Blog: State Magazine

A couple of minutes into the opening song on Animal Collective's new EP, Panda Bear interrupts the thoughts of his bandmate Avey Tare to self-consciously wonder aloud "how does a band turn into such a thing?". Having first made their mark upon the world just after the dawn of the millennium with the unreal-sounding Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished , this EP serves a sort of Auld Lang Syne to a decade which should - justice-serving - see the group remembered alongside far less exciting happenings like terrorism and financial crises. Aurally, they've been all-encompassing, journeying [...]