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Panda Bear - 100% match to Animal Collective

Noah Lennox, Maryland, USA. One of the musicians in the New York-based experimental band Animal Collective, multi-instrumentalist Lennox has also released several solo albums under his Panda Bear moniker. His 1998 debut was completed with future Animal Collective bandmate Deakin (the two men had been making music together since meeting at high school in Baltimore County), an Read more

Black Dice - 30% match to Animal Collective

Formed during 1997 and originally coming from Providence, Rhode Island (before relocating to Brooklyn, New York a year later), this provocative US outfit is regularly compared to Japanese noise rockers Melt Banana and the Boredoms. Black Dice made their debut in 1998 with the 7-inch, ‘Semen Of The Sun’. The band’s early incarnation included Bjorn Copeland (guitar Read more

Deerhunter - 25% match to Animal Collective

Formed in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2001 by Bradford Cox (1982, Athens, Georgia, USA; vocals) and Moses Archuleta (keyboards), the early line-up of this US art punk band also featured Justin Bosworth (b. 1980, d. 2004; bass) and Dan Walton (drums). Guitarist Colin Mee quickly replaced the latter, and with Archuleta doubling on drums the quartet recorded a split 7-inch vinyl singl Read more

Atlas Sound - 23% match to Animal Collective

Eric Copeland - 22% match to Animal Collective

Neutral Milk Hotel - 17% match to Animal Collective

The creation of singer-songwriter Jeff Mangum, Neutral Milk Hotel formed part of the loose knit Elephant 6 Recording Company collective of psych pop bands based in Athens, Georgia, USA. Mangum grew up in Ruston, Louisiana with fellow 60s enthusiasts Will Cullen Hart, Bill Doss and Robert Schneider, playing in various bands including Maggot and Cranberry Life Cycle. In 1990, Man Read more

Dan Deacon - 14% match to Animal Collective

28 August 1981, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Deacon grew up in Baltimore, with a great passion and talent for music. As soon as he graduated in the mid-90s he enrolled at the world-renowned Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, New York, where he played in many experimental bands. His love of the avant garde pushed him to work with musicians playing everything from grindco Read more

Beach House - 13% match to Animal Collective

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - 12% match to Animal Collective

Black Moth Super Rainbow - 12% match to Animal Collective

Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this US psychedelic pop band was formed in 1996 by high school student Tobacco (Tom Fec). The line-up went through a number of changes before cohering around a cast of curiously named characters, namely the Seven Fields Of Aphelion (b. Maureen Boyle), Father Hummingburd (b. Seth Ciotti), Power Pill Fist (b. Ken Fec), and IFfernaut (b. Donna Read more

No Age - 12% match to Animal Collective

Formed in 2005 from the ashes of the short-lived US noise rockers Wives, this Los Angeles, California-based duo comprises Randy Randall (guitar) and Dean Allen Spunt (drums/vocals). In March, they took the unusual (in a digital age) step of releasing five limited edition vinyl-only EPs on five different labels. Although there were traces of the punky thrash of Wives in tracks s Read more

The Flaming Lips - 12% match to Animal Collective

Formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, the Flaming Lips won a deserved reputation in the 80s and 90s for their discordant, psychedelia-tinged garage rock, and have recorded a fine body of off-kilter and unpredictable work. They are led by lyricist, vocalist and guitarist Wayne Coyne (Wayne Ruby Coyne, 17 March 1965, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA), who started playing music Read more

Akron / Family - 11% match to Animal Collective

Although tangentially associated with the US ‘freak folk’ movement, the Brooklyn, New York City-based Akron/Family combines acoustic-orientated ballads, psychedelic freakouts, post rock jams, and free-form storms of sound to create something akin to a twenty-first century Grateful Dead. (Their communal peace/love vibe and hirsute qualities do not hurt in this respect Read more

Gang Gang Dance - 11% match to Animal Collective

Cobbled from the ashes of several defunct Brooklyn-based outfits, Gang Gang Dance is a loose confederation of artists and musicians who explore a kind of modern-day tribalism through percussion-heavy, electronics-aided avant rock. Liz Bougatsos’s variously chanted and sung vocals evoke Middle Eastern sonorities as well as modern rockers like Kate Bush. The group’s liv Read more

Of Montreal - 11% match to Animal Collective

Although Of Montreal originate from Athens, Georgia, USA, the band’s sound is unmistakably rooted in the mid-60s psychedelic era of UK pop, with obvious nods to the Beatles and the Kinks. Formed in the mid-90s, Of Montreal have often been compared to other similarly styled psych pop acts that emerged around the same time, including Apples In Stereo, Olivia Tremor Control, Read more