ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Campfire Songs (2010 issue UK 5-track CD mini-album - Originally released in 2003, 'Campfire Songs' began life as an idea thought up by Dave Portner and Noah Lennox while in college, and 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.' A collection of five songs written over a period of four to five years, 'Campfire Songs' is an escape from the clutter and electronic assault of the group's 2001 release 'Danse Manatee' and the tour that preceded it. While the songs were completed in the apartment that three of the members shared [Geologist does not play on this album], they chose to record the music on a screened-in porch in Maryland using portable mini disc players so as to allow the ambience of trees blowing in the wind, the birds chirping and the insects in the area to become an integral part of the sound flow!).