Blog: Pigeons and Planes

With Merriweather Post Pavilion , somehow Animal Collective managed to wrangle in all the psychedelic chaos just enough to create something accessible. It was an album that still kept that edge that AC fans loved, but gave enough melody and structure to give it a low barrier to entry. You might think, "Oooh Animal Collective is going mainstream now, their next album is going to be pop hitz and Rihanna guest spots." Not the case. Here's what AC member John "Deakin" Dibb had to say about the band's next album, Centipede Hz : [...]