Guardian Music — (Domino)How many Animals does it take to form a Collective? Two, officially. This minimum quorum has ensured maximum wriggle room for such an expanding, contracting band of psychedelic brothers, originally from Baltimore. They go by aliases – Avey ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and San Francisco Chronicle review D.T. Max's new David Foster Wallace biography Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story. Pitchfork interviews the members of Animal Collective about the band's new album Centipede Hz 9out Septemb... more info

Guardian Music — The 1-2-3-4, LondonWith the problems at Bloc and cancellation of Underage, it hasn't been a golden year for festivals in east London. The 1-2-3-4, however, looks as if it may buck the trend, a one-dayer offering the suggestion that relevance is not a... more info

Consequence of Sound — "A lot of our favorite bands, our favorite records, we were steered to by Pavement." more info

Consequence of Sound — Exploring a labyrinth full of murky anxieties and alien radio signals. more info

411 Mania — From Arcade Fire and The Strokes to Animal Collective, Bloc Party, the Decemberists and more, the 411 staff ranks their top 5 indie rock bands! more info

Totally Fuzzy — Centipede Hz is jagged and assertive; it snarls and heaves, supported by electric musculature. Animal Collective's new album, Centipede Hz, comes out Sept. 4. Read more » more info

Guardian Music — The debut album from these sisters is being touted as 'cosmic disco' and 'ghost-modern glam'. What do we get? Landfill indieReading on mobile? Listen hereHometown: Brooklyn.The lineup: Taraka and Nimai Larson.The background: Prince Rama have just mad... more info

Guardian Music — (Domino)There are really two Animal Collective stories. There's the band's hopscotch artistic development – a self-confessed desire to never make the same record twice – which has led them through 15 years of campfire meditations, clattering psyc... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Animal Collective’s Deakin (Josh Dibb) takes us on a hike through the State Park surrounding his house in Maryland. Along the way, we do indeed discover a collective of animals, from frogs and deer, to snakes and ticks. And we get a surprisingly op... more info