Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who is one of the founding members of the psychedelic rock group Animal Collective. He has also recorded with such side groups as the Terrestrial Tones and Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks. He met his Animal Collective co-founders -- Noah Lennox ("Panda Bear"), Josh Dibb ("Deakin"), and Brian Weitz ("Geologist") -- while they were all attending high school in Baltimore, Maryland. His group released its first album, Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished, in 2000.
