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There are two questions that are hard for any [C] Animal Collective fan to answer.
What is your favorite Animal Collective album, and where do I get started with the band?
The problem with Animal Collective is that each album is so incredibly unique from each other
that truly no two albums sound alike.
There might be some borrowed elements from albums,
but even then, the similarities kind of just end at the fact that they are using the same
instruments.
But I think two reasons that play into this is the fact that the band has a rotating
lineup.
It's less of a band and more of a collective.
There's four members in this collective.
Not all members have to be present for an album to be made.
This is a very interesting way of
collaboration that can spawn brand new ideas and thus keeping their music unique throughout their
entire career.
And I think the main reason why Animal Collective has stayed unique is the fact
that they're just really, really weird.
They just like to have fun, and they make that very apparent
in their [Ab] music.
They don't really like to keep things safe.
They just kind of play around and
see what sticks.
You know, it's like cooking pasta.
Hopefully your pasta is going to stick
to the wall.
If it does, that means it's ready to be released, you know?
Their sound never gets old
because they don't have a defined sound.
They're just weird.
My first experience with the band
personally was the album Sungtongs.
Winter's Love came up onto my Spotify Discover Weekly, and I
said, hey, that's a cool album cover.
I'm going to play the song from [Eb] the album instead of Discover
Weekly for some reason.
And so I listened to Winter's Love, and then immediately after it,
Kids on Holiday came on.
And what blew my mind was how vastly different these two songs were while
still keeping the same kind of musical tone, if that makes sense.
It does if you heard the album.
And then Sweet Road came on right after, and it was the same exact way.
I was like, this [Ab] is so
[N] different, but so cool, and yet so familiar.
And so I just dove into the album, and I fell in love
immediately.
This album was made by two of the band's members.
It was made by Panabear and Avitar,
and it's kind of classified as like freak folk music.
If you don't know what freak folk music is,
then you're in for a treat.
It's very weird.
Yeah.
The album's instrumentation basically just
lies with acoustic guitars, and there's some sample thrown in there as well.
But most of the
album's uniqueness comes from the vocals of Panabear and Avitar, and just the way that they
deliver their vocals.
It can be super outlandish at times, and really off-putting at times, like how
they start off the album with Leaf House.
There's that like middle portion where they're just kind
of going like, so don't be afraid if you have to listen to this album a few times before you fully
understand it and get it to click, which sounds very pretentious.
That's just the vibe of Animal
Collective.
So honestly, this album might be a good start for you if you like more acoustic music,
and you're looking for something a little bit more weird and off-putting.
And if you like this album,
then you'll definitely like their 2003 album, Campfire Songs.
This was an album made by Panabear,
Avitar, and Deacon, and it feels a lot more ambient-like than Sungtongues.
A lot more safer
as well.
It's not as freakish.
The album title is very fitting to the vibe of the music.
They
recorded this album all in one take outside on a porch.
You got these really cool like nature
sounds going on around you as you listen to this album, and each song transitions so perfectly into
the next because they recorded it all in one take.
If Freak Folk doesn't really get your attention,
and it doesn't sound like your vibe, I don't blame you.
It's kind of a scary-sounding genre.
Then definitely check out their album, Merriweather Post Pavilion.
This is their most
popular album.
Definitely their best-selling album.
This album had Animal Collective messing
around with more electronic experimentation.
Pretty much every song features super bright
synths.
And it's probably their most accessible album, and definitely their easiest album to
listen to, which is why a lot of people would say that this is probably the best starting point for
the band.
There's also incredible vocal work from Panda Bear and Aby Terror, and honestly,
some of the best melodies are featured on this album.
This album to me sounds like the soundtrack
to a perfect summer day.
And this album also has some of my favorite Animal Collective songs in it,
like Taste, and Guys Eyes, and um, what's that one called?
Summertime Clothes!
And if you enjoyed the
electronic experimentation and electronic instrumentation of Merriweather Post Pavilion,
then you'll probably like Painting With.
Kind of.
I personally haven't seen a lot of love for this
album, which is kind of unfortunate, but also kind of makes sense.
I feel like the pacing on this
album is very strange.
Sometimes just the track listing ruins the album, but that doesn't get rid
of the fact that it's still really good.
There's a bunch of like droney, kind of abrasive synths
in this album, and also the vocal work from Panda Bear and Aby Terror on this album is incredible.
And the melodies at times could be very dizzying.
