Animal Collective Releases New Album TANGERINE REEF

Today, Animal Collective share the full length film from Tangerine Reef, their audiovisual album made in collaboration with Coral Morphologic.

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.

Tangerine Reef is available on streaming / digital services, CD, and 2xLP today.

Animal Collective will donate a portion of the proceeds from Tangerine Reef to reef conservation efforts at the Ocean Foundation Coral Reef Initiative, Project Coral, and Oceana.

Coral Morphologic is an art-science duo formed by marine biologist Colin Foord and musician J.D. McKay in 2007 in Miami. Pioneers of avant-garde coral macro-videography, their work has been featured on the National Geographic Channel, the BBC, as well as the cover of Vice Magazine corresponding to their 2015 documentary 'Coral City'. They are currently working under a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) grant to study a population of unusually resilient 'super corals' that Coral Morphologic discovered colonizing the submerged urban edge of the highway connecting Miami to Miami Beach.

Coral Morphologic first met Animal Collective after a Miami screening of the band's first visual album Oddsac in 2010 by giving Deakin a DVD-R of their first coral film demos. After hitting it off over a mutual love for underwater exploration, subsequent collaborations include Geologist's soundtracking of Coral Morphologic's short film 'Man O War' in 2011, and has continued through two dive trips; one doomed by Hurricane Irene in the Turks and Caicos and the second to the United States' northernmost coral reef, the Flower Garden Banks. 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. Animal Collective also performed this material live at David Lynch's Festival of Disruption earlier this spring at Brooklyn Steel in Brooklyn, NY.

Animal Collective walks the walk when it comes to ocean conservation, having previously worked on projects supporting marine protection areas and shark conservation. Geologist (Brian Weitz) has a masters degree in environmental policy from Columbia University with a focus on the marine environment. As an undergraduate, he spent a semester working at the infamous Biosphere 2 Center in Arizona, assisting on some of the first CO2 acidification studies on coral growth inside its captive 'ocean.' Following his masters degree, he had a marine policy fellowship with the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Oceans, Fisheries, and Coast Guard. Deakin (Josh Dibb) is also a passionate scuba diver who has been diving throughout the world. He and Weitz have taken at least one scuba trip together every year since 2005 and have directly witnessed the destruction of the world's coral reefs by bleaching events, fishing trawlers, and dynamite fishing. Most recently, Avey Tare (Dave Portner) asked Colin to write and record the opening monologue to 'Coral Lords' on his last solo album 'Eucalyptus'. The band also participated in VICELAND's 2017 documentary miniseries Earthworks, which led to the subsequent release of 2017's "Meeting of the Waters EP.

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