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Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 11, 2016 5:02 am

I guess this podcast interview went under the radar. The interview starts at the 27 minute mark - http://nerdist.com/puck-soup-8-geologis ... ollective/

It's pretty much all hockey oriented, but within it, Geo reveals that there is a leftover song from the PW sessions called "Goalie" (written by Noah) which samples Mike "Doc" Emrick, the sports announcer, during the 2010 Stanley Cup Final. Here's hoping it pops up on a future EP...

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 11, 2016 5:09 am

awesome! that's exciting

Post **Posted:** Thu Jul 14, 2016 2:18 pm

super bummer that all those pre-HCTI interviews are gone. Does anyone know where I can read any of them?

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 16, 2016 4:41 pm

Love when they randomly drop football references into their work. Benfica, Footie, et cetera (the et cetera casually sidesteps the fact that that's all there is). Would love if they made COYBIG track

Post **Posted:** Sat Jul 16, 2016 4:42 pm

Also just realized goalie doesn't strictly relate to just football and could reference a number of sports. Fuck

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2016 11:16 am

a rare 1

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2016 11:19 pm

This is amazing <3 Panda so chill like go make some drum samples yo

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2016 11:24 pm

He seems like the biggest jerk ever .... jk

Post **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2016 11:43 pm

It's so boring being one of the most inventive vocalists of your generation

Post **Posted:** Tue Jul 26, 2016 4:20 pm

Victor Borge wrote:

This Geo interview is great http://observer.com/2016/02/how-animal- ... ting-with/

Can't remember if it got posted back in February, it probably did and I missed it. They talk about Terrence McKenna a little bit. Geo says Panda is "kind of the least into psychedelic culture" out of the band

this interview is so great

Post **Posted:** Sun Aug 07, 2016 11:05 am

PM me if there's ever an interview where they talk about the 'once merciful gift of time and place and knowing such a way to combine such elements'
what i'm saying is that there's a fire that gets lit and it burns super bright but inevitably will go out for anyone and it'd really do my life in to see an interview where the boys acknowledge their particular mark on the genre and just give it a nice burial.

Post **Posted:** Thu Oct 27, 2016 7:31 pm

El Camino wrote:

Victor Borge wrote:
This Geo interview is great http://observer.com/2016/02/how-animal- ... ting-with/

Can't remember if it got posted back in February, it probably did and I missed it. They talk about Terrence McKenna a little bit. Geo says Panda is "kind of the least into psychedelic culture" out of the band

this interview is so great

Cool to hear the little bits about Noah.

Post **Posted:** Thu Nov 03, 2016 4:02 pm

anyone know what happened to the second hcti interview? seems alot of the early interviews are gone.

Post **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2016 9:03 pm

Just came across this amazing old interview maybe some of you have not read

http://wayback.archive.org/web/20130926 ... p?id=11022

Post **Posted:** Fri Dec 16, 2016 9:54 pm

good work, the link in the OP is broken

http://www.parkschool.net/files/resourc ... edited.pdf is this interview with the TTG boys missing?

e:
https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections ... #p11z-6r0f:

here's a working link for the missing hcti interview

Post **Posted:** Mon Dec 26, 2016 9:14 pm

http://www.vinylmeplease.com/magazine/l ... son-pitch/

Post **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2017 6:25 pm

i know this has been asked before but does their senior project exist anywhere? i'm pretty sure the answer is no.. but do they even have it still? or has it been lost?

Post **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2017 7:13 pm

You mean this right?

http://www.spin.com/2012/09/avey-tare-a ... l-project/

wrote:

Geologist: My wife, who was my girlfriend at the time, still has a cassette in her huge thing of dubbed cassettes from high school. You can see in marker: BRIAN + DAVE.

Post **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2017 7:23 pm

Brb, breaking into Geologist's house and raiding his wife's casettes

Post **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2017 8:33 pm

yes! let me know how your venture goes

Post **Posted:** Tue May 09, 2017 2:12 am

Apologies to all I haven't been keeping up this thread as much as I should. I will say a large part of that is how arduous it is summarizing the interviews this album cycle. Journalists seem to be making them re-iterate their press release for most of these. I will do my best to get over it soon.

Also I just got their guest-edited Fader, want a not-shitty way to share it. Good stuff

Post **Posted:** Thu May 11, 2017 10:10 am

nice work man ! I never noticed that you summerized each interviews

Post **Posted:** Wed May 24, 2017 8:46 am

moogfest interview with Animal Collective & Syrnix hosted by Hannibal Buresss https://youtu.be/2R4CYf_lhF4

Post **Posted:** Thu May 25, 2017 1:56 am

baconwizard wrote:

moogfest interview with Animal Collective & Syrnix hosted by Hannibal Buresss https://youtu.be/2R4CYf_lhF4

Pretty funny and awkward. Loved how they commented about this picture:

Post **Posted:** Fri Jun 09, 2017 2:16 pm

thebackdrifter wrote:

baconwizard wrote:
moogfest interview with Animal Collective & Syrnix hosted by Hannibal Buresss https://youtu.be/2R4CYf_lhF4

Pretty funny and awkward. Loved how they commented about this picture:

timestamp?

