Search Results for:

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

Animal Collective

Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished - 2023 Reissue

    Chiming laments for a childhood's end, Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished opens with the phrase "want to hear a secret, I know one," suggesting these secrets just might be buried deep within the flocks of high frequencies, electronic glitches, bleeps and swells that follow. The duo's approach is similar to Love's (circa Forever Changes), with Avey Tare's picked acoustic guitar flowing in perfect syncopation with Panda Bear's tumbling drum kit. But the layers of tonal and atonal electronics that fatten the thinner pulse of the songwriter's vision make this album resemble something closer to modern electronic composition. The songs range from speedy patchwork pieces to slower piano melodies, a somehow coherent yet very fragile brand of psychedelic music - their grasp of pop hooks and dynamics being counterbalanced by a love of noise / friction and musical anarchy; their songs wavering on the tightrope between deeply affecting beauty and unrestrained chaos. Whilst the band have gone on to rightfully become one of the most name-dropped and influential groups of the past two decades, this debut effort reminds us of where they came from and remains a truly stunning and unique album.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Spirit They've Vanished (Remastered 2023)
    2. April And The Phantom (Remastered 2023)
    3. Untitled (Remastered 2023)
    4. Penny Dreadfuls (Remastered 2023)
    5. Chocolate Girl (Remastered 2023)
    6. Everyone Whistling (Remastered 2023)
    7. La Rapet (Remastered 2023)
    8. Bat You'll Fly (Remastered 2023)
    9. Someday I'll Grow To Be As Tall As The Giant (Remastered 2023)
    10. Alvin Row (Remastered 2023)

    Animal Collective

    Time Skiffs

      Time Skiffs’ nine songs are love letters, distress signals, en plein air observations, and relaxation hymns, the collected transmissions of four people who have grown into relationships and parenthood and adult worry. But they are rendered with Animal Collective’s singular sense of exploratory wonder. Harmonies so rich you want to skydive through their shared air, textures so fascinating you want to decode their sorcery, rhythms so intricate you want to untangle their sources. Here is Animal Collective nearing 20, still in search of what’s next.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Dragon Slayer
      2. Car Keys
      3. Prester John
      4. Strung With Everything
      5. Walker
      6. Cherokee
      7. Passer-by
      8. We Go Back
      9. Royal And Desire

      Animal Collective

      Feels - 2021 Reissue

        ‘Feels’ is Animal Collective’s sixth studio album, originally released in 2008. The album features all four band members - Avey Tare, Deakin, Geologist and Panda Bear.

        TRACK LISTING

        Did You See The Words
        Grass
        Flesh Canoe
        The Purple Bottle
        Bees
        Banshee Beat
        Daffy Duck
        Loch Raven
        Turn Into Something

        Animal Collective

        Sung Tongs - 2021 Reissue

          ‘Sung Tongs’ is the band's fifth studio album. Originally released in 2005, the album features Avey Tare and Panda Bear.

          TRACK LISTING

          Leaf House
          Who Could Win A Rabbit
          The Softest Voice
          Winters Love
          Kids On Holiday
          Sweet Road
          Visiting Friends
          College
          We Tigers
          Mouth Wooed Her
          Good Lovin Outside
          Whaddit I Done

          Animal Collective

          Crestone

            Set in the desert of Crestone, Colorado over the course of eight days and set to an original score composed by Animal Collective's Geologist & Deakin. Crestone follows a group of SoundCloud rappers who live in solitude, growing weed and making music for the internet. When an old friend arrives to make a movie, reality and fiction begin to blur.

            STAFF COMMENTS

            Barry says: It's a bit of a different vibe for Animal Collective this time round, with their notoriously clangy arty-indie replaced with brittle atmospherics and suitable filmic drones. It's a big step, but a perfectly fitting soundtrack and a testament to the continued skill of this Maryland crew.

            Animal Collective

            Bridge To Quiet

              Animal Collective present the physical release for ‘Bridge To Quiet’, out on Domino.

              The band took some of their unreleased improvisations, remixed them, collaged them and built them into fully formed songs, finding their way to ‘Bridge To Quiet’.

