Campfire Songs is for the active and possibly obsessed Animal Collective fan.  If you haven’t had the good fortune of listening to their music then I beg you to enter door number 1 and begin your journey.  For those of you that are left, I give you what I believe to be the earliest artifact of what we now know as Animal Collective.  Although there are two LPs before this release, Campfire Songs marks the first time all four members of AC played together.

True to its name, the recording of the album was done in the open air (a screen porch in Maryland to be exact), and the songs played back to back in one take.  Untrue to its name, these songs are definitely not your average “camp songs” - and thank God for that.  The album is somewhere between ambient sound and the foundations of Sung Tongs.  There is something undefinable about Avey Tare’s acoustic guitar playing.  He takes an instrument that is so weighed down in traditional song writing, and transforms it into an enigmatic tool.  Any admirer of Sung Tongs (and if you don’t know what that is you really should have taken door number 1 above) will find a satisfying point of origin in Campfire Songs.

[mp3] Animal Collective - Doggy

Tags: animal collective

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