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	Animal Collective - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Animal Collective is a New York City-based group from Baltimore, Maryland often recognized as an experimental music band.
		Although the band is often classified as psych folk or noise rock, it is hard to define the Animal Collective sound as they often experiment with new styles and ideas.
		In 2002, Animal Collective also attained notoriety for their appearance on Arto Lindsay's album Invoke (Righteous Babe Records).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Animal_Collective (1480 words)

	the Animal Collective/Here Comes the Indian
		The members of the collective (Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Deaken, and Geologist) now have a home base from which to communicate, and it is called Paw Tracks.
		Having already released over 5 records and with two successful US tours (one with friends The Black Dice) under their belts, the Animal Collective are now poised to significantly alter the popular music landscape.
		The Animal Collective are creating the new spiritual music for the 21st century: music that is aware of tradition without being tied down to it; music unconcerned with borders and definitions.
	www.carparkrecords.com /animal_collectives_CD.html (161 words)

	www.myspace.com/animalcollectivetheband
		Animal Collective started its set on Sunday night at Webster Hall with rough scraping sounds, a loop of a shout and a swelling chordal drone.
		And Animal Collective harnessed it in ways all its own: not the ominous fixations of the Velvet Underground, not the oceanic expanses of Sonic Youth, not the jittery stasis of TV on the Radio, but something at once joyful, obsessive and oddly pastoral.
		Even as the Animal Collective's songs spiraled into soundscapes or melted themselves down, there was something logical and organic within: the rigor of the New York drone coupled with the whimsy of a band that has created its own habitats and laws of evolution.
	www.myspace.com /animalcollectivetheband (1086 words)

	Animal Collective: Sung Tongs: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Fairy tales and star-children: These are impressions of 'The Beyond' for imaginative children, and it's this mentality that Animal Collective explore and evoke.
		It might seem whimsical or silly, but only in the sense that these perceptions are the birthrights of all children, and this band have such facility with their musical environment that they manage to turn something primal into something almost timeless.
		Musically, Animal Collective sound more "pop" here than they ever have, which is to say most of the songs have clear melodies that beg to be doubled and tripled by you or anyone else who cares to join.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/a/animal-collective/sung-tongs.shtml (977 words)

	Animal Collective: Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished / Danse Manatee - PopMatters Music Review
		Animal Collective formed in 2000 as a collaboration between the group's two core members Avey Tare (nee David Portner) and Panda Bear (nee Noah Lennox).
		On "Meet the Light Child" the Collective's voices once again become the centerpiece of the song, as is the chanting on "Another White Singer (Little White Glove)", which quite doesn't have the force of a live Animal show though it has the potential to convey it.
		Call it post-rock, psychedelia, prog-pop, or whatever other music category comes to mind, in the end, Animal Collective creates melodies with their vocals or with their instruments that are either accessible or challenging -- sometimes both at once -- and molds it all into tracks and albums with a spacey, out of this world sound.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/a/animalcollective-spirit.shtml (705 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Feels: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Animal Collective seems more inspired by the elements within, rather than in an imitation of that music: There are bombastic drums that would be at home on Pet Sounds on the dynamically thrilling "Grass," and on "Flesh Canoe" there are guitar voicings taken from the pages of Harrison's All Things Must Pass.
		Animal Collective uses all those sounds (and more) in their seventh album, the freakily beautiful "Feels." With pop melodies that are never catchy and instrumentation that is never ordinary, they manage to weave together songs that break away creatively from their past work.
		Here, the Collective manage to advance on their sound in a way that opens them up to new ideas and interpretations, yet at the same time, manages to retain the key Animal Collective sound that has been developing nicely though the previous albums Here Comes the Indian and the classic mighty Sung Tongs.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000AMSRO4 (1652 words)

	Animal Collective (Featuring Vashti Bunyan): Prospect Hummer - PopMatters Music Review
		Animal Collective's new four-song EP then is a great disappointment, as it is far too restrained to be the monumental step forward that the band is primed to take.
		But although the Collective have found a collaborator perfectly suited to one aspect of their sound, they may have placed a robin's egg into a cardinal's nest.
		But air is not a problem for Animal Collective, and they respond with the telltale harp-like guitar strums and choral backing vocals that are so distinctive to their sound.
	popmatters.com /music/reviews/a/animalcollective-prospect.shtml (837 words)

	Animal Collective: Feels: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The first spin is a tad disconcerting because, with its electric guitar and more trad band set-up, Animal Collective sound for the first time like what they've always been to detractors with more outré tastes: an indie rock band.
		Such moments are why the adolescent unpredictability of Animal Collective is such an asset-- they're able to tap into the narrative of Western pop while making it their own.
		Animal Collective's signature approach to composition-- in which open chords are strummed repeatedly for longer than seems necessary to create a unique sense of tension relieved only by vocal chants and howls-- finds its apotheosis over these eight minutes.
	pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/a/animal-collective/feels.shtml (564 words)

