Here Comes the Indian

Ark (formerly known as Here Comes The Indian) is the debut (later retroactively classified as the fourth) studio album by experimental pop band Animal Collective, released June 17, 2003 on Paw Tracks. It is the first release by the group on which all four members perform together: Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Geologist (Brian Weitz), and Deakin (Josh Dibb). In 2020, the band renamed the album to Ark because they felt the title objectified American Indians.

Ark
Studio album by
Animal Collective
ReleasedJune 17, 2003
Recorded2003
Genre
Length44:32
LabelPaw Tracks
Animal Collective chronology
Campfire Songs
(2003)		 Ark
(2003)		 Sung Tongs
(2004)

Recording

The album was recorded live in three days. Avey Tare played his guitar through an Ibanez delay rack and Boss pitch shifter/delay pedal to create a doubled, fuller sound, since he was the only one playing guitar at the time. The group also took turns processing sounds through various effects, such as a Roland SH-2 synthesizer and a vocoder. Avey and Panda Bear later recorded the vocals at Avey's house onto MiniDisc, then added in electronic sounds along with piano loops that Avey had made. Mixing of the album lasted between three and four days.

In the run-up to the recording sessions, the members experienced a challenging time. After difficulties on tour and within the band, member Brian Weitz (Geologist) had decided to leave the band for one year to attend graduate school in Arizona. According to him, the recording was "the absolute heart of that darkness ... That’s why the album’s so hectic and chaotic. It was trying to shove all this weird energy into one recording."[3]

"Hey Light" was latter re-worked for live performances as a mashup with "Doggy" from Campfire Songs for live performances in 2007. Furthermore, "Slippi" made a brief return to live shows in 2009, followed by "Native Belle" in late 2019.

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Pitchfork8.6/10[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]
Stylus MagazineA[7]
Uncut[8]

Reviewing Here Comes the Indian for Stylus Magazine, Ed Howard afforded the album favorable comparisons to Boredoms' Super æ and Vision Creation Newsun.[7] The Rolling Stone Album Guide described the album as more "claustrophobic" than earlier releases by Animal Collective.[6] Uncut's reviewer compared the band to the Residents, "whose absurdist humour the AC also shares".[8]

2020 reissue

On July 2, 2020, following a reissue of the band's discography on Bandcamp, the group announced that the album's title would be changed to Ark, explaining that "having the word 'Indian' in [their] record title sends the wrong message by objectifying the American Indian people." As the band has "drawn countless inspiration [sic] from Indigenous people in America and around the world", they will also be donating a portion of the royalties from the album to Seeding Sovereignty, an indigenous rights and environmental justice charity.[9]

Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Native Belle"3:52
2."Hey Light"5:41
3."Infant Dressing Table"8:35
4."Panic"4:48
5."Two Sails on a Sound"12:20
6."Slippi"2:49
7."Too Soon"6:27
Total length:44:32

Personnel
gollark: The programmers of the past were better than you, and made their programming languages from scratch on less power than random microcontrollers have.
gollark: With lots of tooling already.
gollark: On fast computers.
gollark: But you can't even implement Macron now.
gollark: Also engineering.

References
  1. Gumshoe. "Favorite 100 Albums of 2000-2009". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  2. http://reynoldsretro.blogspot.com/2009/01/animal-collective-feels-directors-cut.html
  3. MOTHER NATURE’S SONS: Animal Collective and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti by Simon Reynolds, The Wire, 2005
  4. Pytlik, Mark. "Here Comes the Indian – Animal Collective". AllMusic. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
  5. Beta, Andy (June 17, 2003). "Animal Collective: Here Comes the Indian". Pitchfork. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
  6. "Animal Collective: Album Guide". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on June 5, 2013. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
  7. Howard, Ed (September 10, 2003). "Animal Collective – Here Comes the Indian – Review". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on March 30, 2014. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
  8. "Animal Collective – Here Comes The Indian". Uncut (75): 97. August 2003. Archived from the original on October 27, 2005. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
  9. Minsker, Evan. "Animal Collective Changing EP Art, Citing "Racist Stereotypes," Issue Apology". Pitchfork. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
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