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Animal Collective

American experimental pop band

Animal Collective is an American experimental pop band from Baltimore County, Maryland. It has comprised multi-instrumentalists Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist, and Deakin since inception.

The band's work is characterized by an eclectic exploration of styles, including psychedelia, freak folk, noise, and electronica, with the use of elements such as loops, drones, sampling, vocal harmonies, and sound collage. AllMusic's Fred Thomas suggests that the group "defined the face of independent experimental rock during the 2000s and 2010s."

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Animal Collective

what: a band
from: Baltimore
since: 2000
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still after: 1 song

File card: Animal Collective

members: Dave Portner, Josh Dibb, Noah Lennox, Brian Weitz, Croz Boyce

formed in: Baltimore

labels: Domino Recording Company, FatCat Records, Secretly Canadian

genres: art rock, experimental pop, psychedelic music, electronic music

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freak folkneo-psychedeliaexperimentalpsychedelic poppsychedelic folkavant-folk

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Origins and early influences

Animal Collective grew out of childhood friendships in Baltimore County, Maryland. Noah Lennox and Josh Dibb met in the second grade at the Waldorf School of Baltimore and became good friends. After the eighth grade, Lennox went away to a Waldorf high school in Pennsylvania, while Dibb enrolled at The Park School of Baltimore, where David Portner had studied since grade school. In 1993, Brian Weitz moved from Philadelphia to Baltimore County and began attending Park as well, becoming friends with Portner. According to Lennox, they attended "progressive" schools that emphasized creativity, imagination and artistic self-expression as part of "a complete kind of education". Weitz and Portner started playing music together at the age of...

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Artistry and musical style

Portner, Lennox, Weitz, and Dibb began as lo-fi indie rock musicians who, by high school, had amassed individual bodies of work recorded on cassette tapes. Influenced by horror film soundtracks and 20th century classical music, along with a shared passion for vocal harmony the group progressed to "walls of drones with guitars and delay pedals and us screaming into mics," in Portner's words. In college, Weitz and Portner listened to avant-garde records while Lennox explored electronic music, a style he took interest in after listening to The Orb's UFOrb (1992) in boarding school. When the group (sans Dibb) convened in 2000 after the recording of Spirit They've Gone, Spirit They've Vanished, they conducted improvisational music sessions...

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New York based avant-garde collective from Baltimore, Maryland. The band consists of (David Portner), (Noah Lennox), (Josh Dibb), and (Brian Weitz). In the early 2000s, before naming themselves "Animal Collective", the members of the band made several albums under their stage names. The albums they made are nowadays considered to be part of Animal Collective's discography, and have since been re-released under the name Animal Collective. The first one was called Spirit They're Gone Spirit They've Vanished, and it was released in 2000 under the name Avey Tare and Panda Bear. The second one, called Danse Manatee, was released a year later under the name Panda, Geologist and Avey. These two albums were later re-released as a double CD under the name Animal Collective. Also, the first pressing of their 2002 live album [url=http://www.discogs.com/Animal-Collective-Ho Also known as: AC, Anim'al Collective, ▲nimal Collective, アニマル・コレクティヴ From Discogs (free to use). Their entry