animal collective takeover

This has been my favorite song for the last couple of years. It has a lot of versions that are worth checking out. Paul Bley died a few weeks ago and one of the obituaries quoted him as saying there is no reason to go to a show if you know what is going to happen - you go to get lost...

i gather that people stop being open to new sounds after the age of 33? but i haven’t found that to be the case so much and I’m an old man. this is off one of my favorite records from last year and the video reminds me of home. — Panda Bear of Animal Collective

A friend of mine sent me some rips of these records some years back. I've never grabbed copies of my own actually. I've often wondered why you don't hear more about these songs and Gloria Ann Taylor's crazy amazing voice with all its trills and bends and pure emotion...

I slept on this guy when I was getting into music concrete in the 1990’s. I’ve recently been going back to his records to make up for lost time. I’d like to thank Editions Mego for helping with that. You often hear about psychedelic musicians studying with, or being inspired by electronic composers - Holger Czukay, Phil Lesh, Syd Barrett - but rarely do you see instances where the interest goes

when I’m making something and I’m really getting down to it i begin to feel like tom and elis seem to here in this video at around 2:50. i want the music to make other people feel like that. above all i hope to share that feeling. the portuguese language promotes rhythmic phrasing that feels unwieldy and unnatural in english (not impossible its just not what feels easy)...

Sometimes a band's reputation precedes them. Seems like such is the case with Animal Collective these days. When I was in high school it felt like pavement had a reputation as slacker jokesters who were only half serious as far as rock bands go and despite their indisputable talent were really making most of their career out of poking fun at the music industry and "slacking off"... Read

When Dave and I moved to New York for school in 1997, we quickly found The Cooler and saw some life changing shows there in our first few months. We saw Christian Marclay a few times and he always blew us away. Besides loving the music in this video, I love that something like this was on tv...

i heard this on the radio a couple months ago while i was washing dishes. after half a minute or so i just kind of stopped working and listened. like the best music it took me over. the video here is a live version and i love the way they’re all listening to each other and reacting to each other...

Animal Collective's giddily vibrant and colorful new pop record Painting With (the band's 10th LP!) dropped last week, and to celebrate, we've asked the guys to take over the site for the day. So stick around to hang with Avey Tare, Panda Bear, and Geologist all day, and stay up on their posts throughout the day right here...