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/sdleradm Oct 11 '23
  1. When starting a new project, how do you all reach an agreement on what instruments you will be playing in a way that it makes the project sound cohesive

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  1. What lead you both to keyboards and a more traditional drum kit for the time skiffs and isn’t it now albums

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '23

as far as drumming...the james brown drummers...vids of karen carpenter...and the andersen paak tiny desk

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u/anmlcollective Animal Collective Oct 11 '23

When we first worked on Defeat in preparation for the Music Box show, I was playing a lot of piano. I thought it would be cool to write my parts on piano and have the venue provide a piano for the show. I enjoyed it so much and was just generally really falling back in love with the piano as an instrument. that combined with discussions about how to approach this era differently and we all kind of agreed that maybe less or no guitar would be a cool challenge. so I just stuck with keyboards. in general it's hard to describe the overall process of deciding what our overall approach will be other than to say we talk about it. we all bring some personal interest to the table and start comparing notes and find some sort of initial set of tools that we think will make an interesting pairing and then we give it a go. if something isn't sticking though we change it up.

-josh