KCRW's Eric J. Lawrence Interviews Animal Collective 

Ahhh, geologist. My favorite rap artist.

That hat either cost $2 or $568

I still can't get over how incredibly soft spoken they all are.

Avey killing the hat game yet again

“We had been talking a lot about dinosaurs…” exactly how id imagine they’d be

2:06 Noah - "guys can yall just stop being contrarians and give a fucking straight answer lol"

People mostly complain about the interviewer unless they do well... in which case they don't say anything. So I'll say it, damn good interview sir.

panda bear is cute

“Anywhere in the UK - we’ve always had trouble there”. Lennox’s music is too positive and sincere for UK taste.

Oh I wanna meet them so badly!

I'm flattered to own the same Vans as Noah.

Lol when Chicago is mentioned Dave starts to do the "ooo" from If You Leave Me Now. Friggin Chicago

12:52 _'UwU'_ - Avey Tare

noah’s “hey” though

geologist lookin like 2008 ethan kath with that beard

3:15 geologist looks at avey for some help on an answer and aveys response was to shrug and go “i don’t fuckin know, that’s on you.”

Panda Bear rockin the RATKING hoodie

i wanna have that interviewer just sitting on my living room, just sitting

Geologist always wears iconic shirts.

lol I want to hear that Neil Young / Geo collaboration

Panda always looks so pissed off during interviews

Avery looks rlly healthy in this

Avey's little squeak after "Chicago's going in this year!" ... "Chicago?"

I love a good Avey Tare interview

Awesome interview.

2016 was six years ago???

psychedelic pop is the best way to put it.

all their best shows are in France for some reason...

does every interviewer have to ask "how do you know what will be an animal collective song or a solo song"...theyve been asked a million times . good interview tho

Animal Collective X Neil Young.

Al Jardine, lol...

*alright. i figured it out.* *so in my life i have had a phenomenon. since i was born. i'm 45 now. old lady. anyway, from literally the moment i was born and periodically throughout my life i have endured a spiritual phenomenon called "my three wise men". so basically, at crucial or important times in my life three men appear.* *and this has happened numerous times throughout my life. so much so that i am very familiar with them because they have the same exact disposition every time. check it out: one of them is very happy to see me, one of them is very upset and stern and stoic and serious, and one of them speaks to me.* *while looking at the man in the middle, and he's most concerning to me, i keep gazing over at the one wearing the hat. i saw it, i said aha! these are another manifestation of my three wise men. so the one in the hat is very familiar looking to me. like as if i know him from some place in time. i don't think i've ever seen him before in any regard (videos, pictures, nothing like that). it's a SPIRITUAL thing.* *so my three wise men are always a group of men, never the same people, who simply represent something. when i was born, there were three male doctors in the delivery room and as it was told to me, true to form one of them was overjoyed (so funny). i was born on a holy day, by the way. 4th joyful mystery of the holy rosary. and, ah, did i read correctly that one of these men went to college in boston because he was interested in the concept of god?* *i was born in boston. by the mystic river, near the power plant. you know what that makes me, right? a powerful mystic (har har har).* *so, should these men happen upon my comments the only thing i have to say to you guys is... well, a couple of things. three things. 1) safer is a very, very important song in my jukebox mind and in my heart. 2) pumpkin gets a snake bite is HILARIOUS 3) don't believe the pilot is HILARIOUS.* *you're an interesting band. i like your stuff.* *oh, one more thing: angels, some of them, are musicians (and musicians, some of them, are angels). look it up.*

Ah good country, love that one. Definitely a band with sounds that grow on you, certainly an artistic outlet that is well worth having to bail us out when things get bent out of shape. A lot like Radiohead, just great artists dedicated to creating different sounds. Priceless in a world where everything mainstream is basically broken.

Does anyone else get the impression that they don't really agree with each other's answers?

interviewer is really cute!!

12:51 lol

The interviewer kind of sounds like Robert Downey Jr.

😃

SETH SPEAKS

Geologist+Neil Young b awesome

...i like chicago

I keep forgetting that Avey Tare and Panda Bear aren’t brothers

Geologist comes off a bit like a Iknoweverythingologist. Whatever...three sweet souls.

Panda speak ffs