Amanita was the second album by Bardo Pond, released on April 3, 1996. It was released as a double vinyl LP on Drunken Fish Records, as well as a single CD and cassette on Matador Records; it was their first release on Matador. (The vinyl version has two bonus tracks.) Counting their four early self-released cassettes, this is the band's sixth or seventh album, but is generally viewed as their third officially-released album. A Drunken Fish mail-order catalog described the album thus: The album was recorded at Studio Red.