Hollinndagain

Hollinndagain is a live album by Baltimore based band Animal Collective (here operating under the name Avey Tare, Panda Bear and Geologist), released in 2002 on St. Ives. Only 300 copies were initially made; each and every copy featured a unique cover, hand-made by the band themselves. For several years it was a vinyl-only release; Animal Collective’s own label, Paw Tracks, re-released the album on October 31, 2006, on both CD and vinyl. Although Hollinndagain is a live album, most fans consider it to be the group’s third official album because it contained all new material at the time it was released, except “Lablakely Dress” which previously appeared on Danse Manatee.

Hollinndagain is a collection of live material from around the time of the band’s second album, Danse Manatee. The first three songs were recorded during a performance on New Jersey radio station WFMU; the final four were culled from live shows in New York, Nashville and Austin with Black Dice in the summer of 2001.

Geologist discussed the creation of sounds for Hollinndagain on the Collected Animals message board:

“We didn’t use any samplers, just minidiscs. And we’ve only ever had 2 synths used in Animal Collective, the Roland SH-2 and the Juno-60. We were using both on that material back then… we used lots of pedals and effects processors too and made feedback loops.”