Animal Collective - Water Curses
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Artist: Animal CollectiveEdition: Music CD
Format: EP, Single
CD Release Date: 2008-05-06
Music Label: Paradise Recordings
Soundtracks:
- Water Curses
- Street Flash
- Cobwebs
- Seal Eyeing
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Free Music Review: Emotions
Hit: 5 Stars
I digested three of Animal Collective's EPs all at once, (Peacebone, People & Water Curses) having grown not bored but tired with all of their albums. I was surprised to find that arguably some of their strongest material shows up on People and Water Curses. It seems logical to expect that tracks that fail to make it on the album are weaker than the rest, but they maintain incredible range and creativity in these extra songs.
Water Curses is nearly 20 minutes of sound effects and synthesizers that run the gambit of human emotion, from unbridled joy to nocturnal alienation and everything in between. Their strong suit has always been their incredible ear for melody and Water Curses has this in spades. Avey's singing accelerates, escalates, darts between playful and adamant and explodes forth only to slowly pull back like a low tide.
After I got over my initial habit of listening to Water Curses 12 times in a row and calling it a day (haha), I found that I actually prefer the whimsical circular conversation that takes place in Street Flash ("I'm so sorry I came in late this evening, but all the clocks around the town had died and all the fruit store's colors were so bright, with couples smiling, cooking things tonight. And what were all those troubles on my mind?"). Street Flash and the clicking metronome and eventual refrain of Cobwebs bursting forth like a Hallelujah choir are the strong points of this little collection.
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Features four previously unreleased tracks; two are from the Wavelab Studio sessions that produced the critically acclaimed album "Strawberry Jam." All tracks show the band propelling forward on their mad genius trajectory. Look for them playing Coachella in April, the Pitchfork Festival in July, and All Points West in August.Rather than listening for the first cuckoo you can herald the arrival of spring with the 2008 album, Animal Collective's EP, Water Curses which is the first Animal Collective release since last year's tour de force Strawberry Jam. Water Curses sees the band's capacity for re-imaging their constituent parts into ever more interesting and saturated shapes go up by a giddy notch. All four tracks have a more stripped down feel than their recent work, opener "Water Curses" takes an unexpected rhythm and throws it up, down and sideways to produce the sound of a smile. A technique that Animal Collective are now in a position to call their own. Track titles are Water Curses, Street Flash, Cobwebs and Seal Eyeing.
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