Articles tagged "animal collective"

Events Review

Animal Collective: 14 August 2009 - Brooklyn, NY

by Eddie Ciminelli

[25.Sep.09] :. I am unaware of any band these days that is constantly pushing themselves creatively as much as Animal Collective.

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Capsule Reviews

Eric Copeland: Alien in a Garbage Dump

by Alan Ranta

[14.Sep.09] :. This Black Dice member's collection of previously vinyl-only sound collage EPs is best enjoyed as an experiment rather than a possible purveyor of memorable singles and easy fun.

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Mixed Media

Animal Collective - Interview with Noisevox (video)

by PopMatters Staff

[23.Jul.09] :. Animal Collective released Merriweather Post Pavilion to near universal acclaim earlier this year and are on track to do very well indeed in year-end top albums lists of many publications,...

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Notes from the Road

Bonnaroo Day 1 (Friday, 12 June 2009)

by John Bohannon

[13.Jun.09] :. Words by John Bohannon and Pictures by Karen Dunbar

Notes from the Road

Mixed Media

A.C. Newman, Lithops, Animal Collective…

by PopMatters Staff

[22.Jan.09] :. A.C. Newman Submarines of Stockholm [MP3] from Get Guilty         Cut Off Your Hands Turn Cold [MP3]       Happy As Can Be...

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The Only Song I Need in ‘09: Animal Collective’s “Summertime Clothes”

by Mike Deane

[15.Jan.09] :. It might only be two weeks into '09 but I think I've already got a soundtrack.

Animal Collective: Water Curses

by Zach Schonfeld

[23.May.08] :. It’s been a full half-decade since Animal Collective came to prominence, bridging the gap between Brian Wilson and avant-garde tribal chant.

Animal Collective

by Eddie Ciminelli

[26.Nov.07] :. Half of the crowd has already experienced a night with the Animals and left forever changed. The other half is hoping to join the converted.

Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam

by Matthew Fiander

[13.Sep.07] :. Strawberry Jam is raucous and brilliant. Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Animal Collective: The Punk Rock Band (?).

Good Times, Other Realities: A Conversation with Panda Bear

by Jennifer Kelly

[26.Mar.07] :. Whether with Animal Collective, through his solo work, or via a handful of other projects, Noah Lennox (or Panda Bear) makes a kind of disruptively joyful, emotionally affecting music operate on some sort of limbic plane to change your mood.

Panda Bear: Person Pitch

by Phillip Buchan

[26.Mar.07] :. Animal Collective's Noah Lennox returns for his third solo outing. The tunes are fantastic, but their thrill is not without limits.

Animal Collective: Feels

by Kevin Jagernauth

[17.Oct.05] :. Yet another gorgeous album of magic and whimsy from everyone's favorite purveyors of shamanistic pop.

Animal Collective (Featuring Vashti Bunyan): Prospect Hummer

by Richard T. Williams

[27.May.05] :. Hardly even a small step in Animal Collective's evolution, Prospect Hummer offers more of the same, only this time with a songbird amongst all the panda bears and rabbits.

Animal Collective: Who Could Win a Rabbit EP

by Jason Korenkiewicz

[27.Jul.04] :. This release carries on the growing legacy of an important new American band who have made it safe for us all to return to the woods.

Animal Collective: Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished / Danse Manatee

by Kristina Francisco

[13.Nov.03] :. 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.