Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished
by Avey Tare & Panda Bear
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Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished is ranked 5th 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 162 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 8,633.
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Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | mttr-in-plc | Top 94 Music Albums of the 2000s | 24/94 | 15 |
| 2026 | Untitled | Top 22 Music Albums of 2000 | 9/22 | 3 |
| 2026 |  ssteve | Top 59 Music Albums of 2000 | 15/59 | 4 |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 49/100 | 10 |
| 2026 | ThuramThugood | Ranked - Animal Collective (US) - Ranked | 6/24 | - |
| 2026 | mianfei | Top 59 Music Albums of the 2000s | 36/59 | 8 |
| 2026 |  EyeKanFly | Top 72 Music Albums of 2000 | 66/72 | 0 |
| 2026 |  BozoTyrannus | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 48/100 | 51 |
| 2026 | 19loveless91 | Animal Collective | 3/26 | - |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2000 | 15/100 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 180 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,175 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/16/2026 14:31 | Timooosterink | 920 | 72/100 |
| ! | 06/08/2026 01:54 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,152 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/10/2026 21:31 | Untitled | 1,811 | 77/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.3/100, a mean average of 77.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.0.
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BestEverAlbums 10/02/2026 08:18 in Monthly overall chart movements - September 2026 BestEverAlbums 09/09/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5430): By ForegroundNoise BestEverAlbums 09/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movements - August 2026Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished comments
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So, after doing some research and realizing Animal Collective was (and still is) one of the most influential and innovative bands of the last decade I decided to listen to all of their albums. So far this is the only one I have listened to, and man it is LOVELY. The first track is really annoying tho, but annoyingly hipnotic, and Alvin Row is a masterpiece.
I also read that later on these guys release their best albums, so there are 2 options about their discography:
1: It is absolutely INCREDIBLE and the first album is only the beggining of the awesomeness
OR
2: Their debut is really underrated and their most acclaimed albums (Strawberry Jam, Merriweather Post Pavillion) are just as good
I never realized the beauty of Avey's lyrics here until I actually went and read them. There's mostly this common theme about growing up, loss of innocence (perspective of both the child and a parent!), reminiscing about the past (also common in later AnCo work). So much of their music seems joyous but with a touch of melancholy present...
I love this band. This is just Avey and Panda, but it's already about as great as it got later on. The sound is already there, as magically beautiful as always, the melodies are hidden within these textures (btw, from perspective of the sound, I think this album is closer to Centipede Hz than any other AnCo album), Panda's drumming is probably at its very best. I love it.
La Rapet, Chocolate Girl, April and the Phantom... Just lovely.
Onater 12/23/2017 07:24 | #203754 | TOP COMMENT
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Easily Animal Collective's best album, and very different from the more experimental stuff they would do for the next couple of years and the more accessible stuff they would do after that. Yes it's noisy, yes it's weird, and yes it can be difficult to listen to, but there is this strange kind of nostalgia hidden in it that makes this one of the most otherworldly and beautiful albums I've ever listened to.
ledemoncleaner 12/23/2015 21:03 | #155004 | TOP COMMENT
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Absolutely excellent at certain points, but some of the ear rape on this album (especially with the high frequencies of the first song) can overshadow the truly gorgeous tunes on the album.
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