	Animal Collective News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Avoiding misnomers and labels and subverting expectations, Animal Collective performed a mix of sounds and songs that were incredibly familiar to Boston fans in attendance.
		Animal Collective Feeling Out Their Future Friday February 17, 2006 @ 07:00 PM By: ChartAttack.com Staff Animal Collective After two years, two universally acclaimed records, a million interviews and year-end...
		The Peter Pans of Animal Collective turn from boys to men on their new album Animal Collective Feels by Andy Beta "Now it is only by rare accidents of spiritual regression that poets make their lines magically...
	www.topix.net /who/animal-collective (595 words)

	Hour.ca - Music - Animal Collective
		Animal Collective on the importance of myths, the middle class and not accidentally provoking the Patriot Act
		Paw prints from the Animal Collective's Panda Bear, Avey Tare, Geologist and Deakin have started to lead in different directions, Geologist is telling me over the phone from NYC, but given their long-standing friendships and shared musical approach, it doesn't mean the group is in danger of separating, just evolving, as good animals do.
		Animal Collective have frequently used the ambient sounds of their environment to flavour their music.
	www.hour.ca /music/music.aspx?iIDArticle=8396 (781 words)

	Oh My Rockness ((Animal Collective))
		But in the case of Animal Collective, I don't mind their obscure guise (as they breathe a huge collective sigh of relief at a website writer's validation).
		Animal Collective's secretiveness is a whimsical game that perfectly fits their playfully experimental music.
		A collective in the truest sense (they have so many shifting members if they all got together they would have to tour in Noah's boat), Animal Collective play experimental psychedelic folk that is anything but ordinary.
	www.ohmyrockness.com /BandBio.cfm?BandID=138 (297 words)

	Tiny Mix Tapes: Animal Collective Music Reviews
		Animal Collective are on such a hot streak right now that the appearance of a vast army of player haters and naysayers is almost imminent.
		The only falter comes during the instrumental "Baleeh Sample." "Sample" seems like the Collective's attempt to recreate the atmospheric creepiness of their concert staple "Wastered" (from the split 10" with Black Dice), but it doesn't quite take root because of the unnatural spaceship effect that constantly buzzes in and out throughout the guitar strumming.
		The major difference, however, and the reason this could fit in the Animal Collective mold, is due to its inconsistent song structures.
	www.tinymixtapes.com /musicreviews/a/animal_collective.htm (1778 words)

	www.myspace.com/animalcollectiveband
		Despite the evident appeal of their deliciously skewed songs, heartbreaking hooks and deep pop sensibilities, Animal Collective is clearly not a simple or stable ‘band’ proposition.
		The Collective’s first offering was a stunning collaboration between Avey Tare and Panda Bear called ‘Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished’, released on their own label (Animal) in August of 2000.
		In whatever formation, Animal Collective are a genuinely thrilling live unit, passionately committed and unafraid to put themselves on the line.
	profile.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=35119522 (782 words)

	ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Sung Tongs
		Brooklyn-based Animal Collective don’t take themselves seriously, and care even less about what people think, and this allows them to inject anything they want into their music, especially humour, giving a truly unique touch to their already unique style.
		Animal Collective is not a stable structure by any means, and although the band is officially formed of four people, their live performances and recordings can feature any number of members at any one time.
		Animal Collective have got a knack for taking their influences and shaping them into something that is only found in the band’s work.
	www.themilkfactory.co.uk /reviews/ac_sungtongs.htm (577 words)

	Montreal Mirror : Cover : Music : Piknic Electronik
		Animal Collective’s earlier records are replete with earthy ambience—especially 2003’s Campfire Songs, a 41-minute set recorded in one take on a porch in rural Maryland—and that idea has stuck, despite the urban sounds that snake through their more recent material.
		The band name was derived from their own indie imprint, Animal, which released their earliest records, among them a largely solo effort by Tare that is regarded as the first Animal Collective LP, Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished.
		Only three Animal Collective releases feature all four members, namely Here Comes the Indian (the flagship release on their Paw Tracks label) and 2005’s Prospect Hummer EP and Feels, and each member has dabbled in either solo work or collaborations with artists such as David Grubbs and Black Dice.
	www.montrealmirror.com /2006/021606/cover_music.html (1025 words)

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		Animal Collective are four friends who like to get together to play music and watch movies and play football (a.k.a.
		We played once at the Animal Collective practice space, but found it much more pleasant to play at Scotty's home in Greenpoint where he had his mixer and simple microphones and we would drink brews and talk about all kinds of things and then play.
		Brooklyn’s Terrestrial Tones is the roommate duo of Eric Copeland (Black Dice) and Dave Portner (The Animal Collective).
	www.paw-tracks.com /edit/artistsEdit.htm (707 words)

