny Mix Tapes. Archived from the original on August 21, 2009 ; accessed on May 2, 2016 .
  24. ↑ Domino USA "Merriweather Post Pavilion," October 10, 2008
  25. ↑ Stephen Troussé: Album Review: Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion. In: Uncut - Music & Movies with something to say. Archived from the original on October 1, 2011 ; accessed on May 2, 2016 .
  26. ^ Pitchfork Media: Staff Lists The Top 100 Tracks of 2009
  27. ↑ My Animal Home Official Website
  28. ^ A b c Pitchfork Media: News "Animal Collective's Avey Tare Reveals All About New EP, Film, Tour Hiatus", October 9, 2009
  29. ↑ Larry Fitzmaurice: Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion in Staff Features 2009: Favorite 50 Albums of 2009, 50 Albums that Defined 2009 for TMT. In: Tiny Mix Tapes. Archived from the original on December 19, 2009 ; accessed on May 2, 2016 .
  30. ^ Pitchfork: Staff Lists The Top 50 Albums of 2009
  31. ↑ www.poplist.de Merriweather Post Pavilion in the 2009 annual best lists of German music publications
  32. ↑ Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the out-of-competition sections of Premieres, Spotlight, New Frontier and Park City at Midnight at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, December 3, 2009 ( Memento from April 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  33. ↑ Pitchfork Media - News "Panda Bear Announces Solo Tour", November 13, 2009
  34. ↑ Panda Bear live @ HAU2 January 15th. In: Ramin Ton :. January 17, 2010; Archived from the original on March 25, 2010 ; accessed on May 2, 2016 .
  35. ↑ The Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Animal Collective & Danny Perez: Transverse Temporal Gyrus ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Guggenheim.org  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.guggenheim.org
  36. ↑ explained in WNYC's "Spinning On Air", July 30, 2004, second hour.

Web links

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Animal Collective
Panda Bear • Avey Tare • Deakin • Geologist


Studio albums

Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished (2000) • Danse Manatee (2001) • Campfire Songs (2003) • Here Comes the Indian (2003) • Sung Tongs (2004) • Feels (2005) • Strawberry Jam (2007 ) • Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009) • Centipede Hz (2012) • Painting With (2016)

Extended plays

Prospect Hummer (2005) • People (2006) • Water Curses (2008) • Fall Be Kind (2009) • Keep + Animal Collective (2011) • Transverse Temporal Gyrus (2012) • Monkey Been to Burn Town (2013) • The Painters (2017) • Meeting of the Waters (2017)

Live albums

Hollinndagain (2002) • Animal Crack Box (2009) • Live at 9:30 (2015)