Aby Terror and Panda Bear are just going like
back and forth, and back and forth, and back and forth, but then in songs like Golden Gals,
it's just super catchy.
Songs like Flora Da Da, Golden Gals, and On Delay just put a smile on my
face immediately once I hear it, and I can't help myself from just singing along to it because it's
so incredible to listen to and so freaking catchy.
Especially Flora Da Da, when the chorus comes on,
I can't stay still, dude.
And then another more electronic experimental album in the band's
discography is Centipede Hurts.
The concept of this album is that you're flipping through an
alien radio station in space, and so if that intrigues you, then check out the album.
This is
definitely the more experimental album in terms of their like electronic vibe discography, I guess.
And honestly, I think it's best enjoyed if you listen to some of their earlier work before you
check out Centipede Hurts.
It can get really weird at times.
I think the abrasiveness in Aby Terror's
vocals can be a little off-putting at times because he can just do these weird jumps in
his vocals that you aren't expecting, and it always keeps you on your toes.
An album that
might help you transition from Merriweather Post Pavilion to Centipede Hurts, or maybe like to
Song Tongues to Merriweather Post Pavilion, is Strawberry Jam.
I think this is a very transitional
album for listeners because it's probably Animal Collective's most all-over-the-place album.
You've
got a lot of songs that experiment with like electronic instrumentation like Peace Bone and
Number One, but then you also have songs that are more kind of in that freak folk vibe like Chores
and Unsolved Mysteries, but then you also got songs with really cool guitar playing and really
interesting guitar manipulation.
Songs like Forever in Green and Fireworks.
Much like Centipede
Hurts, this album does a fantastic job at showing off Aby Terror's vocals because once again, he's
really just making these weird freaking vocal jumps that you're really not expecting, and this
honestly might be the best place to start with Animal Collective.
I think Peace Bone is a great
introduction to the band.
That's the opening track on the album.
It's probably one of my favorite
Animal Collective songs.
If you really want to hear something weird and you really just want to
start off with their strangest albums, then start off with their first albums.
Pretty much up until
last week, I was a huge fan of all this stuff.
I avoided this stuff like the plague because I was
scared.
If you like being able to hear, maybe don't check this stuff out.
Jokes aside, the albums are
really good.
I'm talking about Spirit They Vanish and Dance Manatee.
Spirit They Vanish is a lot more
like spacey and a lot more mystical, but I put them together because they both feature the same
obnoxious, abrasive, high-frequency, loud-ass bullsh-t that could really put off a listener,
but has a super high payoff if you get past all that loud frequency bullsh-t that might damage
your hearing or make your dog run out of the room.
Trust me, especially with Spirit They Vanish, if
you let the songs develop, the payoff is worth it.
Now, if you want to feel like you're on the verge
of a panic attack, then go ahead and listen to Ark.
This album has such a hectic nature to it
that I don't think I've heard in any album ever.
If you want the full experience of this album,
listen to it in the middle of the night in a dark room.
If you get [B] scared, turn on the lights.
I
won't blame you.
Now, if you're an Animal Collective fan, you've probably noticed that
there's one album that I have not mentioned, and that is Feels.
This is my favorite Animal
Collective album of all time, and honestly, if you're a fan of more like indie rock stuff and
you're looking to get into something more [Bb] experimental, then this might be the best album
to start with with Animal Collective because it features [Bb] a lot of conventional instrumentation in
this album, I think.
Still pretty experimental and might be a little bit weird at times.
Trust me,
it took me a while to get into the bees.
The bees, the bees, the bees, the bees, the bees,
there's definitely [A] songs on this album that you'll love on the first listen, and there's [Bb] songs that
will take you a little bit to get into, but this album honestly feels like tasting candy for the
first time.
All of Animal Collective's albums have that kind of childlike wonderment feeling to them,
but this album in particular is just super mystical and just super childlike and just feels
so fun.
It honestly feels like you and your childhood friend just came across this forest
and you guys are exploring this forest for the first time.
Hands down the best Animal Collective
album.
If you have not listened to Animal Collective, I highly recommend you do.
Let me
know what your first Animal Collective experience was.
How did you feel about the band when you
first listened to them?
I oftentimes hear people comparing Mid-Air Thief to Animal Collective.
I
don't really hear it, but if you want to hear a band that's just equally as unique as Animal
Collective, check out this video and you'll learn all about [N] Mid-Air Thief.