              Animal Collective consists of musicians Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deakin (Josh Dibb) and Geologist (Brian Weitz), who play in various configurations on each album. Their expansive catalogue spans the entirety of the 2000s, including ‘Strawberry Jam’, ‘Feels’ and ‘Sung Tongs’. With the release of ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion’, named after the Baltimore venue, they established themselves as one of the most acclaimed acts of the 21st Century.

              STAFF COMMENTS

              Barry says: Bridge To Quiet shows the Animal Collective in a more expansive, avant-ambient mood, with these stunning shadowy vocals and electronic artifacts mixed with glitched synths and off-kilter snappy percussion.

              TRACK LISTING

              Rain In Cups
              Piggy Knows
              Sux-Bier Passage
              Bridge To Quiet

              Tangerine Reef is a full-length audio-visual album by Animal Collective (Avey Tare, Deakin and Geologist), in collaboration with Coral Morphologic, to commemorate the 2018 International Year of the Reef. Tangerine Reef is a visual tone poem consisting of time-lapse and slow pans across surreal aqua-scapes of naturally fluorescent coral and cameos by alien-like reef creatures (note: no CGI or artificial enhancement was used in this film). Tangerine Reef is the sight and sound of a literal underwater collective of animals.

              STAFF COMMENTS

              Barry says: Another brilliantly off-piste outing from Animal Collective. Scattered percussion, haunting shadowy vocals and that effervescent duality of low-fi production values and hi-fi songwriting make this yet another stormer from the AC camp.

              TRACK LISTING

              1. Hair Cutter
              2. Buffalo Tomato
              3. Inspector Gadget
              4. Buxom
              5. Coral Understanding
              6. Airpipe (To A New Transition)
              7. Jake And Me
              8. Coral By Numbers
              9. Hip Sponge
              10. Coral Realization
              11. Lundsten Coral
              12. Palythoa
              13. Best Of Times (Worst Of All)

              Animal Collective

              Sung Tongs

                Animal Collective’s 2004 critical breakthrough, Sung Tongs, is being re-released on the band’s own label, My Animal Home. Sung Tongs generated critical acclaim upon its release and was featured in year-end best-of lists of the decade. They continue their pursuit of a new psychedelia. Their wild path has taken them from cramped concrete basement shows and forest floor singalongs to immersive installations at the Guggenheim and performances to millions on national television.

                Animal Collective

                Painting With

                For fifteen years Animal Collective has been rewriting the musical map, their line-up and aesthetic shifting with each astonishing release as they continue their pursuit of a new psychedelia. Their wild path has taken them from cramped concrete basement shows and forest floor singalongs to immersive installations at the Guggenheim and performances to millions on national television. So where to from here?

                Dizzyingly upbeat and gloriously realized, their new LP bounces and pops with an urgent, ecstatic energy, propelled by polyrhythmic beats and gurgling modular synth, with Noah Lennox and Dave Portner’s vocals gleefully falling in and out of syncopation and off-kilter harmony.

                Working as a trio, Portner (Avey Tare), Lennox (Panda Bear) and Brian Weitz (Geologist) began trading demos in early 2015, pursuing a goal of what Portner calls “really short songs: no B.S, get in, get out material…” The three met up in Asheville during that Spring and began exploring the songs together. Recording took place in the legendary EastWest Studios in Hollywood, home to sessions by The Beach Boys and Marvin Gaye. The album features contributions from John Cale and Colin Stetson, and was engineered by Sonny DiPerri.

                The result: Painting With. Warm and personal, kaleidoscopic and high definition, concerned with art (cubism, Dadaism, and the distorted way those artists viewed the world) and the human experience, and the meeting of both - creating something elemental, joyous, and unmistakably Animal Collective.


                STAFF COMMENTS

                Barry says: From the very first moment, 'Painting With' grabs your attention through a mix of exuberant lyricism and vocal delivery, underpinned by frenetic psychedelic instrumentation. Part surf-psych, part art-pop, this is undoubtedly an Animal Collective record, and quite possibly the best one yet.

                TRACK LISTING

                01. FloriDada
                02. Hocus Pocus
                03. Vertical
                04. Lying In The Grass
                05. The Burglars
                06. Natural Selection
                07. Bagels In Kiev
                08. On Delay
                09. Spilling Guts
                10. Summing The Wretch
                11. Golden Gal
                12. Recycling


                Latest Pre-Sales

                229 NEW ITEMS

                E-newsletter —
                Sign up
                Back to top