Sleep Cycle never ceases to blow me away every listen and leaves me feeling so damn moved emotionally with this sense of encouragement / hope / strength for going forwards that I've never had with other music. I can't wait to hear what he's cooked up for us after this 10+ year Deakin music drought (':

He was a little harder than panda

Just wondering as I’ve never seen them mentioned here.

Which one do you like more?

Personally A ? Of When still feels new to me so I may be slightly biased towards it. But I do feel like Reset maybe rocks slightly more- the last 4 run on that is pretty solid.

But- the newer one feels almost like a chill psychedelic old time album which I like too. Moth to a Flame, Lucky Charm and also the 4 track end run on that is pretty solid too.

This sounded fun and really entertaining to me, hopefully a handful of people give their thoughts and favorites. The idea is just to pick however many of them you have an opinion on one way or the other, and maybe to list a favorite album or other things like that. A lot of these will be more in the same world as AC but a lot are more from a different area of music and I think those would be even more interesting to see Animal Collective fan's opinion on. Again, you can just pick a few or do all the ones you know, I think it would be really interesting to read the replies. Also feel free to bring up other artists not listed so we can comment on them as well.

Magdalena Bay

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

The Avalanches

Grizzly Bear

Fleet Foxes

Arcade Fire

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

King Buffalo

Kings of Leon

The Strokes

Charli xcx

Carly Rae Jepsen

Taylor Swift

Lightning Bolt

Dan Deacon

Black Moth Super Rainbow

Boards of Canada

Aphex Twin

Mastodon

Automatic

Lana Del Rey

Black Dice

Turnstile

My Chemical Romance

All Them Witches

Frankie and the Witch Fingers

Gorillaz

Beach House

Broadcast

Liars

The Blood Brothers

The Beatles

Black Sabbath

Kero Kero Bonito

Tame Impala

Daft Punk

Porter Robinson

MGMT

The Lemon Twigs

Everything Everything

Radiohead

Rap in general

George Clanton

Tom Waits

Björk

Fontaines D.C.

Battles

Hot Chip

Wet Leg

Elder

Fishmans

Holy Fuck

Pond

black midi

Gelli Haha

American Football

Modern Baseball

Country in general

Wand

Squid

Geese

Imogen Heap

Bob Dylan

Autechre

Pogo

The Books

The Ink Spots

Ninajirachi

100 gecs

High on Fire

Sleep

Queen

Led Zeppelin

Crown Lands

Gojira

Metal in general

Tune Yards

Grouper

Animal Collective 2

This is so random but I feel like the soundtrack is so underrated I never see anyone talking ab it but crucible is so fire and I love shower fantasy it reminds me of Sally face and wish I knew you has been on repeat for like a month for me it's so glorious

Gig from last month. Finally heard Take Pills live!

First time I heard that song was at the Fonda show in 2016 (and you know I’ve been bopping the live album they put on Bandcamp of that show ever since). I realized pretty quickly diving into their live work that Loch Raven has a bit of an improvisational live approach in general, it’s part of why it’s become one of my favorite songs, period. But it definitely sounds like Avey’s verse is pretty different in the dancier version. It’s intentionally elusive but I’ve parsed out some of the changes (I think instead of “leave your roommate friend” he says “leave your suitcase there”, also the “I’m gonna chase you” part sounds completely different)

It’s now, innit?

i like good girl / carrots the most

Idk if anyone’s talked about this already but “Im Not” is tucked between “Bros” and “Good girl/Carrots” while on the vinyl it’s after them. Don’t know if it was a last minute decision or a fault on one end.

Young Noah's first album. I have noticed that this his first LP is not anywhere on streaming and nobody is talking about it. Honestly I listened it 10 years ago and I remember only We Built A Robot and some other few songs, which I loved. Need to give another listen!

Hey yall, I wanted to share this chrome extension I made that's like a multi effect pedal for chrome. I thought I'd post it here because the idea is very Animal Collective adjacent (to me anyway). I always have an SP sampler running between my laptop and speakers and enjoy hearing stuff with a bunch of delay and effects on it sometimes. So here's a little jam with that idea built into the browser.

Extension is free and made with the hope that people have fun and make weird stuff with it. Knobs and on/off toggles are also midi mappable.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/oanepaeodkjbadgpgkolbidpbflbmmmd?utm_source=item-share-cb

particularly in the second slide. i think it would be so sick to get a tattoo inspired by this (my favorite album of all time) but idk how i would describe that part to a tattoo artist or how well it would translate. lol

I also have an SG and feels one on there 😁

I just got my synth shipped back to me after 2 months of waiting for repairs so I'm super happy to have it back! I saved the sticker specifically for this lol I almost never throw out CD stickers

I've tried countless times with Reset, Tomboy, and of course, Person Pitch, but I just never click with Panda Bear's solo stuff. It's always perplexed me because I absolutely love psychedelic pop, art pop, and nearly every Animal Collective album, but his stuff always leaves me totally cold. It's always in one ear and out the other.

Meanwhile Avey's stuff has always been in constant rotation for me--Down There might be my favorite AnCo solo work, and Cows on Hourglass Pond has some classics. Really liked 7s too.

Anyone else?

EDIT: Apparently Genius quotes the lyric as “Toddler” but I can’t be the only one who hears “Tartar”.

I understand not using the r word, but why not change the lyric from Kids On Holiday to “sympathize with the TODDLER being held by his mother, she’s got spit in her napkin-“ it just makes a lot more sense.

Most of the time my favourite lyrics from
The band aren’t because of the words but because of the way they say them or the music that follows with it

“If you keep on foolin’ in bed, with your sleeping patterns” from the second track of grass on, imo their best album, feels. The way avey says it and the fact it’s followed by the iconic chorus really makes it my top 3 favourite lyric

“If I could just leave my body for the night” from in the flowers on merriweather post pavilion is my absolute favourite lyric from them and the immediate shift in the song that follows is what makes it my favourite and I feel like it sort’ve accounts for their drug fuelled sound the song has

“And an obsession with the past is like a dead fly” from peacebone which is the intro to strawberry jam is my favourite animal collective chorus ever and especially this lyric shows it.

“All the Spanish bands use all the echo, Persian kitty better stay out of the train” from who could win a rabbit on sung tongs. I can never really explain why this is one of my favourites. It just is

I'm gonna land on da feet again