Let's Revisit Animal Collective

Indiecast

UPROXX

Music, Indie Music, Music Commentary, Indie Rock

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

It’s been teased for weeks now, but the time has finally come: Indiecast is delving into the career and music of Animal Collective. At one point in the aughts, the Baltimore-based group was inextricable from the overall concept of indie rock, and thus indie rock as an actual force in pop music. These days, however, the band seems to have little to no profile or lasting impact. What happened in the last decade or so that forced one of the most important bands in the genre into near obscurity? In the latest episode of Indiecast, Steven and Ian look to get to the bottom of this mystery, while also reevaluating some of the band’s definitive works like Merriweather Post Pavilion and Centipede Hz.

In this week’s Recommendation Corner, Ian is digging Florida quartet Home Is Where, who just released the new EP I Became Birds. Meanwhile, Steven is enjoying the long-running rotating collective of musicians releasing projects under the name Sunburned Hand Of The Man.

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0:00.0	Indycast is presented by Uprox's Indy Mix tape.
0:12.8	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Indycast.
0:14.8	On this show, we talk about the biggest indie news of the week.
0:17.0	We review albums and we hash out trends.
0:19.3	In this episode, we're going to be doing a deep dive
0:21.6	into one of the most significant indie acts of the 2000s Animal Collective. My name is Stephen
0:27.3	Hayden, and I'm joined by my friend and co-host Ian Cohen. Ian, how are you? You know, Steve,
0:33.1	with each passing year, I come to terms with the fact that I'm just not the person and definitely
0:39.1	not the music writer that I used to be. I, as you, I'm sure you know, a new Kings of Leon
0:45.9	album is dropping today. And, you know, my approach to that in the years past would have been,
0:52.7	okay, who can I pay me to just write about this
0:55.1	and just shit all over it? And I don't know. Can I just say quick that like, I think a lot of our listeners would have no idea that a new Kings of Leon album is coming out. I didn't really either. Like, I'm like, oh, look at that. They're, uh, they're still going. Uh, and what's it, What's it called?
0:51.2	I don't know.
0:53.7	I honestly don't know.
1:13.1	I honestly don't know, dude.
1:15.8	I was about to say, like, sometime around midnight, but that's either, like, one of their
1:20.6	old album titles or, like, that airborne toxic event song.
1:23.6	Like, maybe I'm just getting, like, bands I shit on in 2008 conflated.
1:27.1	But, you know, like, I shit on in 2008 conflated.
1:43.8	But, you know, like I actually, as little information as I know about the title, like, I approach this album thinking like not in the usual sense, but more like, is it possible that like Kings of Leon actually have some bangers when you think about it?
1:44.2	Like could they be one of those bands that we've talked about, like being resuscitated through like a greatest hits? Now, I get the feeling you're the type to say that like, aha shake, heartbreak, that first album was an actual good, not just like, you know, kind of... That's their second album, by the way. That's their second. Youth and Young Manhood is their first. The new album is called When You See Yourself. Oh.
1:44.6	And, you know, kind of... That's their second album, by the way. That's their second. Youth and Young Manhood is their first.
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