A Zoological Garden

Panda Bear

(Soccer Star, 1999)

Avey Tare and Panda Bear
Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished (Animal, 2000);

Avey Tare, Panda Bear, and Geologist
Danse Manatee (Catsup Plate, 2001).
Collected on double discs (Fat Cat, 2003): Reconcile yourself with the speaker-slicing, high-pitch shrieks and drones—beautiful themselves—and Spirit‘s ample, easy charms emerge: shades of jazz, the Beach Boys, and pixie glitter. Danse births the beats and a giddy lawlessness, sounding like ear probes aboard the mothership.

Avey Tare, Panda Bear, and Geologist

Hollindagain

(St. Ives, 2002)

Avey Tare, Panda Bear, and Deakin

Campfire Songs

(Catsup Plate, 2003): a stripped and dosed folk artifact recorded on a Maryland porch, where it probably sounded better

Animal Collective

Here Comes the Indian

(Paw Tracks, 2003): wild like war games after dark, and about as easy to parse as smoke signals in a wildfire

Avey Tare

Crumbling Land

split 12-inch with David Grubbs (Fat Cat, 2003)

Animal Collective

Sung Tongs

(Fat Cat, 2004), featuring Avey Tare and Panda Bear: last year’s most genuine, moving, and inventive music, where world citizens consecrate friendship with their voices, hands, and whatever else works

Animal Collective

Wastered

split 12-inch with Black Dice (Paw Tracks, 2004)

Panda Bear

Young Prayer

(Paw Tracks, 2004): Noah’s mostly voice-and-guitar memorial to his late father. Stark but not harrowing, these untitled songs are as fleeting as memories.

Animal Collective featuring Vashti Bunyan

Prospect Hummer

(Fat Cat EP, 2005): Bunyan, obscure ’60s British folkie and ’00s indie-geek icon, contributes courtly, fragile vocals, claiming these Sung Tongs outtakes as her own.

Animal Collective

Feels

(Fat Cat, 2005)

COMPILATIONS AND OTHER APPEARANCES

Avey Tare and Panda Bear

“Forest Children Risen,”

Northeast Noise Core

(Contact, 2001)

Animal Collective

“In the City That Reads” with Arto Lindsay,

Invoke

(Righteous Babe, 2002)

Animal Collective

“The Kite,”

They Keep Me Smiling

(UUAR, 2004)

Panda Bear,

“Search for Delicious,”

Comes With a Smile

magazine comp (2005)

Avey Tare

“Judy Biworker,”

Esopus magazine comp (2005)

Geologist and Deakin

“Seeing Twinkles,”

Music for Plants

(Plant, 2005)

RELATED PROJECTS

Jane

(featuring Panda Bear and Scott Mou)

Coconuts CDR (2002)

Paradise CDR (2003)

Berserker (Paw Tracks, 2004)

Terrestrial Tones

(featuring Avey Tare and Eric Copeland)

“Experimental Farm,” Space Is No Place comp (Psych-O-Path, 2004)

“Facemask,” They Keep Me Smiling (UUAR, 2004)

Blasted (Psych-O-Path, 2004)

Oboroed/Circus Lives (UUAR, 2005)