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Animal Collective

One of the most innovative and experimental acts of the 2000s, Animal Collective sample acoustic instruments, droning loops and delicate harmonies to make their own uniquely textured, psychedelic soundscapes. Childhood friends from Baltimore, the lads drew inspiration from Pink Floyd and the Grateful Dead and started making their own avant-garde recordings for each other while still at school. On their summer holidays home from university they'd reunite to record together, eventually piecing together debut album Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished (2000); released initia...