RIFF CENTRAL NOW FEATURING PICTURES OF BANDS


The New York Animal Collective featuring Avey Tare, Panda bear, Geologist, and Deacon are a folk rock band who made the album called SUng Tongs last year, filled with many songs. Later that year the Panda Bear made a solo album without the rest of hte band entitled Young Prayers, which was about his father (dead). But now the Animal Collective have recorded a a record called the Prospect Hummer EP with folk Vishnu Bunyan, a legend in her own reich. Today on Riff Central Panda Bear discusses this monumental collaboration.

RIFF CENTRAL: WERE YOU SCARED TO WORK WITH SUCH A LEGEND AS VISHNU BUNYAN

PANDAEBEAR: VERY SCARED! VASHTI'S HAD SUCH AN INFLUENCE ON OUR WORK. RECORDING WITH HER HAS EASILY BEEN THE HIGHLIGHT OF OUR CAREER

RIFF CENTRAL: EVEN MORE THAN YOUR COLLABORATION WITH DEACON

PANDA BEAR: WELL, DEACON'S

RIFF CENTRAL: IT'S OK I UNDERSTAND

PANDA BEAR: NO IT'S JUST DEACON'S

RIFF CENTRAL: FINE, JUST SAY IT

PANDA BEAR: SAY WHAT?

RIFF CENTRAL: LISTEN IT'S FINE

PANDA BEAR: I WAS JUST GONNA SAY THAT DEACON AND I DON'T NECESSARILY THINK OF OUR WORK TOGETHER AS COLLABORATIVE, BECAUSE WE'RE A BAND

RIFF CENTRAL: YOU'RE KICKING DEACON OUT OF THE ANIMAL COLLECTIVE AREN'T YOU

PANDA BEAR: OF COURSE NOT! NO! ONCE A MEMBER OF THE ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, ALWAYS A MEMBER OF THE ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

RIFF CENTRAL: SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING DEACON WOULD SAY

PANDA BEAR:

RIFF CENTRAL: WHATEVER IT'S NOT IMPORTANT, LET'S JUST KEEP GOING HERE

PANDAR BEAR: OK GOOD

RIFF CENTRAL: YOUR WORST ALBUM IS CALLED DANSE MANATEE.

PANDA BEAR: THAT IS WIDELY REGARDED AS OUR WORST ALBUM, YES

RIFF CENTRAL: IS IT TRUE THAT DEACON PLAYED ON THIS RECORD, THEREBY MAKING IT YOUR WORST RECORD

PANDA BEAR: DEACON PLAYED ON THE RECORD, BUT HONESTLY HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE RECORD BEING AS UNFOCUSED AS IT WAS.

RIFF CENTRAL: HOW ANGRY WERE YOU WHEN DEACON FUCKED UP DANSE MANATEE

PANDA BEAR: AS I SAID, IF DANSE MANATEE FAILED, IT'S NOT ANYBODY'S FAULT, JUST OURS COLLECTIVELY

RIFF CENTRAL: BUT DIDN'T YOU SAY DEACON'S PART OF THE ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

PANDA BEAR: YES

RIFF CENTRAL: SO COLLECTIVELY, WE KNOW WHO'S AT FAULT HERE

PANDA BEAR: I DIDN'T SAY THAT

RIFF CENTRAL: I'M SORRY WE ONLY HAVE TIME FOR ONE LAST QUESTION

PANDA BEAR: COOL

RIFF CENTRAL: WHEN PEOPLE THINK ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, THEY THINK OK, THIS IS EITHER PEOPLE MAKING ANIMAL SONGS, ANIMALS MAKING PEOPLE SONGS, OR IT'S SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN, LIKE TRUST FUND KIDS WITH LOTS OF TIME.

PANDA BEAR: OK

RIFF CENTRAL: MY QUESTION IS THIS: HOW DOES DEACON FIT INTO THIS: CLUMSY RETARD, OR JUST REGULAR RETARD?

download 'prospect hummer' featuring vastni bunyan

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