Tangerine Reef  Tangerine Reef is the second visual album by American experimental pop band Animal Collective, released on August 17, 2018, through Domino. It is the band's first full-length release without Panda Bear, and was made in collaboration with art-science duo Coral Morphologic and in celebration of the International Year of the Reef. It was the band’s first visual album since 2010’s "ODDSAC". The album is accompanied by a film, which premiered on the band's website upon release. "Tangerine Reef" is the product of longtime collaborations between Animal Collective and Coral Morphologic, an art-science duo consisting of marine biologist Colin Foord and musician J.D. McKay. The two groups first met in 2010 at a screening of Animal Collective's "ODDSAC", when Coral Morphologic gave Deakin a DVD consisting of their work. The members of Animal Collective were impressed by the footage and reached out, leading to several collaborations, such as Geologist soundtracking Coral Morphologic's 2011 short film "Man o War", and Foord providing spoken word on Avey Tare's solo album "Eucalyptus". The two groups have also gone scuba diving together. The genesis of "Tangerine Reef" came in February 2017 at an art exhibition called "Coral Orgy", hosted at New World Center in Miami, where Animal Collective performed over video projections made by Coral Morphologic. Material from "Tangerine Reef" was also played live in May 2018 during a performance at David Lynch's Festival of Disruption in Brooklyn. The band recorded the initial performance with the intent of releasing it as a live album, but found the recording "unusable" due to crowd noise. Rather than abandon the project, the band got together at a Baltimore studio run in part by Deakin and "took a few days and did four or five run-throughs of the Miami set." To recapture the feel of the original performance, the album was recorded live and with no overdubs. The recording was then sent to Coral Morphologic to provide the video component. Animal Collective thought it could simply be paired with the video they originally performed to, but Coral Morphologic felt they needed to re-shoot parts of it. The album features the standard lineup of the band with the exception of Panda Bear, the band's first full-length release to do so. Panda Bear also did not feature in the live performances of the music. His absence is due to distance, as he lives in Portugal.