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Left to right: Deakin (bottom), Avey Tare (top), Geologist, Panda Bear

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Animal Collective is an experimental rock band founded in Baltimore in 2000. Its lineup consists of Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deakin (Josh Dibb) and Geologist (Brian Weitz), who have known each other since childhood and began to experiment with mind-altering drugs and psychedelic music in high school.

Because of the band's stance as a "collective", not every member of the band appears on every album (for example, Deakin is absent on Merriweather Post Pavilion and Painting With, Geologist doesn't appear on Campfire Songs and only Avey Tare and Panda Bear perform on Sung Tongs). Panda Bear has released six solo albums since 1998, and Avey Tare has two of his own. Deakin has toured with solo material of his, and released a solo album of his own in 2016.

Their music has kept psychedelic influences, but their hit album Merriweather Post Pavilion has made it more accessible to a mainstream audience without changing much of their overall sound.

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Discography:

Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished (2000), as Avey Tare and Panda Bear

Danse Manatee (2001), as Avey Tare, Panda Bear and Geologist

Hollinndagain (2002), as Avey Tare, Panda Bear and Geologist (live album)

Campfire Songs (2003), as Campfire Songs

Ark note Initially released as Here Comes the Indian, but renamed under its' original working title in 2020 in light of many race-related protests. (2003)

(2003) Sung Tongs (2004)

Prospect Hummer (2004) EP

Feels (2005)

People (2006) EP

Strawberry Jam (2007)

Water Curses (2008) EP

Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

Animal Crack Box (2009) (live album)

Fall Be Kind (2009) EP

ODDSAC (2010) (A 55-minute "visual album")

Centipede Hz (2012)

Painting With (2016)

The Painters (2017) EP

Meeting of the Waters (2017) EP

Tangerine Reef (2018)

Bridge To Quiet (2020) EP

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