Tag: animal collective
The sleepy, late-night programming block of Adult Swim continues to overtake our cultural consciousness, recently dropping a psychadelic track by Panda Bear, otherwise known as Animal Collective’s Noah Benjamin Lennox. Now, San Francisco studio Encyclopedia Pictura has animated the song, “Boys Latin,” which will appear on forthcoming “Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper.” In the […]
Artist Abby Portner, who designed the album art for Animal Collective‘s latest Centipede Hz (and who is the sister of co-bandleader Avey Tare), has been the self-dubbed “visual person” for the band since the early 2000s, designing multilayered tour visuals that turn live music into a unified multisensory experience. In collaboration with Creators Project, they’ve […]
Lyrically, Animal Collective’s “Applesauce” is a song about the simple sensory pleasures of eating a good fruit, and possibly the fear of death and environmental collapse that comes with a good fruit’s decay. Sonically, it’s complete overload, taking the more-is-more approach of 2007’s Strawberry Jam to its logical conclusion–all polyrhythmic drumming, burbling synthesizers, and frantically melodic vocals. Enter […]
