Tangerine Reef is a project that may likely polarize Animal Collective fans, and it may not be an ideal jumping-off point for anyone looking to discover this unique band, but it's a worthy addition to their catalog, and it supports a supremely important cause in this day and age.
Like any visual album, the floating sounds here are probably best experienced in conjunction with the visuals they were created for, but even on their own, there's a calm power that grows as the various passages of Tangerine Reef fade in and out of one another.
With Tangerine Reef, Animal Collective’s second audiovisual album, the band leans deep into its nautical tendencies, crafting a surreal soundtrack for “avant-garde coral macro-videography” (read: underwater footage of coral reefs).
Tangerine Reef has its moments, but it veers in and out of being truly engaging all on its own.
I have no doubt that Tangerine Reef will be a remarkable experience when paired with its visual stimuli, but without it, it is an album hard to recommend.
For fans of Animal Collective's trippier inclinations, Tangerine Reef is a pleasant bit of oceanic escapism. For new listeners or anyone looking for the next "My Girls," this is decidedly inessential.
While Tangerine Reef inspires as a pseudo-political statement regarding the deteriorating environment at the hands of mankind, Animal Collective ultimately disappoints with this record—it’s yet another forgettable checkpoint within the band’s recent run.
Too much of Tangerine Reef feels like ambient murk in service of nothing.
The worst way to engage with Tangerine Reef is by listening to it.
In search, perhaps, of something more profound than the Beach Boys-haunted lo-fi surrealism of early albums, or the fizzing avant-garde electropop that became their calling card after 2009 breakthough album Merriweather Post Pavilion, AC plumb depths of paucity more than subtlety in this wilfully desolate expanse of dispassionate vocals and vague, awkward ambience.
Tangerine Reef is more like the sound of pretending to experience something profound.
๐๐ป๐ถ๐บ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ผ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ'๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ฐ๐ผ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ต๐: ๐ง๐ฎ๐ป๐ด๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ณ
AnCo’s 2016 album, Painting With, was a reaction to the growing popularity of reverby soundscapes in music; instead of creating ambient, experimental noises, the record focused on putting together more accessible, happier tunes. That album shows the band ‘settling down’ in a way - it’s a less ... read more
You’re not Aphex Twin.
Animal Collective made their second huge drop in quality in their career, and this makes me saddened. I loved everything they made from 2004 to 2011, and liked the album that came after.
This album has good intentions. It sounds much better than their sophomore slump, and it’s there to at least attempt to please fans of the likes of Aphex Twin and Boards Of Canada. However, I have a big problem with this album.
It bored me to death throughout almost the ... read more
This wasn't a fun listen. I enjoyed the first 2 songs, then I checked how long the album had been playing for... I then started crying. This album is way longer than it has any right to be, this is 52-fucking-minutes of nothing at all. Nothing fucking happens for that length of time, that's almost an hour of textual nothing, and the blandest of bland ambience. This album is meant to sound like being under the sea, but fuck if this is what the ocean sounds like then I'm not going down there, ... read more
Honk shoo honk shoo. I get this is technically a soundtrack album that's supposed to accompany a video, but it's not like the video makes the music much more interesting. I will admit I'm already not the biggest ambient music enjoyer out there, but idk this feels kind dull even for ambient music. The textures and atmospheres that are built just aren't all that immersive, so it just ends up boring. For the most part it does work as perfectly fine wallpaper music, and there are in fact some ... read more
esquecível apesar de ter momentos surpreendentemente bonitos, mas que não ficam eficientes pela repetitividade e poucos momentos verdadeiramente interessantes
melhores: Airpipe (To a New Transition)
piores: sei lá, o resto...?
sitting here in absolute disbelief WHY did you make an ambient album animal collective
+22 points for being sonic melatonin
1 | Hair Cutter 4:01 | 59 |
2 | Buffalo Tomato 4:49 | 61 |
3 | Inspector Gadget 4:19 | 55 |
4 | Buxom 4:40 | 60 |
5 | Coral Understanding 3:44 | 53 |
6 | Airpipe (To a New Transition) 6:03 | 55 |
7 | Jake and Me 4:25 | 61 |
8 | Coral by Numbers 2:26 | 47 |
9 | Hip Sponge 3:53 | 47 |
10 | Coral Realization 3:00 | 42 |
11 | Lundsten Coral 3:05 | 55 |
12 | Palythoa 4:11 | 63 |
13 | Best of Times (Worst of All) 4:09 | 58 |