What is your favorite Animal Collective album, and where do I get started with the band?
The problem with Animal Collective is that each album is so incredibly unique from each other
that truly no two albums sound alike.
There might be some borrowed elements from albums,
but even then, the similarities kind of just end at the fact that they are using the same
instruments.
But I think two reasons that play into this is the fact that the band has a rotating
lineup.
It's less of a band and more of a collective.
There's four members in this collective.
Not all members have to be present for an album to be made.
This is a very interesting way of
collaboration that can spawn brand new ideas and thus keeping their music unique throughout their
entire career.
And I think the main reason why Animal Collective has stayed unique is the fact
that they're just really, really weird.
They just like to have fun, and they make that very apparent
in their [Ab] music.
They don't really like to keep things safe.
They just kind of play around and
see what sticks.
You know, it's like cooking pasta.
Hopefully your pasta is going to stick
to the wall.
If it does, that means it's ready to be released, you know?
Their sound never gets old
because they don't have a defined sound.
They're just weird.
My first experience with the band
personally was the album Sungtongs.
Winter's Love came up onto my Spotify Discover Weekly, and I
said, hey, that's a cool album cover.
I'm going to play the song from [Eb] the album instead of Discover
Weekly for some reason.
And so I listened to Winter's Love, and then immediately after it,
Kids on Holiday came on.
And what blew my mind was how vastly different these two songs were while
still keeping the same kind of musical tone, if that makes sense.
It does if you heard the album.
And then Sweet Road came on right after, and it was the same exact way.
I was like, this [Ab] is so
[N] different, but so cool, and yet so familiar.
And so I just dove into the album, and I fell in love
immediately.
This album was made by two of the band's members.
It was made by Panabear and Avitar,
and it's kind of classified as like freak folk music.
If you don't know what freak folk music is,
then you're in for a treat.
It's very weird.
Yeah.
The album's instrumentation basically just
lies with acoustic guitars, and there's some sample thrown in there as well.
But most of the
album's uniqueness comes from the vocals of Panabear and Avitar, and just the way that they
deliver their vocals.
It can be super outlandish at times, and really off-putting at times, like how
they start off the album with Leaf House.
There's that like middle portion where they're just kind
of going like, so don't be afraid if you have to listen to this album a few times before you fully
understand it and get it to click, which sounds very pretentious.
That's just the vibe of Animal
Collective.
So honestly, this album might be a good start for you if you like more acoustic music,
and you're looking for something a little bit more weird and off-putting.
And if you like this album,
then you'll definitely like their 2003 album, Campfire Songs.
This was an album made by Panabear,
Avitar, and Deacon, and it feels a lot more ambient-like than Sungtongues.
A lot more safer
as well.
It's not as freakish.
The album title is very fitting to the vibe of the music.
They
recorded this album all in one take outside on a porch.
You got these really cool like nature
sounds going on around you as you listen to this album, and each song transitions so perfectly into
the next because they recorded it all in one take.
If Freak Folk doesn't really get your attention,
and it doesn't sound like your vibe, I don't blame you.
It's kind of a scary-sounding genre.
Then definitely check out their album, Merriweather Post Pavilion.
This is their most
popular album.
Definitely their best-selling album.
This album had Animal Collective messing
around with more electronic experimentation.
Pretty much every song features super bright
synths.
And it's probably their most accessible album, and definitely their easiest album to
listen to, which is why a lot of people would say that this is probably the best starting point for
the band.
There's also incredible vocal work from Panda Bear and Aby Terror, and honestly,
some of the best melodies are featured on this album.
This album to me sounds like the soundtrack
to a perfect summer day.
And this album also has some of my favorite Animal Collective songs in it,
like Taste, and Guys Eyes, and um, what's that one called?
Summertime Clothes!
And if you enjoyed the
electronic experimentation and electronic instrumentation of Merriweather Post Pavilion,
then you'll probably like Painting With.
Kind of.
I personally haven't seen a lot of love for this
album, which is kind of unfortunate, but also kind of makes sense.
I feel like the pacing on this
album is very strange.
Sometimes just the track listing ruins the album, but that doesn't get rid
of the fact that it's still really good.
There's a bunch of like droney, kind of abrasive synths
in this album, and also the vocal work from Panda Bear and Aby Terror on this album is incredible.
And the melodies at times could be very dizzying.
