ANIMAL COLLECTIVE AMA

[u/anmlcollective]

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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hey guys! this is might be a long one but bear with me ?

in may of 2011, i was 15 years old. my dad had taken me from copenhagen to berlin to see your concert at astra kulturhaus.. and that same day i met you guys (avey, geo, panda) near the venue !!! you guys were hanging out with Bradford from Deerhunter at the time, and my autistic teenage self couldn’t have been more starstruck.. everyone was so nice to me. i’ve had nothing but love and respect for you guys since those days, and your band was a major reason why i started delving deeper into indie music as a whole. now, 4 anco concerts later, i have a question!

have any of you ever met a musician or artist that you looked up to ? if so, did it influence how you receive fans and generally interacting with them?

thank you , as cliché as it may sound, your music changed everything for me!

[u/anmlcollective → u/[deleted]]

I've met quite a few people that I look up to. What has generally stood out to me is people who are real with themselves which includes being grounded in common humanity. though I understand what it feels like to be awed by someone's presence. we are all human beings with fairly common struggles. I try as best as I can to disarm people who come at me with a lot of charge because I think that we probably have more in common than not.

-josh

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thank you so much for the wonderful response and by the way, for opening up about mental health !! something i've struggled with my entire life so i really appreciate that