Tangerine Reef

AlbumAug 17 / 201813 songs, 52m 50s
Neo-Psychedelia Ambient Film Score
Popular

Tangerine Reef is a full-length audiovisual album by Animal Collective (Avey Tare, Deakin and Geologist), in collaboration with Coral Morphologic, to commemorate the 2018 International Year of the Reef. Tangerine Reef is a visual tone poem consisting of time-lapse and slow pans across surreal aquascapes of naturally fluorescent coral and cameos by alien-like reef creatures (note: no CGI or artificial enhancement was used in this film). Tangerine Reef is the sight and sound of a literal underwater collective of animals. In 2017, the Borscht Film Festival commissioned Coral Orgy, a collaborative site-specific performance by Animal Collective and Coral Morphologic ‘celebrating the cosmic synchronicity of sex on the reef’ in the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center on Miami Beach. The success of this performance ultimately led to this studio recording of Tangerine Reef and a subsequent performance at David Lynch’s Festival of Disruption earlier this spring at Brooklyn Steel in Brooklyn, NY.

531

6.9 / 10

Composed by Avey Tare, Geologist, and Deakin, AnCo’s second audiovisual album reckons abstractly with the environmental devastation and the potentially horrifying consequences yet to come.

F

Nicki Minaj reaches for the throne room, Animal Collective unearths an interesting live artifact, Death Cab do more Death Cabbing, and more in this week of new releases.

6 / 10

For all this record's conceptual clarity, the latest from Animal Collective lacks inherent bite

6.2 / 10

Death Cab rediscover their fundamental magic, while Animal Collective may have misplaced theirs

When Animal Collective began as a crew of closely knit teenage friends in the mid-'90s, one of the primary influences on their early style was the eerie and disorienting tension of horror movie soundtracks.

6 / 10

There are two tiers of Animal Collective albums: there are full-blown studio LPs, and then there are weirdo experimental projects like 2017'...

6.0 / 10

As an audiovisual album in tandem with Coral Morphologic, Tangerine Reef is a trippy beauty, with Animal Collective embodying the life of a coral reef and its inhabitants.

6 / 10

Musical collaborations have given us some gems over the years. Beyoncé and Lady Gaga, Onyx and Biohazard, Robert Fripp and Brian Eno, and the

(Domino)

8 / 10

For nearly 20 years, Baltimore's Animal Collective have consistently done things their way.

8.5 / 10

Animal Collective 'Tangerine Reef' album review, by Andy Resto. The full-length is now out via Domino Records and various streaming platforms.

60 %

Tangerine Reef is an ambient sort of thing that more closely resembles earlier Animal Collective releases like Danse Manatee or Water Curses.

3.9 / 5

Animal Collective - Tangerine Reef review: Get your eyes on the prize (wiping the burrito off the windshield).