Aby Terror and Panda Bear are just going like
back and forth, and back and forth, and back and forth, but then in songs like Golden Gals,
it's just super catchy.
Songs like Flora Da Da, Golden Gals, and On Delay just put a smile on my
face immediately once I hear it, and I can't help myself from just singing along to it because it's
so incredible to listen to and so freaking catchy.
Especially Flora Da Da, when the chorus comes on,
I can't stay still, dude.
And then another more electronic experimental album in the band's
discography is Centipede Hurts.
The concept of this album is that you're flipping through an
alien radio station in space, and so if that intrigues you, then check out the album.
This is
definitely the more experimental album in terms of their like electronic vibe discography, I guess.
And honestly, I think it's best enjoyed if you listen to some of their earlier work before you
check out Centipede Hurts.
It can get really weird at times.
I think the abrasiveness in Aby Terror's
vocals can be a little off-putting at times because he can just do these weird jumps in
his vocals that you aren't expecting, and it always keeps you on your toes.
An album that
might help you transition from Merriweather Post Pavilion to Centipede Hurts, or maybe like to
Song Tongues to Merriweather Post Pavilion, is Strawberry Jam.
I think this is a very transitional
album for listeners because it's probably Animal Collective's most all-over-the-place album.
You've
got a lot of songs that experiment with like electronic instrumentation like Peace Bone and
Number One, but then you also have songs that are more kind of in that freak folk vibe like Chores
and Unsolved Mysteries, but then you also got songs with really cool guitar playing and really
interesting guitar manipulation.
Songs like Forever in Green and Fireworks.
Much like Centipede
Hurts, this album does a fantastic job at showing off Aby Terror's vocals because once again, he's
really just making these weird freaking vocal jumps that you're really not expecting, and this
honestly might be the best place to start with Animal Collective.
I think Peace Bone is a great
introduction to the band.
That's the opening track on the album.
It's probably one of my favorite
Animal Collective songs.
If you really want to hear something weird and you really just want to
start off with their strangest albums, then start off with their first albums.
Pretty much up until
last week, I was a huge fan of all this stuff.
I avoided this stuff like the plague because I was
scared.
If you like being able to hear, maybe don't check this stuff out.
Jokes aside, the albums are
really good.
I'm talking about Spirit They Vanish and Dance Manatee.
Spirit They Vanish is a lot more
like spacey and a lot more mystical, but I put them together because they both feature the same
obnoxious, abrasive, high-frequency, loud-ass bullsh-t that could really put off a listener,
but has a super high payoff if you get past all that loud frequency bullsh-t that might damage
your hearing or make your dog run out of the room.
Trust me, especially with Spirit They Vanish, if
you let the songs develop, the payoff is worth it.
Now, if you want to feel like you're on the verge
of a panic attack, then go ahead and listen to Ark.
This album has such a hectic nature to it
that I don't think I've heard in any album ever.
If you want the full experience of this album,
listen to it in the middle of the night in a dark room.
If you get [B] scared, turn on the lights.
I
won't blame you.
Now, if you're an Animal Collective fan, you've probably noticed that
there's one album that I have not mentioned, and that is Feels.
This is my favorite Animal
Collective album of all time, and honestly, if you're a fan of more like indie rock stuff and
you're looking to get into something more [Bb] experimental, then this might be the best album
to start with with Animal Collective because it features [Bb] a lot of conventional instrumentation in
this album, I think.
Still pretty experimental and might be a little bit weird at times.
Trust me,
it took me a while to get into the bees.
The bees, the bees, the bees, the bees, the bees,
there's definitely [A] songs on this album that you'll love on the first listen, and there's [Bb] songs that
will take you a little bit to get into, but this album honestly feels like tasting candy for the
first time.
All of Animal Collective's albums have that kind of childlike wonderment feeling to them,
but this album in particular is just super mystical and just super childlike and just feels
so fun.
It honestly feels like you and your childhood friend just came across this forest
and you guys are exploring this forest for the first time.
Hands down the best Animal Collective
album.
If you have not listened to Animal Collective, I highly recommend you do.
Let me
know what your first Animal Collective experience was.
How did you feel about the band when you
first listened to them?
I oftentimes hear people comparing Mid-Air Thief to Animal Collective.
I
don't really hear it, but if you want to hear a band that's just equally as unique as Animal
Collective, check out this video and you'll learn all about [N] Mid-Air Thief.
