The first time amandapetrusich heard what is now considered Animal Collective’s début album, “it sounded, to me, like a million faraway meteors pinging off one another, lighting up the sky on some oozy summer night.”
In the early two-thousands, indie rock—a genre once characterized by dissonance, subversion, and exclusivity—was in the throes of an identity crisis. Musical classifications are often fluid, but indie rock was long defined by rigid boundaries. No bullshit, no capitulations to the mainstream; guitars, sternly crossed arms, seven-inch singles, glasses. It’s difficult to say when, precisely, indie rock loosened its grip on itself.
Of these new bands, Animal Collective, which formed in Baltimore in 2003, was the most ambitious and divisive. Its four members took on curious sobriquets—Avey Tare , Panda Bear , Deakin , and Geologist —and often performed in costume. Their videos conveyed an experience not dissimilar to that of being on a large dose of psychedelic drugs.
Animal Collective has always owed a musical debt to the Beach Boys , but the band tends to hedge its tunefulness, leaning more heavily on avant-garde touchpoints. “Walker,” on “Time Skiffs,” takes its name from Scott Walker, whose deep, quivering baritone made him a teen-pop sensation in the U.K. in the nineteen-sixties. Later in his career, Walker used his voice to more outré ends, making dark, experimental records that tottered between overwhelming and gorgeous.
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