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Animal Collective and Ariel Pink: Faun fables

Simon Reynolds, The Wire, July 2005

Drawing on psychedelia's childlike bliss and Techno's electronic transmutations, Animal Collective have developed a uniquely woozy soundworld, winning over audiences with their shamanistic live presence. We track these Mother Nature's sons to their sylvan lair, and talk to the latest addition to the Collective's Paw Tracks label, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti

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