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There are two questions that are hard for any [C] Animal Collective fan to answer.
What is your favorite Animal Collective album, and where do I get started with the band?
The problem with Animal Collective is that each album is so incredibly unique from each other
that truly no two albums sound alike.
There might be some borrowed elements from albums,
but even then, the similarities kind of just end at the fact that they are using the same
instruments.
But I think two reasons that play into this is the fact that the band has a rotating
lineup.
It's less of a band and more of a collective.
There's four members in this collective.
Not all members have to be present for an album to be made.
This is a very interesting way of
collaboration that can spawn brand new ideas and thus keeping their music unique throughout their
entire career.
And I think the main reason why Animal Collective has stayed unique is the fact
that they're just really, really weird.
They just like to have fun, and they make that very apparent
in their [Ab] music.
They don't really like to keep things safe.
They just kind of play around and
see what sticks.
You know, it's like cooking pasta.
Hopefully your pasta is going to stick
to the wall.
If it does, that means it's ready to be released, you know?
Their sound never gets old
because they don't have a defined sound.
They're just weird.
My first experience with the band
personally was the album Sungtongs.
Winter's Love came up onto my Spotify Discover Weekly, and I
said, hey, that's a cool album cover.
I'm going to play the song from [Eb] the album instead of Discover
Weekly for some reason.
And so I listened to Winter's Love, and then immediately after it,
Kids on Holiday came on.
And what blew my mind was how vastly different these two songs were while
still keeping the same kind of musical tone, if that makes sense.
It does if you heard the album.
And then Sweet Road came on right after, and it was the same exact way.
I was like, this [Ab] is so
[N] different, but so cool, and yet so familiar.
And so I just dove into the album, and I fell in love
immediately.
This album was made by two of the band's members.
It was made by Panabear and Avitar,
and it's kind of classified as like freak folk music.
If you don't know what freak folk music is,
then you're in for a treat.
It's very weird. _ _
Yeah.
The album's instrumentation basically just
lies with acoustic guitars, and there's some sample thrown in there as well.
But most of the
album's uniqueness comes from the vocals of Panabear and Avitar, and just the way that they
deliver their vocals.
It can be super outlandish at times, and really off-putting at times, like how
they start off the album with Leaf House.
There's that like middle portion where they're just kind
of going like, _ so don't be afraid if you have to listen to this album a few times before you fully
understand it and get it to click, which sounds very pretentious.
That's just the vibe of Animal
Collective.
So honestly, this album might be a good start for you if you like more acoustic music,
and you're looking for something a little bit more weird and off-putting.
And if you like this album,
then you'll definitely like their 2003 album, Campfire Songs.
This was an album made by Panabear,
Avitar, and Deacon, and it feels a lot more ambient-like than Sungtongues.
A lot more safer
as well.
It's not as freakish.
The album title is very fitting to the vibe of the music.
They
recorded this album all in one take outside on a porch.
You got these really cool like nature
sounds going on around you as you listen to this album, and each song transitions so perfectly into
the next because they recorded it all in one take.
If Freak Folk doesn't really get your attention,
and it doesn't sound like your vibe, I don't blame you.
It's kind of a scary-sounding genre.
Then definitely check out their album, Merriweather Post Pavilion.
This is their most
popular album.
Definitely their best-selling album.
This album had Animal Collective messing
around with more electronic experimentation.
Pretty much every song features super bright
synths.
And it's probably their most accessible album, and definitely their easiest album to
listen to, which is why a lot of people would say that this is probably the best starting point for
the band.
There's also incredible vocal work from Panda Bear and Aby Terror, and honestly,
some of the best melodies are featured on this album.
This album to me sounds like the soundtrack
to a perfect summer day.
And this album also has some of my favorite Animal Collective songs in it,
like Taste, and Guys Eyes, and um, what's that one called?
Summertime Clothes!
And if you enjoyed the
electronic experimentation and electronic instrumentation of Merriweather Post Pavilion,
then you'll probably like Painting With.
Kind of.
I personally haven't seen a lot of love for this
album, which is kind of unfortunate, but also kind of makes sense.
I feel like the pacing on this
album is very strange.
Sometimes just the track listing ruins the album, but that doesn't get rid
of the fact that it's still really good.
There's a bunch of like droney, kind of abrasive synths
in this album, and also the vocal work from Panda Bear and Aby Terror on this album is incredible.
And the melodies at times could be very dizzying.
