Here Comes the Indian

Occupation

  • Vocals, guitar: Avey Tare
  • Vocals, Electric: Panda Bear
  • Background vocals: Deakin
  • Electric: Geologist

Here Comes The Indian is the fourth album by the experimental band Animal Collective from Baltimore. It was released on 17 June 2003 on Paw Tracks. It was the first album, which was the correct band name " Animal Collective ". With this album the band preferring to title the album after the respective members who participated.

Here Comes the Indian is also the first album where all four members of the band playing together, although Geologist already took care on her previous album Campfire Songs about the recordings.

Genesis

The album was recorded in three days. Avey Tare played his guitar through an Ibanez delay pedal and a BOSS pitch shifter to generate a doubled, fuller sound, since he was the only one at the time, which played guitar. The group also made use of vocoder and synthesizer to litigate their sound and manipulate. Avey and Panda Bear took later in Aveys house singing on MiniDisc recorder on and inserted it into piano loops that Avey had produced. The mixing of the album took about three to four days.

Before the shooting, the members had a difficult phase. After trouble on the tour and in the band decided that member Brian Weitz, so Geologist for a year to leave the band to go to school in Arizona. According to him, the album was the "absolute heart of this darkness ": "That's why the album sounds so hectic and chaotic time trying to get this whole strange bustle and energy in the recordings. . "

Reception

The album received on Pitchfork Media on 18 June 2003 a positive rating of 8.6 / 10. In the allmusic album received 4/ 5 stars and wrote the critic Mark Pytlik:

" It feels crazy, drug- induced and shadowy. Here Comes the Indian is suitable for particularly lucid listening. Brash, crass and textually superb: it pays to discover this album! "

Title list

Early version of the album

An early mix of the album could not be bought commercially, but can be found online. The bulk of the song was not included in the early version. The guitar was more present and the song list was different. The songs had different names and different transitions to other songs.

Title list

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Panda Bear Avey Tare • • • Deakin Geologist

Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished (2000) • Danse Manatee (2001) • Campfire Songs (2003) • Here Comes the Indian ( 2003) • Sung Tongs ( 2004) • Feels (2005) • Strawberry Jam (2007 ) • Merriweather post Pavilion ( 2009) • Centipede Hz ( 2012)

Prospect Hummer (2005) • People ( 2006) • Water Curses (2008) • Fall Be Kind (2009)

Hollinndagain (2002) • Animal Crack Box ( 2009)

  • Animal Collective album
  • 2003 album
  • Album ( Alternative Rock )
Record label Genre Ambient music Campfire Songs (album) Delay (audio effect) Boss Corporation Simon Reynolds The Wire (magazine) Merriweather Post Pavilion (album) People (Animal Collective EP)
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