All these decades into their existence, Animal Collective are still spinning off new side projects. A couple of months ago, longtime bandmates Avey Tare and Geologist (or, if you prefer, Dave Portner and Brian Weitz) announced that they’d started an instrumental duo called Croz Boyce and announced their self-titled debut, which comes out later this…

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"My Girls" has always _felt_ like Animal Collective's biggest hit. Critics loved it; it was Pitchfork's pick for the #1 song of 2009 and finished at #3 on that year's Pazz & Jop critics poll, among other accolades. It was the most accessible song on AnCo's most accessible album, _Merriweather Post Pavilion_. I even got away with playing it at house parties in my twenties, at the peak of Kanye,…