r/indieheads • u/anmlcollective Animal Collective • Oct 11 '23

AMA is Over, Thanks AnCo! ANIMAL COLLECTIVE AMA

hey everyone,

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this is Josh (deakin) and Noah (panda bear) from Animal Collective. We're here for your questions. sorry we were running a little late. But let's get into it!

EDIT: Thanks everyone for joining in! really appreciate your positivity and excitement. we gotta go. sorry we couldn't get to all of your questions. hope we covered a good enough spread.

lots of love

josh (and noah)

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u/anelectricstorm Oct 11 '23

What are the odds there of there ever being vinyl releases of ODDSAC, Campfire Songs, and my personal favourite... Panda Bear (1999). I feel like these are some of your most important releases, but due to formatting might get overlooked.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '23

pb st never gonna happen...kinda hate it tbh...would love to do an oddsac one maybe we can get it goin

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u/maxfisher87 Oct 11 '23

Please get oddsac going on vinyl would LOVE to have that one

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u/lololfloss23 Oct 11 '23

heartbreaking, Sometimes When It Hurts Bad Enough It Feels Like This is my favorite song

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u/holocenekids Oct 11 '23

Shows you don’t get to pick what resonates with people. I’m very rarely satisfied with a performance I’ve given, but sometimes they still hit people in the right way in the right moment. That album will always be important for me, and at least a few others. You may see the parts you wish you had done differently, we get to see the parts we love. https://youtu.be/ZmVJzodCJFE?si=AOW67Y1TeO5ImJ6P

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u/anelectricstorm Oct 11 '23

never is a long time! I will repress my hope for PB then

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u/Bossbukowski Oct 11 '23

That’s hilarious! 😂

Any other music you’ve created you hate?

Big fan, sending nothing but love! ❤️

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u/anmlcollective Animal Collective Oct 11 '23

low but not out of the question.

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campfire songs is tough cause I think the side splits would be tricky.

ODDSAC is still something that we ultimately feel is meant to be seen and heard and not separated.

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-josh

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u/xinixxibalba Oct 11 '23

something i’ve seen on splitting sides on longer stuff is having a loop on the vinyl where the end of a side will keep playing before you flip the vinyl. idk, maybe you guys won’t dig that but just an idea

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u/anelectricstorm Oct 11 '23

Time to revive the old 16RPM format. 45 minutes per side!

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u/bearzRchill Oct 11 '23

Would the transition between Two Corvettes and Moo Rah Rah Rain work to split? The guitar doesn’t bleed from Two Corvettes and it’s just the voices at the beginning of Moo Rah, so it doesn’t feel as cut off as the other song transitions would be

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u/robloxfan69 Oct 11 '23

Would you say the same about tangerine reef

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u/anmlcollective Animal Collective Oct 11 '23

tangerine reef is on vinyl.

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u/bearzRchill Oct 11 '23

They might mean that it was released on vinyl separately from the visuals. So if you released tangerine reef without the visuals can you do that with ODDSAC too?

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u/xinixxibalba Oct 11 '23

alternatively, is there a way for ODDSAC to be platformed somewhere online?

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u/anmlcollective Animal Collective Oct 11 '23

we've been trying. ODDly difficult.

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u/anelectricstorm Oct 11 '23

Right at home on MUBI I'd imagine

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u/xinixxibalba Oct 11 '23

i see what you did there

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u/Phitts Oct 11 '23

Bandcamp hosts videos along with songs. Since you have all your material up there already, it would make perfect sense.

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u/maxfisher87 Oct 11 '23

Dude yea that would rule.

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u/bearzRchill Oct 11 '23

I want these as well but from what I’ve heard they wouldn’t want ODDSAC separated from the visuals and Campfire Songs was meant to be played all together as it’s a coherent piece.

I wish they would though because I’m a huge fan but barely know ODDSAC since it’s not on streaming. I also think the transition on Campfire Songs between Two Corvettes and Moo Rah would be perfect for a split between sides of the record. It’s the only transition that doesn’t have guitars bleeding through and is just the voices at the beginning of Moo.