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- Date Released: May 5, 2008
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Alternative
- Label: Domino Recording Co
Four songs from the Strawberry Jam sessions that represent Animal Collective's poppiest gesture yet
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Water Curses is comprised of four songs that were recorded during the sessions for Animal Collective’s 2007 hallmark Strawberry Jam — though there’s enough difference between the EP and the album to make it count as considerably more than just a dump of outtakes. Taken as a whole, Water Curses ranks as Animal Collective’s poppiest gesture yet, with a newly apparent sense of song structure and simple hummability burrowing deep into that part of the brain where earwigs go. The opening title track finds Avey Tare flitting through melodies in dense lyrical lines that rise and fall over a carnival mix of polka drum taps and glimmers of what may or may not be real steel drums. “Street Flash” follows in a more meditative mode, with a slowed rush of sounds and a brilliantly grafted sample of a scream (or a cry or a laugh — it’s hard to tell, exactly) acting as the hook. “Cobwebs” is slower still, and prettier, with a pointed lyrical refrain “We’re not going underground.” The outgoing “Seal Eyeing” plays like a contemplative hymn, all but ambient in terms of energy and irrepressible in terms of tune.
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They Say...
Animal Collective LPs are dizzying affairs (even to fans), jumping from song to song and mood to mood with barely a look backward at what preceded it. Therefore, the Water Curses EP is a good opportunity to see Animal Collective in action on a small scale. Certainly, there's no lack of quality here compared to the better-promoted LPs: the title track is a bruising but nimble piece of warped psychedelic pop; second track "Street Flash" is a more extended meditation, prosaic but equally fervid. (If you were forced to pin the group down to two basic modes of operation, these two tracks would be excellent examples.) Both of them show AC at the peak of their powers of songwriting and production.
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| 01. |  |
Water Curses |
3:25 |  |
| 02. | |
Street Flash |
6:48 | |
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Cobwebs |
4:14 | |
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Seal Eyeing |
3:38 | |
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Credits
- Joe Lambert - Mastering // Scott Colburn - Engineer // Nicolas Vernhes - Mixing // Nicolas Vernhes - Tracking // Avey Tare - Artwork // Rob Carmichael - Design
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