Avery Tare and Panda Bear Spirit LP - Animal Collective

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Near Mint / Sealed copy of Avey Tare' and Panda Bear's (aka Animal Collective) debut LP - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished. Reissued and pressed on vinyl for the first time by Fat Cat Records. 
The first album by Baltimore based band Animal Collective, released in August 2000 under the name Avey Tare and Panda Bear. The album was released as a CD on the band's own Animal label (now known as Paw Tracks); only a very limited amount of copies were made. It has since been re-released as a double CD along with Danse Manatee in 2003 on FatCat Records. Now available on limited edition vinyl for the first time through FatCat Records. Both UK and US pressings used DMM on 180gm vinyl
All of the songs were written by Avey Tare (David Portner) from 1997 to 1999, except for "Penny Dreadfuls" which was written when he was 16 years old. Portner and Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) recorded the acoustic guitar and the drums live onto a Tascam 48 1/2 inch eight-track reel-to-reel in Portner's bedroom in Maryland during the summer of 1999. The piano songs along with overdubs were recorded in Portner's parents' living room. Portner wanted the guitar to be "jangled to create this fluttering feeling" An old Roland SH-2 synthesizer, which Brian Weitz' brother found stored in a camp, was used for the bass sounds. The drums were played with brushes to emulate the albums Ocean Rain and Forever Changes. Avey Tare would dictate what he wanted the rhythm to be through beatboxing. Other sounds, such as the majority of "Spirit They've Vanished", were created through the use of feedback loops.
Later Animal Collective fellow Deakin (Josh Dibb) helped with the promotion and sent packages to record companies. Portner remembers in an Interview: "Southern Records called us back immediately and said ‘Is there something wrong with this? This music makes our dogs run out of the room’!
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