Album Review: Animal Collective Put Your Life On “Tangerine Reef”
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. It is a visual tone poem consisting of time-lapse and slow pans across surreal aqua-scapes of naturally fluorescent coral and cameos by alien-like reef creatures. Thus, the album is the accumulating of sound of a literal underwater collective of animals. Hence, in hearing their life, you feel like you are hearing yours as well.
Music can influence a mind and, from “Coral Realization” to “Inspector Gadget,” Tangerine Reef can transform any space into oceanic. With spoken words from Avey Tare floating throughout tracks, as if your life was an Animal Planet documentary, Tangerine Reef’s audio feels curious. “Buxom,” “Palythoa,” and and “Buffalo Tomato” go beyond the usual rating scopes of good or bad to become exciting and examining. Therefore, sonically, this is Animal Collective’s most eclectic album; transforming from their “get the party started,” entertaining tracks into ones that inspire role playing and altering effects.
Vastly inquisitive and opening to imaginations, Animal Collective’s Tangerine Reef, as an album, can simply be describe into one word: marine. If you want your day to feel as engulfing, dangerous, and magnificent as the ocean then try Tangerine Reef. To Buy Animal Collective’s Tangerine Reef on August 17 Click Here.
