Podcast: The Phoenix interviews Animal Collective's Avey Tare

Since paper doesn't grow on trees and all, every little thing that we ever write in the fishwrap ends up being shorter than we want it to be. Take, for instance, Will Spitz's interview with Animal Collective's Avey Tare. There just wasn't space to include dude's musings about lazy-assed critics who lump AC in with freak-folk, or for a graf on how he spent his childhood listening to Cats and Wings. Which is why through the miracle of digital voice recorders, RCA phone jacks, ProTools, and iTunes, we're able to offer you . . . one 26 minute mpeg-layer-three audio recording of Spitz jawing with Animal Collective. (Which, of course, was too big to load up onto our servers as a single file. So, for the first time in months, we're going USendIt.) Think of this as a refresher course so you'll have shit to talk about when you're hanging out backstage tonight at Avalon.

DOWNLOAD: Will Spitz interviews Animal Collective's Avey Tare (mp3, 18 mb)

or, if you like smaller file sizes (and for anyone who Googles their way in a week from now):

DOWNLOAD: Will Spitz interviews Animal Collective's Avey Tare, Part 1 (mp3)
DOWNLOAD: Will Spitz interviews Animal Collective's Avey Tare, Part 2 (mp3)
DOWNLOAD: Will Spitz interviews Animal Collective's Avey Tare, Part 3 (mp3)
DOWNLOAD: Will Spitz interviews Animal Collective's Avey Tare, Part 4 (mp3)
DOWNLOAD: Will Spitz interviews Animal Collective's Avey Tare, Part 5 (mp3)