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Campfire Songs are an offshoot of the Animal Collective, as the three members comprise three-fourths of the Animal Collective. Their 2003 self-titled debut was, in contrast to prior electronically inclined Animal Collective releases, centered around acoustic guitars and recorded mostly on a screened-in porch in rural Maryland. Consisting of five lengthy pieces, it tread the line between acoustic folk-psych-rock and experimental music, with insistent strum-droning guitars, ethereal voices, and overlaid outdoor and animal sounds. The result sounded as if it was capturing an informal yet experimental jam session or get together with kernels of songs that had yet to be completed. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
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Campfire Songs
Studio album by Campfire Songs
Released March 2003
Recorded November 2001
Genre Freak folk
Length 42:11
Label Catsup Plate
Paw Tracks
Professional reviews
Animal Collective chronology
Hollinndagain
(2002)		 Campfire Songs
(2003)		 Here Comes the Indian
(2003)

Campfire Songs is the third album by Baltimore based band Animal Collective, here operating under an eponymous alias.[1] It was released in March 2003.

Contents

Recording

The album comprises five individual songs played back to back and recorded in one take. Although it was the middle of November and thus very cold, the recording was made outside on a screen porch in Maryland, using three Sony MiniDisc players with Sony ECM-MS907 microphones placed strategically around the band. Ambient sound from the surrounding area was also captured and added later. The album was mixed at Avey Tare's apartment in Bushwick and later mastered with Nicolas Vernhes at Rare Book Room.

About the recording and the idea for this record, Panda Bear said in 2005:

“ We had had the idea of doing something really warm and inviting-sounding for a while, like three or four years at least. We wanted it to sound like a campfire feels and I think that also made us think of campfire songs that you can sing with a bunch of people and everybody gets connected and feels good and safe. It really wasn’t spontaneous or improvised [...]. We worked for a month or so to get it just right like the transitions between songs. I still think Queen Of My Pictures into Doggy is one of the best things we’ve done together. I was really excited about my singing on Campfire Songs, I guess because I felt like I was doing things that were difficult for me to do.[1] ”

The three members of Animal Collective performing on this album are Avey Tare, Panda Bear, and Deakin, who makes his debut appearance here. Although member Geologist does not perform on the album, he was present for the recording to operate the MiniDisc players.[2] At this point in time, despite the presence of all four original members, there was still no Animal Collective proper; the name Campfire Songs was intended to be the name of the band performing the album, as well as the name of the album itself.[3] However, the band name 'Animal Collective' is used in the booklet from the latest copies of the album.

About one week before recording, they played the whole album live at Tonic in New York City, sitting in the middle of the floor while the audience surrounded them.[1]

Campfire Songs is one of only two Animal Collective-related releases (the other being 2007's Strawberry Jam) to include a booklet with full lyrics.

The original Catsup Plate version of this album is out of print as of 2008, but it will be reissued by Paw Tracks Records on January 26, 2010 [4] This is the only album to feature the line-up of Avey, Panda and Deakin.

Track listing

  1. "Queen in My Pictures" – 9:58
  2. "Doggy" – 4:39
  3. "Two Corvettes" – 4:58
  4. "Moo Rah Rah Rain" – 11:01
  5. "De Soto de Son" – 11:35

Personnel

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Animal Collective
Avey Tare · Panda Bear · Deakin · Geologist
Vashti · Doctess · Eyvind
Studio albums
Live albums
EPs
Singles
Associated acts
Terrestrial Tones · Jane · Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan · Panda Bear
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Panda Bear · Paradise · COcOnuts · Young Prayer · Blasted · Oboroed / Circus Lives · Berserker · Dead Drunk · Person Pitch · Pullhair Rubeye
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Singles
See also

References

  1. ^ a b Interview, The Milk Factory, April 2005


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