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Animal Collective - Water Curses [EP]
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| Since the start of their rise to the top of the art-rock underground, the beatific chums in Animal Collective have warbled, wheezed, whinged, and wowed—all in alternating currents that make each album and EP sound like a relic from an age they've already consigned to the past. It's made for an admirable custom of closing the book to start the binding on a new one, but Water Curses suggests a better practice by working as both a summation and a start. The four-track EP hints back at last year's Strawberry Jam, but the songs are more melodic and spacious—more patient in making way for whatever drifts in....full text |
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| Drownedinsound |
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Released a year on from its parent album, these EP outings tend to offer up nothing more than giblets not worth the salt, hosed-down versions for aficionados and few others. Water Curses? Quite. But Animal Collective have been releasing post-record leftovers for the last few LPs with the neo-tribal haunts of Prospect Hummer (2005) and People (2006) both fine concluding chapters for Sung Tongs and Feels, these coming before the Baltimore co-op dived headfirst into the electronic swamp of last year’s blissful sugar-rush album, Strawberry Jam (review)....full text |
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| Nowtoronto |
| Animal Collective have been making experimental indie rock for about eight years, but 2007 definitely saw them come of age. That was when they released the critically acclaimed Strawberry Jam, a compelling and complex pop disc that landed them on countless year-end best-of lists. Thankfully, the group had a few tunes left over from that recording session....full text |
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