Aby Terror and Panda Bear are just going like
back and forth, and back and forth, and back and forth, but then in songs like Golden Gals,
it's just super catchy.
Songs like Flora Da Da, Golden Gals, and On Delay just put a smile on my
face immediately once I hear it, and I can't help myself from just singing along to it because it's
so incredible to listen to and so freaking catchy.
Especially Flora Da Da, when the chorus comes on,
I can't stay still, dude.
And then another more electronic experimental album in the band's
discography is Centipede Hurts.
The concept of this album is that you're flipping through an
alien radio station in space, and so if that intrigues you, then check out the album.
This is
definitely the more experimental album in terms of their like electronic vibe discography, I guess.
And honestly, I think it's best enjoyed if you listen to some of their earlier work before you
check out Centipede Hurts.
It can get really weird at times.
I think the abrasiveness in Aby Terror's
vocals can be a little off-putting at times because he can just do these weird jumps in
his vocals that you aren't expecting, and it always keeps you on your toes.
An album that
might help you transition from Merriweather Post Pavilion to Centipede Hurts, or maybe like to
Song Tongues to Merriweather Post Pavilion, is Strawberry Jam.
I think this is a very transitional
album for listeners because it's probably Animal Collective's most all-over-the-place album.
You've
got a lot of songs that experiment with like electronic instrumentation like Peace Bone and
Number One, but then you also have songs that are more kind of in that freak folk vibe like Chores
and Unsolved Mysteries, but then you also got songs with really cool guitar playing and really
interesting guitar manipulation.
Songs like Forever in Green and Fireworks.
Much like Centipede
Hurts, this album does a fantastic job at showing off Aby Terror's vocals because once again, he's
really just making these weird freaking vocal jumps that you're really not expecting, and this
honestly might be the best place to start with Animal Collective.
I think Peace Bone is a great
introduction to the band.
That's the opening track on the album.
It's probably one of my favorite
Animal Collective songs.
If you really want to hear something weird and you really just want to
start off with their strangest albums, then start off with their first albums.
Pretty much up until
last week, I was a huge fan of all this stuff.
I avoided this stuff like the plague because I was
scared.
If you like being able to hear, maybe don't check this stuff out.
Jokes aside, the albums are
really good.
I'm talking about Spirit They Vanish and Dance Manatee.
Spirit They Vanish is a lot more
like spacey and a lot more mystical, but I put them together because they both feature the same
_ obnoxious, abrasive, high-frequency, loud-ass bullsh-t that could really put off a listener,
but has a super high payoff if you get past all that loud frequency bullsh-t that might damage
your hearing or make your dog run out of the room.
Trust me, especially with Spirit They Vanish, if
you let the songs develop, the payoff is worth it.
Now, if you want to feel like you're on the verge
of a panic attack, then go ahead and listen to Ark.
This album has such a hectic nature to it
that I don't think I've heard in any album ever.
If you want the full experience of this album,
listen to it in the middle of the night in a dark room.
If you get [B] scared, turn on the lights.
I
won't blame you.
Now, if you're an Animal Collective fan, you've probably noticed that
there's one album that I have not mentioned, and that is Feels.
This is my favorite Animal
Collective album of all time, and honestly, if you're a fan of more like indie rock stuff and
you're looking to get into something more [Bb] experimental, then this might be the best album
to start with with Animal Collective because it features [Bb] a lot of conventional instrumentation in
this album, I think.
Still pretty experimental and might be a little bit weird at times.
Trust me,
it took me a while to get into the bees.
The bees, the bees, the bees, the bees, the bees,
there's definitely [A] songs on this album that you'll love on the first listen, and there's [Bb] songs that
will take you a little bit to get into, but this album honestly feels like tasting candy for the
first time.
All of Animal Collective's albums have that kind of childlike wonderment feeling to them,
but this album in particular is just super mystical and just super childlike and just feels
so fun.
It honestly feels like you and your childhood friend just came across this forest
and you guys are exploring this forest for the first time.
Hands down the best Animal Collective
album.
If you have not listened to Animal Collective, I highly recommend you do.
Let me
know what your first Animal Collective experience was.
How did you feel about the band when you
first listened to them?
I oftentimes hear people comparing Mid-Air Thief to Animal Collective.
I
don't really hear it, but if you want to hear a band that's just equally as unique as Animal
Collective, check out this video and you'll learn all about [N] Mid-Air Thief.
