Two CDs. Delxue digitally remastered 20th Anniversary edition. Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished is the first collaborative studio album by Avey Tare (David Portner) and Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), released in August 2000. It was later retroactively classified as the debut album by Portner and Lennox’s group Animal Collective. The album was first released as a CD on the band’s own Animal label (now known as Paw Tracks) with only 2000 copies produced.