	URB :: Feature :: Animal Collective - KINDRED SPIRITS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Animal Collective, a four-piece group who that records and performs far-reaching, gleefully experimental pop music, is a band such as this.
		Soon thereafter, Animal Collective found themselves with a rapidly growing audience who were, um, psyched to find out who the dudes in the bunny masks were, or more importantly, where their deliciously eclectic mixture of Wilson-worthy vocal harmonies, percussive tribal rhythms and bubbly sound manipulations originated from.
		On paper (or at least on record sleeves), Animal Collective began in various East Coast cities in the late ’90s as a catch-all name to encompass the various collaborations between among its often often-traveling members, a practice they still adopt today.
	www.urb.com /online/features/animal.shtml (707 words)

	Animal Collective - "Feels" - Album Review - The Red Alert
		Replace Feels with Animal Collective because this is nothing new: this is a band name so appropriate it seems redundant to put it on the album cover, even more so here.
		And, like the Books, Animal Collective was a two-man project when Sung Tongs was recorded, and accordingly, that disc has a smaller, more individualistic, sound.
		Until recently, Animal Collective toured in costume: Geologist, Panda Bear, Avey Tare, and Deakan.
	www.theredalert.com /reviews/animalcollective.htm (375 words)

	village voice > music > by Nick Catucci (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Animal Collective are wearing what appears to be war paint and gazing at We Love the 80's on a five-foot-tall television.
		Back in the loft, at the photo shoot, Animal Collective instead seem very much like the old Baltimore high school friends they are, quietly alluding to in-jokes, sipping beers, and posing with a bemused, workmanlike patience.
		Animal Collective do exist on the fringe of a pattern—call it crunch, because that sort of sounds like crunk—principally composed of fringes.
	www.villagevoice.com /music/0542,fcatucci1,68926,22.html (1396 words)

	Animal Collective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Even though the Empty Bottle is a far cry from a campground, the Animal Collective still recreated a similar experience for their doting fans.
		Permeating every song, whether a delicate, earthy ballad or a flailing, high-speed freak-out, was the sense that every member of the band really felt the music they were playing, and that every sound they made was meaningful and vitally important to whatever mood they were trying to create at any given moment.
		Whatever it was I needed to truly “click” with the Animal Collective, I found it at the Empty Bottle during one of the best shows I’ve seen all year.
	www.theperfectfaceforradio.com /animalcollective.html (573 words)

	SPIN.com: Animal Collective
		This isn't to say that Animal Collective has gone "pop" in the antiquated sellout-conscious sense: Feels is as creatively mystifying as anything the Collective's ever made, though its accessibility isn't without precedent.
		Words like "anthemic" aren't often leveled at Animal Collective, but how else to describe the album-opening "Did You See the Words?" The track careens through an exuberant series of sing-along choruses, Avey Tare's voice a declarative yelp instead of the usual knowing whisper.
		Animal Collective is best experienced live, and after this autumn takes them on an extensive European tour, they'll return to the States for these dates:
	www.spin.com /features/band_of_the_day/2005/10/051017_animal (377 words)

	All together now - The Boston Globe
		Geologist of Animal Collective, one of the leading lights of a slippery genre-of-the-moment dubbed ''freak-folk." ''None of us really like Americana or the singer-songwriter tradition or blues, which is where we thought a lot of the quote-unquote freak-folk people were coming from.
		Remarkably, Animal Collective's latest album, ''Feels," is the seventh in five years for a band whose oldest member (Josh Dibb, a.k.a.
		What ''Feels" does have to do with, Weitz says, is the fact that the members of Animal Collective -- individually and, well, collectively -- are happier than they've been in a while, with one another and with their own lives.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2006/02/17/all_together_now (1104 words)

	Animal Collective: Feels (2005): Reviews
		Feels takes the Collective in an exciting new direction, creating the kind of record that expands on the group's less esoteric strengths while also pushing their sound forward.
		Each song seems to flow on waves of reverb and gently strummed acoustic, not to mention the trademark animal mating calls and "wtf" noises that could be coming from anywhere.
		anyway, i can't properly describe how much of an affect this album and animal collective's music in general has had on me. this is seriously some of the best music i have ever heard.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/animalcollective/feels (993 words)

	Browse by Artist: ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
		In this incarnation, Animal Collective is once again the duo of Avey tare and Panda Bear, and Sung Tongs is their most perfect, accessible work to date, a luscious flowering and flowing together of deeply catchy, hook-filled songs and intricately textured arrangements.
		Following this meeting, ideas were hatched and conversations began, culminating in the group selecting these three beautiful songs for her to make a home in.
		"The Animal Collective have teamed up with Carpark Records to form a record label. The members of the collective (Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Deaken, and Geologist) now have a home base from which to communicate, and it is called Paw Tracks.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/animal.collective.html (828 words)

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