What is your favorite Animal Collective album, and where do I get started with the band?
The problem with Animal Collective is that each album is so incredibly unique from each other
that truly no two albums sound alike.
There might be some borrowed elements from albums,
but even then, the similarities kind of just end at the fact that they are using the same
instruments.
But I think two reasons that play into this is the fact that the band has a rotating
lineup.
It's less of a band and more of a collective.
There's four members in this collective.
Not all members have to be present for an album to be made.
This is a very interesting way of
collaboration that can spawn brand new ideas and thus keeping their music unique throughout their
entire career.
And I think the main reason why Animal Collective has stayed unique is the fact
that they're just really, really weird.
They just like to have fun, and they make that very apparent
in their [Ab] music.
They don't really like to keep things safe.
They just kind of play around and
see what sticks.
You know, it's like cooking pasta.
Hopefully your pasta is going to stick
to the wall.
If it does, that means it's ready to be released, you know?
Their sound never gets old
because they don't have a defined sound.
They're just weird.
My first experience with the band
personally was the album Sungtongs.
Winter's Love came up onto my Spotify Discover Weekly, and I
said, hey, that's a cool album cover.
I'm going to play the song from [Eb] the album instead of Discover
Weekly for some reason.
And so I listened to Winter's Love, and then immediately after it,
Kids on Holiday came on.
And what blew my mind was how vastly different these two songs were while
still keeping the same kind of musical tone, if that makes sense.
It does if you heard the album.
And then Sweet Road came on right after, and it was the same exact way.
I was like, this [Ab] is so
[N] different, but so cool, and yet so familiar.
And so I just dove into the album, and I fell in love
immediately.
This album was made by two of the band's members.
It was made by Panabear and Avitar,
and it's kind of classified as like freak folk music.
If you don't know what freak folk music is,
then you're in for a treat.
It's very weird. _ _
Yeah.
The album's instrumentation basically just
lies with acoustic guitars, and there's some sample thrown in there as well.
But most of the
album's uniqueness comes from the vocals of Panabear and Avitar, and just the way that they
deliver their vocals.
It can be super outlandish at times, and really off-putting at times, like how
they start off the album with Leaf House.
There's that like middle portion where they're just kind
of going like, _ so don't be afraid if you have to listen to this album a few times before you fully
understand it and get it to click, which sounds very pretentious.
That's just the vibe of Animal
Collective.
So honestly, this album might be a good start for you if you like more acoustic music,
and you're looking for something a little bit more weird and off-putting.
And if you like this album,
then you'll definitely like their 2003 album, Campfire Songs.
This was an album made by Panabear,
Avitar, and Deacon, and it feels a lot more ambient-like than Sungtongues.
A lot more safer
as well.
It's not as freakish.
The album title is very fitting to the vibe of the music.
They
recorded this album all in one take outside on a porch.
You got these really cool like nature
sounds going on around you as you listen to this album, and each song transitions so perfectly into
the next because they recorded it all in one take.
If Freak Folk doesn't really get your attention,
and it doesn't sound like your vibe, I don't blame you.
It's kind of a scary-sounding genre.
Then definitely check out their album, Merriweather Post Pavilion.
This is their most
popular album.
Definitely their best-selling album.
This album had Animal Collective messing
around with more electronic experimentation.
Pretty much every song features super bright
synths.
And it's probably their most accessible album, and definitely their easiest album to
listen to, which is why a lot of people would say that this is probably the best starting point for
the band.
There's also incredible vocal work from Panda Bear and Aby Terror, and honestly,
some of the best melodies are featured on this album.
This album to me sounds like the soundtrack
to a perfect summer day.
And this album also has some of my favorite Animal Collective songs in it,
like Taste, and Guys Eyes, and um, what's that one called?
Summertime Clothes!
And if you enjoyed the
electronic experimentation and electronic instrumentation of Merriweather Post Pavilion,
then you'll probably like Painting With.
Kind of.
I personally haven't seen a lot of love for this
album, which is kind of unfortunate, but also kind of makes sense.
I feel like the pacing on this
album is very strange.
Sometimes just the track listing ruins the album, but that doesn't get rid
of the fact that it's still really good.
There's a bunch of like droney, kind of abrasive synths
in this album, and also the vocal work from Panda Bear and Aby Terror on this album is incredible.
And the melodies at times could be very dizzying.
