History Music / AnimalCollective

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'''Animal Collective''' is an experimental rock band founded in Baltimore in 2000. Its lineup consists of Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deakin (Josh Dibb) and Geologist (Brian Weitz), who have known each other since childhood and began to experiment with mind-altering drugs and psychedelic music in high school.

* CoverVersion: They've occasionally done this in live performances, most notably in Purple Bottle, with some live performances of "The Purple Bottle" featuring both "I Bid You Goodnight" by The Grateful Dead as an introduction and "I Just Called To Say I Love You" by StevieWonder as a bridge.

** The B-side of their Purple Bottle white-label single features a cover of "Polly" by Music/{{Nirvana}}.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: "Guys Eyes" from ''Merriweather Post Pavillion''

* ArchivePanic: As of 2015, in only 15 years of existence, the group had already released 9 studio albums, 6 EPs, 11 singles (often with exclusive B-sides), 2 live albums composed mostly of original material, and the visual album ODDSAC, with a new studio album on the way soon. And that's not even counting all of the member's side projects, live songs that never made it on an album or compilation, and collaborations with other artists. And to add to the confusion, absolutely none of their albums sound even remotely the same.

* TextlessAlbumCover: ''Very'' common with the more recent albums. ''Merriweather Post Pavilion'', ''Strawberry Jam'', and ''Fall Be Kind'' all apply.

Because of the band's stance as a "collective", not every member of the band appears on every album (for example, Deakin is absent on ''Music/MerriweatherPostPavilion'', Geologist doesn't appear on ''Campfire Songs'' and only Avey Tare and Panda Bear perform on ''Sung Tongs''). Panda Bear has released four solo albums since 1998, and Avey Tare has one of his own. Deakin has toured with solo material of his, but no album has been released yet.

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* NewSoundAlbum: '''Every single album''' of theirs (with the possible exception of ''Painting With'') does this.

* NewSoundAlbum: '''Every single album''' of theirs does this.

Because of the band's stance as a "collective", not every member of the band appears on every album (for example, Deakin is absent on ''Merriweather Post Pavilion'', Geologist doesn't appear on ''Campfire Songs'' and only Avey Tare and Panda Bear perform on ''Sung Tongs''). Panda Bear has released four solo albums since 1998, and Avey Tare has one of his own. Deakin has toured with solo material of his, but no album has been released yet.

* ''Merriweather Post Pavilion'' (2009)

* BrokenRecord: "Brother Sport" from ''Merriweather Post Pavillion'' is probably the most extreme example of this, as EVERY section of the song consists of this but overall, heavy repetition of some phrase(s) is quite a defining characteristic of their songwriting. Other notable examples include just about any song from ''Merriweather Post Pavilion'', "We Tigers" from ''Sung Tongs'', "For Reverend Green" and "Chores" from ''Strawberry Jam'', ''What Would I Want? Sky'', and many others.

* LastNoteNightmare: "Who Could Win A Rabbit" ends with about twenty seconds of...really weird looped gurgling noises. The music video makes it so much worse.

* CoverVersion: They've occasionally done this in live performances, most notably in Purple Bottle, with some live performances featuring both "I Bid You Goodnight" by The Grateful Dead as an introduction and "I Just Called To Say I Love You" by StevieWonder as a bridge.

* ArchivePanic: As of 2013, in only 13 years of existence, the group had already released 9 studio albums, 6 EPs, 11 singles (often with exclusive B-sides), 2 live albums composed mostly of original material, and the visual album ODDSAC. And that's not even counting all of the member's side projects, live songs that never made it on an album or compilation, and collaborations with other artists. And to add to the confusion, absolutely none of their albums sound even remotely the same.

* OldShame: Subverted. The band is actually quite fond of their abrasive early work.

*** "For Reverend Green", anyone?

* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Heavily averted. Panda Bear is easily the shyest and most introverted member of the band.

* LyricalDissonance: Averted or subverted for the most part. Played straight on ''Danse Manatee'' and ''Campfire Songs'', however.

'''Animal Collective''' is an experimental rock band founded in Baltimore in 2000. Its lineup consists of Avey Tare (David Porter), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deakin (Josh Dibb) and Geologist (Brian Weitz), who have known each other since childhood and began to experiment with mind-altering drugs and psychedelic music in high school.

'''Animal Collective'' is an experimental rock band founded in Baltimore in 2000. Its lineup consists of Avey Tare (David Porter), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deakin (Josh Dibb) and Geologist (Brian Weitz), who have known each other since childhood and began to experiment with mind-altering drugs and psychedelic music in high school.