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▓▒▓ ███▀ Avey Tare and Panda Bear - Spirit Theyre Gone Spirit ▀███
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GENRE...........: Indie
▓▄ ▄▓▄ RiPPER .........: hXc ripping crew ▄▓▄ ▄▓
▀██████ RELEASE DATE ...: juil.-25-2003 ██████▀
▀█▓██▓ STORE DATE .....: 000-00-2000 ▓████▀
▀███ ARTiST .........: Avey Tare and Panda Bear ███▀
▓█▌ LABEL ..........: the animal collective ▐█▓
▐██▌ SOURCE .........: CDDA ▐██▌
▓██ BiTRATE ........: 192kbps / 44,1kHz / Full Stereo ██▓
▐██▌ SIZE ...........: 83,5 MB ▐██▌
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[01] Spirit Theyve Vanished [05:37]
[02] April and the Phantom [05:55]
[03] Penny Dreadfuls [02:59]
[04] Chocolate Girl [07:59]
[05] Everyone Whistling [08:28]
[06] La Rapet [01:00]
[07] Bat Youll Fly [07:52]
[08] Someday Ill Grow to Be as Tall as the Gian [05:05]
[09] Alvin Now [03:10]
[10] Untitled [12:39]
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[60:44]
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Anyone ever stumble across Struwwelpeter, the
19th century German children's book by Heinrich
Hoffmann? Mark Twain himself translated it to
English, although I doubt it made it to the
bedside of too many American kids. This
illustrated book is comprised of short lyrics
describing the horrific things that happen to
naughty children: Cruel Frederick is attacked
by his own maltreated dog; Pauline plays with
matches and burns to death while her cats
watch; Conrad the thumbsucker winds up with his
thumbs cut off by the red-legged scissor-man. I
don't need to go on. There's something so
downright un-American about the whole grisly
affair, something alien about the gleeful
proximity of children to violence and
mutilation. Fortunately, I was a college German
student when I encountered Struwwelpeter, and
it freaked me out even then. Yet Spirit They're
Gone, Spirit They've Vanished, the incredible
but bizarre release by Avey Tare and Panda Bear
brings the fates of those luckless kraut kinder
back to mind.
The marriage of psychedelia and fairy-tale
imagery goes back at least to "Lucy in the Sky
with Diamonds"; Pink Floyd's Piper at the Gates
of Dawn, the Dead's Aoxomoxoa: the first
flowering of psychedelia was joyously
regressive, celebrating juvenilia as the
antidote to modern rationality. Yet what was
indelibly excised was menace-- what the gnomes
and newspaper taxis conceal. Remember the boat
ride through the tunnel in the movie Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory? In the middle of
this sucrose wonderland, there's something
fucking awful.
Don't choke on the references. Forget them.
Avey Tare and Panda Bear's Spirit They're Gone,
Spirit They've Vanished is a masterful piece of
electro-acoustic fairy-tale music; yet its
squealing electronics, and vitrified rhythms
suggest something darker. Like a Snickers bar
with a razorblade in it.
Spirit They're Gone is Avey Tare's album; he
sings, and plays guitars, pianos, and
electronics. Panda Bear, meanwhile, mans the
crumpled percussion. The album opens with the
high-frequency squall and delicate vocals of
"Spirit They've Vanished," offering little clue
about future directions. However, the second
track, "April and the Phantom" is
crystallizing: expert acoustic guitars, fierce
drumming and Daltrey-esque screams resemble the
Who resurrected as the seventh member of the
Elephant 6. Tinkling toy pianos, organs and
exclamations of digital noise round out the
track, while Tare perilously insists, "She ran
out of nature," again and again.
The wistful "Penny Dreadfuls" lays simple piano
over needled electronics reminiscent of Pita or
Christian Fennesz in a kind of lysergic dirge
on the end of childhood. "Chocolate Girl" is
dubbed-out calliope music, swirling and
swirling: a strange meditation seemingly on
sexual awakening, awkward but erotic in the
midst of an enchanted forest of an album. The
interstellar Nintendo drone of "Everyone
Whistling" is irresistible space-pop, backed by
some incredibly nimble jazz drumming. The
twelve-minute "Alvin Row" is an epic closer,
emerging from free-noise clatter, insect
electronics and demented piano into sunny
Beatlesque psych-pop. "Can you hear me,
troubadour?" Tare asks before the eruption of
furious ivories. Schlock horror organs abound
and the cymbals crash like storms. The album
collapses into the crackly sample of a child
(Alfalfa from the Little Rascals?) saying, "My
singing voice is gone... My singing voice is
gone... My singing voice is gone..."
Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished is
not only outstanding, but one of the most
original sounding albums out there. This
record, as I've said, marries the pleasant and
the violent and is not for timid ears: the
sparkling pop never strays far from the
lacerating noise. The lyrics are largely
indecipherable but occasional gems and
wonderful turns of phrase emerge from the
bright din. Two mysterious fellow travelers
(one-half of the four-man Animal collective)
seem to have stumbled upon each other and
created something truly beautiful. The only
question is: which one of them is the walrus?
-Brent S. Sirota
(pitchfork review)
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