ALSO: anyone have a link to that one 'interview' of Panda commenting on select songs from every AC album? Starts with Spirit They've Vanished.

Post **Posted:** Fri Jun 09, 2017 9:44 pm

yaava wrote:

thebackdrifter wrote:
baconwizard wrote:
moogfest interview with Animal Collective & Syrnix hosted by Hannibal Buresss https://youtu.be/2R4CYf_lhF4

Pretty funny and awkward. Loved how they commented about this picture:

timestamp?

ALSO: anyone have a link to that one 'interview' of Panda commenting on select songs from every AC album? Starts with Spirit They've Vanished.

It starts around 29mins in where they about their lyrics being misinterpreted/not understandable by most people
Specifically the Conan story starts at 30m20s
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R4CYf_ ... e&t=30m20s[/youtube]

Post **Posted:** Fri Jun 30, 2017 11:58 am

this is probably in the eucalyptus thread but since it freebirded I'm not looking in there so I'm posting it here check it out:
Avey talking about Eucalyptus being really really candind about the process and some relationships etc etc:
http://www.stereogum.com/1949626/qa-ave ... interview/

it's REALLY GOOD!!

Post **Posted:** Tue Jul 04, 2017 5:29 pm

In 2009, the group played “Summertime Clothes” on Late Show with David Letterman, a clear reminder that Animal Collective exists on the periphery of the entertainment industry.

“Paul Schaffer was really nice to us and acted like he listens and cared,” said Portner. “And David Letterman just made fun of our record cover.”

Things were even worse two years earlier when the group made its national television debut on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, where they remember switching gears at the last minute and performing “#1.”

“Conan O’Brien we’d heard was a really big music fan, and I’m friendly with the guys in Yeasayer, I’ve known them for forever,” said Weitz. “And they said, ‘He was really psyched to have us on the show, he loved our record.’ And I was like, ‘Really? He talked to us about how the Amtrak went through Baltimore, and that was it.’ We changed the song at the last minute, and I think he got word of it and was pretty bummed.”

Dibb remembered almost no direct communication from the lanky host following their performance.

“He actually didn’t say anything to us at all, but after we played he walked through and as he was shaking my hand, he said to the camera, ‘Baltimore, huh? I went through there on Amtrak once,’” Dibb recalled. “Cool. Nice to meet you.”

http://www.popmatters.com/feature/16293 ... ective/P1/

Post **Posted:** Tue Jul 04, 2017 6:53 pm

wrote:

“My work ethic I think is a bit stronger,” he said about fatherhood. “I feel like I can push past exhaustion more. Being a musician can sometimes be a cushiony lifestyle, and I have to think, ‘You know, for the next two weeks I’m not just going to smoke pot.’”

Not all heroes wear capes

Post **Posted:** Tue Jul 04, 2017 10:26 pm

jetski wrote:

wrote:
“My work ethic I think is a bit stronger,” he said about fatherhood. “I feel like I can push past exhaustion more. Being a musician can sometimes be a cushiony lifestyle, and I have to think, ‘You know, for the next two weeks I’m not just going to smoke pot.’”

Not all heroes wear capes

Hahahahaha

Post **Posted:** Fri Nov 10, 2017 1:20 am

i was just reading through some of the interviews in this thread and found this bit of gold from 2009

Noah Lennox wrote:

I don't like our music.

Post **Posted:** Fri Nov 10, 2017 6:34 am

I really hope Noah was kidding

Post **Posted:** Fri Nov 10, 2017 5:56 pm

I mean, he was, they seemed to be fed up with the interview

Post **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2018 1:13 am

For better or for worse the full interviews are spoilered and in the OP, tired of these broken links. I'll transcribe some fader shit here soon. The one from way back.

I'll also get avey's solo shit in order.

Post **Posted:** Tue Jul 17, 2018 10:29 am

someone posted this in the spiritposting fb group, interview with avey about recording sung tongs, the recent sung tongs tour etc

http://do512.com/p/strange-inquiry-with ... collective

Post **Posted:** Fri Jul 20, 2018 1:30 pm

Oh shit, thanks! So we have the Panda/Deak boot because Avey doesn't like flying.

