For Your Ears Only: Animal Collective

Animal CollectivePhoto Cred: Kumo Music

WHO: Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deakin (Josh Dibb), Geologist (Brian Weitz)

ORIGIN: Baltimore, Maryland

FORMED: 2000

GENRE: Experimental/psychedelic folk rock

LATEST RELEASE: Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

WHO CARES?: Latest release received five-star review by Uncut Magazine and an A- review by Entertainment Weekly, was also credited to be 2009’s first great album.

SOUNDS LIKE: A trippy illusion poster translated into music.

LISTEN TO: “Summertime Clothes”, “Daily Routine”

Check out this video of the quartet at Coachella 08′.

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