Campfire Songs (Reissue)

Animal Collective | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 26, 2010)
• Original Release Date: 2010
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Paw Tracks
• ASIN: B002Y1L4NU
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #207,895 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Queen In My Pictures

2. Doggy

3. Two Corvettes

4. Moo Rah Rah Rain

5. De Soto De Son

Editorial Reviews

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 is our 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."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Important step in Animal Collective's development, February 7, 2010

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Erodetus Sum "theshi" (michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Campfire Songs (MP3 Download)

Though the initial pressing of this release was not credited to Animal Collective, it is actually the first album in their discography that the entire band plays on (as it's their first album to feature Deakin.) Now Animal Collective has reissued the album with their name appearing in the liner notes. This is probably Animal Collective's sparsest, most ethereal album. Though popular rumor is that this record is an improvisation, it's actually a very carefully composed performance captured in a very stripped down manner, everyone playing together live, recording to Geologist's mini-disc recorders on a screened in porch (in mid-November no less). It takes many listens for the structure of this record to reveal itself, and anyone who got into Animal Collective through their last few albums and EP's would do well to check out their album Sung Tongs and the Prospect Hummer EP with Vashti Bunyan to get a sense of this side of the band before looking into Campfire Songs. But for shameless fanboys such as myself who were just a little too late the first time around, this reissue is a must.

5.0 out of 5 stars All Good, April 22, 2011

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j a buckenmyer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Campfire Songs (Reissue) (Audio CD)

This product was exactly as advertised. i recommend wholly. A++++. It is all good for me. (more words to appease Amazon.com, though nothing more to say).

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's Animal Collective.... Need I Say More?, September 2, 2007

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Myles Byrne-Dunhill (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Campfire Songs (Audio CD)

I mean seriously its a superflow of amazing musicianship from brooklyn's finest. Sit on a couch and put this in. You will feel the songs change your perception on the room you're in, it is that surreal-inducing. Beautifully natural and naturally beautiful.