Post **Posted:** Sat Aug 04, 2018 9:56 pm

Hey all, still have a lot of editing/reformatting to do but unearthed a bunch of interviews I thought were lost to the wind. They're in the OP now and it's good shit. Apologies I dropped the ball for a long time on this thread

Post **Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2018 3:05 pm

Interview with Kyle Simon/Geologist about The Sirens
https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/technolog ... he-sirens/

Post **Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2018 8:25 pm

Chubby_Dork wrote:

Interview with Kyle Simon/Geologist about The Sirens
https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/technolog ... he-sirens/

Sweet! Thanks, I'm still working on this thread. Computer crashed during the last big edit I was doing.

Post **Posted:** Wed Aug 15, 2018 8:23 am

You mentioned the immediacy that is lost. How do you maintain that working in a digital realm?

[Ben Allen]: I don't know that I have! That immediacy is very important for Animal Collective, but we go through a lot of mixes — that's a big part of their process. That's something I'm trying to understand with this new place I'm building in Atlanta. How can I have a structural process that lets people know what type of performance is going to be expected of them? I wonder if I need a tape machine, to be perfectly honest. "We've got 24 tracks, 16 minutes and no Beat Detective — so let's do this right the first time." You can also talk with bands ahead of time about what sorts of limitations to impose, so it's not this open chasm of possibilities.

When did you start calling yourself a producer, and what changed both in your work and internally that allowed you to do that?

I don't know that I would call myself a producer yet. When people ask what I do, I just say, "Music stuff." Maybe once my income is more from producing than anything else, then I can call myself a producer. I'm right on the cusp. I've been hired to produce records for just a couple years. With Animal Collective I'm an engineer, and it's gratifying to be in the room with them and pushed to explore things that I would never do otherwise.

[...]

You're getting out of the pop realm and more into the indie stuff with Animal Collective and The Constellations. What's different about this from the pop music?

What's pop music? What does that even mean? Given the right circumstances just about anything can be a hit these days. I'm not here to make hits — there are easier ways to make money! I'm here to make great music. It's got to be about the art at some level, otherwise what's the point?

What about with the vocals? I listen to the pop stuff and every note, every phrase has to be perfect. I envision a lot of comping. How do you produce a great vocal and maintain that immediacy?

It's different every single time. For me, everything defers to the vocal. There's this song with Animal Collective we're working on now — "Sky" — where we got a very dry, up-front vocal. But getting them to that point has been about a two-year process. "Crazy" is one vocal take, except for the little "oohs." But then with Christina — that song was probably comped from a hundred different takes! She nailed every single one, but she wants to comp it until she's in love with it. There's nothing less valid about that. To argue about the validity of it is silly. It's whatever gets you to the destination. I've been in chaotic situations where I was asked to leave, but that's because I wasn't prepared. The best thing you can do is give it a hundred percent and continue to do that until the artist is satisfied. That's more important than any vocal mic.

[...]

The crunk thing is hard for me to swallow. It's very brittle to my ears, all those direct-line keyboards and plug-ins.

I never liked dance music until a friend gave me some ecstasy and took me out to a club. "Oh! I get it!" Atlanta is a car city, and Peachtree Street on Friday and Saturday night is just lined for miles with cars cruising with two 15s in the trunk, bumping the new Lil Wayne or whatever.

Are you consciously engineering stuff for those two 15s?

Animal Collective, for example, will say, "Hey, we want this to rattle the subs."

So how do you do that?

It's 808s and some sub-harmonic synthesis. On their CD, Merriweather Post Pavilion, we used Drumagog a lot. It's just a matter of finessing the trigger to get that right.

What are you using to monitor those really low frequencies?

I have a sub that I'll generally plug in for those mixes, and I have these big KV2 PA speakers that are designed to be cranked up. That's all they're there for. You go to any studio in Atlanta and you'll see Augspurger 12s in the walls, and these 12s and 15s on the floor, you know?

Do you think that stuff translates as well in reality?

It depends. I usually only turn those subs on for about ten seconds, and say, "Yeah, that sounds right," and then I'll check it a few times through a mix. But I'd say that ninety percent of the time it's just two tiny Altec speakers, which are generally behind me. My process is about switching between a lot of different monitors and listening to things in as casual a way as I can. Sometimes I'll put them on the other side of the room and listen as if I were just hanging out in my house.

Little things will jump out that you wouldn't otherwise hear...

Totally! Just listen like a human being. I try to think as little about other engineers as possible, and just think about how a casual listener is going to hear this. Put the speakers on the other side of the room, surf the net and listen to a mix twenty times.

What about the people who are going to listen through their computer speakers or their ear buds?

So then listen on ear buds or my MacBook computer speakers. I have a few pairs of these little Altecs, which I always travel with.

Why do you keep them behind you?

Just to keep it casual, like I'm not paying too much attention to it.

https://tapeop.com/interviews/76/ben-allen/