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Confirmed to be twenty years ahead of 2020’s TikTok trends, a revival of Animal Collective’s first full-length album, 2000’s Spirits Gone To Them, Spirits Lostwill feature a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams,” which they recorded at the time.
The reissue, out May 12, comes with an EP, A night at Mr. Raindrop’s Holistic Supermarket, which contains the cover and four other previously unreleased tracks. The extended release and EP will be available digitally and on triple-LP and double-CD formats, while Spirits They Don’t Have will also be available as a double LP.
The reissue features restored audio and new footage by AnCo’s Avey Tare and her sister Abby Portner. The album, originally titled Avey Tare and Panda Bear, first came out on a mini-CD run by the Animal label.
Although “Dreams” was never released, Animal Collective shared the remastered version of “Chocolate Girl” and the previously unreleased “Untitled #1.” The final track is a psychedelic release from another universe with a melodious melody and formless melodies rendered in ethereal tones. In true AnCo fashion, the track creates noise at the edge.
“I was like, ‘I want to put together a whole album (2000’s Spirits Gone To Them, Spirits Lost) of the material, it’s not just these random shots I’ve made – something that feels like something combined, everything for me, ‘” Tare said. Spin around in 2016. “And I told Noah to tap it. And since I had to make a name for it, I was like, ‘Oh, I have to stick with a name. And he can be a name on top, and we will be the only two people and we can all be these people who work together with each other.’ That was the beginning of Animal Collective, really. ”
A night at Mr. Raindrop’s Holistic Supermarket EP List:
1. “An Angel”
2. “No Name #1”
3. “New York Bus Tour Tare My Face pt. “1”
4. “Dream” (Fleetwood Mac cover)
5. “New York Bus Tour Tare My Face pt. 2”