Here Comes The Indian
by Animal Collective

Album
Here Comes The Indian by Animal Collective
Year: 2003
Release date: 2003-06-17
Overall rank: 6,295th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 170 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2003 (122nd)
Award Top albums of of the 2000s (1,076th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,295th)

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Animal Collective bestography

Here Comes The Indian is ranked 10th best out of 30 albums by Animal Collective on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Animal Collective is Merriweather Post Pavilion which is ranked number 161 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 8,672.

Animal Collective album bestography « Higher ranked (5,688th)
Painting With This album (6,295th)
Here Comes The Indian Lower ranked (8,072nd) »
Meeting Of The Waters

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Here Comes The Indian track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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1.
Native Belle
Average Rating: 74 (28 votes)Comments: View 0
2.
Hey Light
Average Rating: 75 (27 votes)Comments: View 0
3.
Infant Dressing Table
Average Rating: 75 (25 votes)Comments: View 0
4.
Panic
Average Rating: 70 (24 votes)Comments: View 1
5.
Two Sails On A Sound
Average Rating: 76 (25 votes)Comments: View 0
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Slippi
Average Rating: 80 (28 votes)Comments: View 1
7.
Too Soon
Average Rating: 75 (24 votes)Comments: View 0

Here Comes The Indian rankings

Here Comes The Indian rankings summary
Overall rank: 6,295th | 2000s rank: 1,076th | 2003 rank: 122nd  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 170 votes)
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 !		07/27/2026 10:58 Tamthebam  Ratings distribution  23,40569/100
 
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 !		06/02/2026 15:26 EyeKanFly  Ratings distribution  9,05965/100
 
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 !		06/01/2026 09:53 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  16,64170/100

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From NoisyBeast 09/05/2023 00:19 in What album are you listening to right now?
“Taking me a few listens to absorb / wrap my head around this one! Hearing lots of new stuff each time!!”
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From Anti 03/11/2020 20:01 in Hail Yourself
“I remember blindly purchasing this record at my local record store years ago because Madlib said if he could play this album every day of his life, he would. I enjoyed it a good amount at the time, and I LOVE it now that my tastes have matured and my patience with music has lengthened. And that's…”
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From Komorebi-D 06/25/2017 06:31 in Albums You Added To Your Collection Today
“Both digitally but I intend to grab myself the physical copies when I find them. That still counts right?”
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From 01/11/2016 18:56 | #156311 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I kind of agree with PsychologistHD. This album is far too difficult to listen to, and it's way too harsh for my taste. Thank God that Animal Collective ditched this sound over the course of their career.
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60/100
From 10/03/2018 07:22 | #221983 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Bunch of kids whose parents never told them “no”.
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30/100
From 11/13/2018 18:19 | #224878 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
So I guess this is what happens when you put a panda bear in a recording studio... What was a geologist doing there anyway?
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From 07/30/2015 14:40 | #146728 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Starts off with a bang and drones for forty or so minutes. I enjoyed the album, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't occasionally lose patience with it.
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70/100
From 12/14/2021 17:07 | #277486 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Slippi is pretty great, but the rest is 40 minutes of self-indulgent bullshit.
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