Animal Collective

Clubbers' Decktionary: Chillwave

A guide to the myriad genres of clubbing, from Devil Disco DJ Hobbes

17 Oct 2011

Chillwave aka glo fi, proper noun. Generally down-tempo to mid-tempo (ie 80–120 bpm) danceable American indie/electro-pop style; usually made by solo artists with a laptop or small outfits; predominantly influenced by 80s analogue and electronica…

Panda Bear - Tomboy

Woozy submarine pop from Animal Collectivist Noah Lennox

21 Mar 2011

(Paw Tracks) Noah Lennox, aka Animal Collective’s Panda Bear, has been a major influence on the rise of music that sounds like it’s been made in a bathtub, and Tomboy has some more standout examples of the woozy, filtered indie pop that he’s helped…

Small Black - New Chain

27 Oct 2010

(Jagjaguwar) The music that began as a bedroom project. The summery, distorted anthems. The 80s-nodding beats – it’s not as if the world needs another dreamy, foggy dose of lo-fi synths from America. But that doesn’t mean we don’t want it. A…

Avey Tare - Down There

26 Oct 2010

(Paw Tracks) Animal Collective’s Avey Tare could teach Elton John a whole lot about crocodile rock. The Baltimore-born singer-songwriter and producer – real name Dave Portner – is clearly obsessed with all things crocodilian, as his sometimes dreamy…

Animal Collective - ODDSAC

15 Aug 2010

(Plexi) Fair enough, the frenzied blur of kaleidoscopic digital fuzz, the morphing rainbow lights; that, we could probably have seen coming. Like their music, the first ‘visual album’ from Baltimore’s warped-poppers, Animal Collective was always…

Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise

27 Jan 2010

(Rough Trade) Hendrick Weber’s third album, the follow up to 2007’s acclaimed This Bliss, is equally laden with his signature digital bells, chimes, dings and tings. It’s also full of brilliant examples of the more recognisable elements of minimal…

Fall Be Kind - Animal Collective

17 Dec 2009

(Domino) This year’s Merriweather Post Pavilion left a lot of Animal Collective fans thirsty for more. All those summery, melted hooks, the warped beats and echoey vocals, not forgetting the shimmery awesomeness of ‘My Girls’ – it was no wonder it…

Best of a decade: Music

2 Dec 2009

Arcade Fire – Funeral, The Knife – Silent Shout, Radiohead – Kid A, Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago, The White Stripes – White Blood Cells, Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand, Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion, Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To…