Animal Collective/YMMV

• Ear Worm: Have fun getting "Brother Sport" out of your head.
  • Or "My Girls", or "No More Runnin", or... scratch that, everything on Merriweather Post Pavilion.
    • Don't forget "Who Could Win a Rabbit" from Sung Tongs. The HYBRIDS didn't.
    • Or "Peacebone," "Fireworks," and "Winter Wonderland," all from Strawberry Jam!
    • The second half of "What Would I Want? Sky". Good luck getting that Grateful Dead sample out of your brain.
    • This troper would like to nominate "Grass" and "The Purple Bottle", both from Feels.
    • AND I WAAAANA WAAAAALK AROUUUND WITH YOU! AND I WAAANA WAAAALK AROUUUUND WITH YOU!
• Face of the Band: They desperately try to subvert this trope, but Avey Tare and Panda Bear - as the group's singers - have basically become this, mostly because they're the only two who have been on every album so far.
• Hype Aversion: As can be expected with every artist Pitchfork loves.
• Nightmare Fuel: Any live material from the Danse Manatee period, as heard on Hollindagain and Animal Crack Box, is either very harsh or very confusing. Or both.
  • The album cover ^{[dead link]} of Sung Tongs.
  • The unspeakable horror that is "Whaddit I Done"
• Ruined FOREVER: At least more than one fan's response to the video for "My Girls" getting airplay on MTV (not MTVU or the MTV2 indie program Subterranean, but regular MTV).
  • That's a full-blown Crowning Moment of Awesome in this fan's opinion. Especially considering how often videos are played on MTV these days.
• Squick: Some of their lyrics can fall into this, albeit in a good-natured way.
  • FLESH CANOE.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks
• True Art Is Incomprehensible: Danse Manatee and Hollindagain especially, but to some degree all of their music is like this. Of course, as someone said on the main page for that trope, it's more like "True Fun Is Incomprehensible" in their case...
• Uncanny Valley: The most of the vocal treatments on Danse Manatee and Here Comes the Indian.