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- Date Released: October 16, 2003
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Label: Fat Cat Records / IODA
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The album that started it all. Originally credited to its two songwriting principles, Avey Tare and Panda Bear (though Tare wrote all the songs and Bear is relegated to the drums), Spirit They've Gone, Spirit They've Vanished, is shockingly assured and mature, childlike and wide-eyed, dense and multi-layered. The songwriting is expansive and surrealistic, earning apt comparisons to everyone from Pink Floyd to Incredible String Band. Winsome, tricky, yet also nightmarish and on-edge, tucked inside of songs like "Chocolate Girl," "April and the Phantom," and "Penny Dreadfuls" are the sonic seeds of the group's future efforts. The keening vocal melodies and hypnotic rhythms that inform all subsequent dialogues between Tare and Bear are here, in a remarkably fresh-faced form that they never quite managed elsewhere in their long discography.
Follow-up Danse Manatee, made with Brian "The Geologist" Wertz, is a more rhythmic and improvised affair, for better or for worse. Accused upon release of being childish and obtuse, it's easy now to see how the band was working on honing its ritualistic, drum-based foundation, shelving the explicit songcraft of Spirit. Whether it's brief but resplendent shards like "Essplode" or the more expansive and body-dissolving epics like "Ahhh, Good Country" (which continue to be echoed in everything from Sung Tongs' "Visiting Friends" to Strawberry Jam's "For Rev. Green") Danse Manatee provides a prickly but crucial piece of the Animal Collective puzzle.
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| 01. |  |
Spirit They've Vanished |
5:35 |
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| 02. | |
April And The Phantom |
5:53 |
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| 03. | |
Untitled |
2:58 |
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| 04. | |
Penny Dreadfuls |
7:59 |
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| 05. | |
Chocolate Girl |
8:28 |
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| 06. | |
Everyone Whistling |
1:00 |
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| 07. | |
La Rapet |
7:52 |
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| 08. | |
Bat You'll Fly |
5:03 |
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| 09. | |
Someday I'll Grow To Be As Tall As The Giant |
3:10 |
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| 10. | |
Alvin Row |
12:39 |
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10 Total Tracks, 60:37 Total Length
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| 01. | |
A Manatee Dance |
1:02 |
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| 02. | |
Penguin Penguin |
2:15 |
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| 03. | |
Another White Singe (Little White Glove) |
1:58 |
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Essplode |
3:23 |
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| 05. | |
Meet The Light Child |
8:44 |
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| 06. | |
Runnin The Round Ball |
2:07 |
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| 07. | |
Bad Crumbs |
1:43 |
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| 08. | |
The Living Toys |
7:48 |
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| 09. | |
Throwin The Round Ball |
1:35 |
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| 10. | |
Ahhh Good Country |
8:18 |
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| 11. | |
Lablakely Dress |
2:38 |
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| 12. | |
In The Singing Box |
5:36 |
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12 Total Tracks, 47:07 Total Length
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