Animal Collective - Water Curses EP

Hurry hurry, I am in a hurry to write this one, so I still remember everything to write about The Magnetic Fields show that I saw tonight (no pictures, sorry; I really hate toting a camera around). I also have no official album art for this one; my hope is that in trolling the Info SuperHwy to take down leaked copies, A Tare, P Bear, D Kin, and/or G Ologist will stumble upon my humble illustration and use it for their album art. Since this is an EP, let's do something exciting and run through it track-by-track.

Water Curses: What an exciting title track! The voices are very soft, and the guitar strumming is a lovely percussive effect that's like whooshwhooshwhoosh whooshwhooshwhoosh, so there's this constant 1-2-3 1-2-3 going on that's very bubbly, and there're always nice sounds going on.

Street Flash: Too much vocals in this too-long song. The music has these fun sweeping and echoing parts going on, but it feels repetitive because either a) there is not enough going on or b) it is repetitive. Around the middle some light screaming happens and that is pretty good because it is less vocal-y and more getting-washed-out-in-the-sea-y. Then things go back to the way they were before and finishes fizzling out to end.

Cobwebs: Amid some jets overhead or missiles taking off or some sort of sound barrier-breaking whistling, the song starts off innocently enough. Once we've established that "we're not going underground" however, we achieve the acceptable part of repetition -- mantra chanting! Anyway, the song changes soon enough into Panda ocean hollaback girl choir hollabacking Preacher Avey preaching and some blipblipblips.

Seal Eyeing: More underwater ocean bubbling beneath some cautious piano chords, but again, nothing really happens until halfway through the song where maybe we surface onto this sunny tropical island and then the piano chords sorta drift off before waking up to drift off again like the head nodding struggle to stay awake while bathed in warmth that makes for a quaint ending to a blandish song.