Paw Tracks is proud to present the reissue of Animal Collective’s 2003
album Campfire Songs. Since the CD's original issue on catsup plate
recently went out of print it’s the label’s intention to simply keep the
cd in print for as long as possible.
An idea originally thought up by Dave Portner and Noah Lennox while in
college, Campfire Songs is not a record of songs sung around a campfire but a record that hints at songs emerging from the fire itself: “We wanted to give the music the feeling and atmosphere of the outdoors and the warmth of a fire, so people could bring it indoors.”
A collection of five songs written over a period of four to five years,
Campfire Songs is an escape from the clutter and electronic assault of
the group's 2001 release Danse Manatee and the tour that preceded it.
However, the tapestry quality of the songs and the lines that blur
endings from beginnings and jams from compositions highlight a style
that the boys had become comfortable with from touring and would
continue to work on in the years that followed on records like Here
Comes The Indian and Feels.
While the songs were completed in the apartment that three of the
members shared (Geologist does not play on this album) they chose to
record the music on a screened-in porch in Maryland using portable mini
disc players so as to allow the ambience of trees blowing in the wind,
the birds chirping and the insects in the area to become an integral
part of the sound flow. What remains intact are the melodies that have
always been a part of the AC sound - though here they have been stripped
away of any electronic accompaniment and stretched and slowed to a
calmer place than anywhere AC had been before and perhaps has gone since.
Tracklisting: 1. Queen In My Pictures 2. Doggy 3. Two Corvettes 4. Moo
Rah Rah Rain 5. De Soto De Son
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ANIMAL COLLECTIVE 'Campfire Songs' reissue album released 25th January 2010
Living Sacrifice Album Date Moved to January 2010