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Animal Collective
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Summertime Bros
Why Animal Collective Is the Perfect Soundtrack for Your Summer, and Beyond
Animal Collective’s summery, un-tethered pop songs.
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Let’s Get Weird
My Dinner with Animal Collective
I was in a bad fucking mood. I’d just been robbed. Chunks of my car’s broken widow littered the street, the interior, and now they were wedged into my fingertips. I was on vacation in a strange city and I was bleeding. There was no money left for repairs. I turned the key and the […]
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No Adjectives Needed
Animal Collective “Just Plays, You Know?”
IT’S RARE TO GET more than three sentences into a story about Animal Collective before stumbling across the words “weird” or “freak.” Yet, as I spoke to Dave Porter, AKA Avey Tare, by telephone from New York, he sounded neither weird nor freaky. In fact, he sounded perfectly normal, just sleepy and resigned to a […]