Aby Terror and Panda Bear are just going like
back and forth, and back and forth, and back and forth, but then in songs like Golden Gals,
it's just super catchy.
Songs like Flora Da Da, Golden Gals, and On Delay just put a smile on my
face immediately once I hear it, and I can't help myself from just singing along to it because it's
so incredible to listen to and so freaking catchy.
Especially Flora Da Da, when the chorus comes on,
I can't stay still, dude.
And then another more electronic experimental album in the band's
discography is Centipede Hurts.
The concept of this album is that you're flipping through an
alien radio station in space, and so if that intrigues you, then check out the album.
This is
definitely the more experimental album in terms of their like electronic vibe discography, I guess.
And honestly, I think it's best enjoyed if you listen to some of their earlier work before you
check out Centipede Hurts.
It can get really weird at times.
I think the abrasiveness in Aby Terror's
vocals can be a little off-putting at times because he can just do these weird jumps in
his vocals that you aren't expecting, and it always keeps you on your toes.
An album that
might help you transition from Merriweather Post Pavilion to Centipede Hurts, or maybe like to
Song Tongues to Merriweather Post Pavilion, is Strawberry Jam.
I think this is a very transitional
album for listeners because it's probably Animal Collective's most all-over-the-place album.
You've
got a lot of songs that experiment with like electronic instrumentation like Peace Bone and
Number One, but then you also have songs that are more kind of in that freak folk vibe like Chores
and Unsolved Mysteries, but then you also got songs with really cool guitar playing and really
interesting guitar manipulation.
Songs like Forever in Green and Fireworks.
Much like Centipede
Hurts, this album does a fantastic job at showing off Aby Terror's vocals because once again, he's
really just making these weird freaking vocal jumps that you're really not expecting, and this
honestly might be the best place to start with Animal Collective.
I think Peace Bone is a great
introduction to the band.
That's the opening track on the album.
It's probably one of my favorite
Animal Collective songs.
If you really want to hear something weird and you really just want to
start off with their strangest albums, then start off with their first albums.
Pretty much up until
last week, I was a huge fan of all this stuff.
I avoided this stuff like the plague because I was
scared.
If you like being able to hear, maybe don't check this stuff out.
Jokes aside, the albums are
really good.
I'm talking about Spirit They Vanish and Dance Manatee.
Spirit They Vanish is a lot more
like spacey and a lot more mystical, but I put them together because they both feature the same
_ obnoxious, abrasive, high-frequency, loud-ass bullsh-t that could really put off a listener,
but has a super high payoff if you get past all that loud frequency bullsh-t that might damage
your hearing or make your dog run out of the room.
Trust me, especially with Spirit They Vanish, if
you let the songs develop, the payoff is worth it.
Now, if you want to feel like you're on the verge
of a panic attack, then go ahead and listen to Ark.
This album has such a hectic nature to it
that I don't think I've heard in any album ever.
If you want the full experience of this album,
listen to it in the middle of the night in a dark room.
If you get [B] scared, turn on the lights.
I
won't blame you.
Now, if you're an Animal Collective fan, you've probably noticed that
there's one album that I have not mentioned, and that is Feels.
This is my favorite Animal
Collective album of all time, and honestly, if you're a fan of more like indie rock stuff and
you're looking to get into something more [Bb] experimental, then this might be the best album
to start with with Animal Collective because it features [Bb] a lot of conventional instrumentation in
this album, I think.
Still pretty experimental and might be a little bit weird at times.
Trust me,
it took me a while to get into the bees.
The bees, the bees, the bees, the bees, the bees,
there's definitely [A] songs on this album that you'll love on the first listen, and there's [Bb] songs that
will take you a little bit to get into, but this album honestly feels like tasting candy for the
first time.
All of Animal Collective's albums have that kind of childlike wonderment feeling to them,
but this album in particular is just super mystical and just super childlike and just feels
so fun.
It honestly feels like you and your childhood friend just came across this forest
and you guys are exploring this forest for the first time.
Hands down the best Animal Collective
album.
If you have not listened to Animal Collective, I highly recommend you do.
Let me
know what your first Animal Collective experience was.
How did you feel about the band when you
first listened to them?
I oftentimes hear people comparing Mid-Air Thief to Animal Collective.
I
don't really hear it, but if you want to hear a band that's just equally as unique as Animal
Collective, check out this video and you'll learn all about [N] Mid-Air Thief.