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18 Dec 2009 10:07

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Music: Pitchfork’s album of the year an obvious, expected choice

28 Mar 2009 02:45

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Music: Why is Animal Collective so strange? They don’t know how to play.

  • At this point we’re so beyond being able to communicate with each other that way, that we just kind of developed our own language in terms of music-making. And that’s why it’s not important to us.
  • Dave Portner (a.k.a. Avey Tare) • In an interview with Pitchfork talking about their unique approach to making music, which, as most of you know, critics and a capella groups really like. They’re even making inroads into the mainstream. Good for them! • source

09 Mar 2009 00:49

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Music, Politics: Our rating of the redesigned Pitchfork Web site

05 Jan 2009 05:15

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Music: Why Pitchfork gave Animal Collective a glowing review

  • Everything that’s defined the band to this point – all those strands winding through their hugely diverse catalog – is refined and amplified here.
  • Mark Richardson • Who could be conservatively referred to as “gushing” about Merriweather Post Pavilion. He refers to it as their “pop” album. • source

05 Jan 2009 05:13

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Music: “Merriweather Post Pavilion” album of the year? Well, that was fast.

  • 9.6 Pitchfork’s rating of the new Animal Collective record source