 | Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished/Danse Manitee by Avey Tare & Panda Bear
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $9.59 Early AC, just Avey and Panda. Very unconventional stuff, their most openly experimental work. But definately worth hearing.
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 | Here Comes the Indian by Animal Collective
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $7.42 Noisy ambient. A favorite for many AC fans, but not too accessible.
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 | Sung Tongs by Animal Collective
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $8.00 My personal favorite. Just Avey Tare and Panda Bear this time, making it a much more acoustic and warmer album.
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 | Prospect Hummer by Animal Collective
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $5.84 Four song collaboration with folk singer Vashti Bunyan. Maybe not essential to casual fans, but a nice disc to own.
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 | Hollinndagain by Animal Collective
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $9.48 Once was a super-rare live recording. Now anyone can have it. If you never get to see them live, atleast listen to this.
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 | Feels by Animal Collective
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $6.98 Geologist and Deacon come back, and the four make a fantastic pop album. Still sonic emperimenters, but their music is much more easily enjoyable.
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 | Strawberry Jam by Animal Collective
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.83 Will probably end up being their most underrated album. It contains Avey Tare's best work as a song writer and vocalist.
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 | Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $10.40 Released to incredible acclaim. It's hard (and kind of pointless) to say if this is their best record, but it's almost flawless and a joy to hear.
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 | Young Prayer by Panda Bear
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $6.79 The underrated solo debut of Panda Bear. An honest, heartbreaking album.
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 | Person Pitch by Panda Bear
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $5.89 Even Panda Bear fans were surprised by how insanely awesome Person Pitch was. Brought him in to the well-deserved spotlight.
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 | Pullhair Rubeye
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $2.99 It's hard to say whether or not you should hear this. Avey, with his wife, made a good album, then decided to play it backwards. So you're just hearing a noisey mess.
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 | Berserker by Jane
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $2.99 Music Panda made with his dj friend Scott Mou. Lots of cool beats and drones.
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 | Dead Drunk by Terrestrial Tones
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $7.48 Third collaboration between Avey Tare and Eric Copeland (of the Black Dice). Not always a good album, but it has its great moments.
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 | Beaches and Canyons by Black Dice
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $10.98 Black Dice, friends of the AC (they would eventually sign on to AC label Paw Tracks). One of the best and most interesting noise bands out there.
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 | Creature Comforts by Black Dice
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $2.69 Polarizing album. Some think it's their best, some think it's just machine noises.
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 | Broken Ear Record by Black Dice
Buy used from: $0.73 They make music from the future, though they don't try to play up that image with their covers.
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 | Load Blown by Black Dice
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $6.99 Most accessible BD release. Straight forward songs that actually sound like what most people would call music.
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 | Hermaphrodite by Eric Copeland
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $2.60 Solo debut for Copeland. More focussed than a Black Dice, in my opinion (for better or worse). Solid.
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 | Throne by Excepter
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $2.45 Another band closely associated with AC and would follow BD to Paw Tracks. Excepter is a constant internal battle between straight up noise and pop music.
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 | Alternation by Excepter
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $1.99 Closer to normal song structures, but you still won't ever see them on the cover of Spin.
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 | Debt Dept. by Excepter
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $5.92 Debut full-lenght on Paw Tracks. Still wacked out, but in the best way possible.
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 | Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK by Múm
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $8.99 Lead singer (Kristin Valtysdottir) married Avery Tare and lent her voice to Pullhair Rubeye under the name Kria Brekken. This is a fantastic album, mostly electro.
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 | Invoke by Arto Lindsay
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $1.85 The AC got some very possitive attention by appearing on this album ("In the City That Reads"). Lindsay, of course, is known for his work with DNA. Thanks Wikipedia.
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 | Rounds by Four Tet
Buy used from: $6.98 AC, in their earlier days, opened for Four Tet, and made a very positive impression on the indie comunity and future home label Domino.
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 | Cryptograms by Deerhunter
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $7.84 AC and Deerhunter, especially frontman Bradford Cox, have been strong supporters of each other.
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 | Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel by Atlas Sound
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $22.49 Cox's very good solo album. He's an open admirer of Animal Collective, and was furious when songs from PMP leaked.
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 | I Am a Bird Now by Antony and the Johnsons
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.98 Antony Hegarty, another super proliffic friend of AC. This is his classic.
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 | Fabulous Muscles by Xiu Xiu
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $3.10 Animal Collective and Xiu Xiu started doing their best work around the same time, and you can kind of see where they influenced each other.
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 | Tickley Feather by Tickley Feather
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $2.88 Very promising talent on Paw Tracks.
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 | God's Money by Gang Gang Dance
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $7.46 I'm not sure how close they actually are, but AC and GGD are always interested in each other's work.
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 | Saint Dymphna by Gang Gang Dance
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $10.49 The sampling and electronics work these guys do reminds me of the sampling and electronics styles of Panda and Geologist.
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