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Background
Following the release of their critically acclaimed 2009 album Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective released the visual album ODDSAC in 2010. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2010. The band took the film on tour, and during the Miami screening, Coral Morphologic approached Animal Collective member Joshua "Deakin" Dibb with a demo DVD of coral footage.

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Coral Orgy
The Borscht Corporation

Both the audio and visual components of the Coral Orgy performance were reworked into Tangerine Reef.

Film
The accompanying film for Tangerine Reef was created by Coral Morphologic, a self-described "art-science duo" comprised of marine biologist Colin Foord and musician J.D. McKay. Christopher R Weingarten of Rolling Stone described the film as, "a weird, hypnotic, sensual, occasionally Cronenberg-ian look under the waves that gets up close and personal with spawning sealife."

One central theme to the film is sex and reproduction.

After Animal Collective reworked the music from the initial Coral Orgy performance for Tangerine Reef, Coral Morpalogic felt they needed to update and reshoot parts of the film to match the new material.

Release and promotion
After rumors surfaced the week prior, Animal Collective formally announced their eleventh studio album Tangerine Reef on July 16, 2018—about one month before it's official release date. The announcement was accompanied by a short teaser video that included some of both the audio and video components of the album. Animal Collective also released the opening track "Hair Cutter" to all streaming platforms and an accompanying music video directed by John McSwain and Coral Morphologic was released exclusively through Apple Music.

Tangerine Reef was released on August 17, 2018 through Domino Recording Company on LP, CD and digital formats. The audiovisual album's visual component created by Coral Morphologic was released separately from the Tangerine Reef audio album. This part was released for free through the band's official website and video streaming sites such as YouTube and Vimeo on the same day. Physical copies of the album do not include the visual component.

During his radio program The O'Brien System in July 2018, Avey Tare played a demo version of the song "Grassy Grain". The track was written and produced by Tare, and was intended to be released on Tangerine Reef but did not make the cut.

At the time of release, there were no planned dates to tour in support of the Tangerine Reef material. Animal Collective have said they're interested in taking the album on the road, including the possibility of performing at aquariums and art museums, but the added production value of the film requires additional planning. On the possibility of touring, Geologist said: "It's a question of, like, do we have to rent a PA? When you're trying to do things in alternative spaces, we're finding there's a lot more production things you have to think about than how we just show up with our instruments and a hard drive."

Reception
Tangerine Reef was met with mixed reviews from music critics upon release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 60, based on 18 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews". AnyDecentMusic?, another music review aggregating website, assigned a score of 5.6 out of 10 based on 20 reviews.

Some critics noted that the audio and visual components of the project worked best when consumed simultaneously. In Fred Thomas' generally positive review for AllMusic, he wrote: "Like any visual album, the floating sounds here are probably best experienced in conjunction with the visuals they were created for, but even on their own, there's a calm power that grows as the various passages of Tangerine Reef fade in and out of one another." In Jordan Bassett's negative review for NME, he wrote: "This one was originally an art piece performed live at the Borscht Film Festival in Miami, with attendees absorbing the sound and images simultaneously. Divorced of that context, it belongs only in the sea." However Cady Siregar of Drowned in Sound felt the music held up on its own, writing: "But unlike 2010's ODDSAC, the music exists perfectly well apart from the visuals. The result is an album steeped in murky ambiance and stuffy reverb, celestial and ghostly, minute details strewn across the soundwaves to emulate the floating presences of the minute, drifting sea creatures."

For the audio component of the project, critics drew comparisons between Tangerine Reef and some of Animal Collective's other material, including their first audio visual album ODDSAC, their EP recorded in the Amazon rainforest Meeting of the Waters,  as well as their earlier less pop-focused material. In his review for Exclaim, Alex Hudson wrote: "For fans of Animal Collective's trippier inclinations, Tangerine Reef is a pleasant bit of oceanic escapism. For new listeners or anyone looking for the next "My Girls," this is decidedly inessential." The album's opening track "Hair Cutter" was noted by several critics as a stand-out track and one of the more melodic songs on the album. The absence of Panda Bear's vocals and pop-influences    and Avey Tare's often washed-out or difficult-to-make-out vocals     were subject to mixed reception. In her generally positive review for Pitchfork, Sasha Geffen wrote: "Without Panda Bear on board, Animal Collective lose the pop edge that has resulted in their most commercially successful music, but this isn't a project for scoring hits." In Hudson's mixed review, he had a differing view: "Given that Panda is best known for both his percussion and his Beach Boys-esque pop sensibilities, it figures that his contributions are sorely missed."

Personnel
Tangerine Reef personnel adapted from LP liner notes and the film's credits.

Animal Collective

 * Avey Tare
 * Deakin
 * Geologist

Artwork

 * Rob Carmichael – design
 * Coral Morphologic (Colin Foord and Jared McKay) – photography
 * Dave Porter – artwork

Audio production

 * Craig Bowen – recording
 * Dave Cooley – mastering
 * Deakin – mixing
 * Geologist – mixing
 * Jared Paolini – recording, mixing assistance

Video production

 * Coral Morphologic (Colin Foord and Jared McKay) – directing, cinematography, production
 * John McSwain – directing, film editing