Raised around Baltimore but currently based in the artistic hotbed of Brooklyn, NY, the Animal Collective comprises a bunch of musical iconoclasts long on avant-garde conceptual theory and short on patience for pop tropes. To call them avant-rock would be too limiting; though there are elements of electronica, psychedelic freakout and DIY post-punk madness in their sound, Here Comes The Indian is no spot-the-influence parlour game. If anything, the Collective's gloriously skewed perspective and kitchen-sink production make them spiritual kin to The Residents, whose absurdist humour the AC also shares, with members sporting names like Panda Bear and Geologist.
Raised around Baltimore but currently based in the artistic hotbed of Brooklyn, NY, the Animal Collective comprises a bunch of musical iconoclasts long on avant-garde conceptual theory and short on patience for pop tropes. To call them avant-rock would be too limiting; though there are elements of electronica, psychedelic freakout and DIY post-punk madness in their sound, Here Comes The Indian is no spot-the-influence parlour game. If anything, the Collective’s gloriously skewed perspective and kitchen-sink production make them spiritual kin to The Residents, whose absurdist humour the AC also shares, with members sporting names like Panda Bear and Geologist.
