Animal Collective - Water Curses
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Release date: 06 May 2008
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Animal Collective - Water Curses: Wikipedia Album Entry
Water Curses is an EP by Animal Collective released in May 2008 on compact disc. 12" vinyl format was released on June 3. The first three tracks were recorded during the band's Strawberry Jam sessions in January 2007 and were produced by Scott Colburn. The EP's fourth and final track, "Seal Eyeing", was recorded at Nicholas Vernhes' Rare Book Room Studio in Brooklyn, New York. Vernhes was also charged with the mixing duties for all four tracks. According to a press release issued by the band, Water Curses "find(s) Animal Collective exploring strange new waters."
According to a post on the Domino Records website:
"All four tracks have a more stripped down feel than their recent work on Strawberry Jam. Opener 'Water Curses' mixes mixing carousel and calypso throwing unexpected rhythm up, down and sideways to produce the sound of a smile. And 'Street Flash' is nearly seven minutes of spaced out hollers, electronics and lullabies that sounds like it's made of honey. 'Cobwebs' is equally languid. Weaving itself around a defiant vocal mantra "I’m not going underground" and boosters of Gospel organ sounds like it's imagining some new kind of space church for Al Green to conduct weddings until it slowly fades away into a sticky ether. The EP's final track takes the celestial feel into even more blissed-out states. 'Seal Eyeing' is the moment you realise watching vapour trails melt into the sky is not only the most constructive thing you can do, but the only real option that’s left."
Purchase of the vinyl version comes with a MP3 and FLAC download.
The EP was leaked onto file sharing networks on March 12, 2008.
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Animal Collective - Water Curses Lyrics
Animal Collective - Water Curses Lyrics
To be the motion actor two broken strings attracted
To groom my face in life and doom
Hesitate to throw a coin in, a wish could be a bad thing
My mouth is just a mush of drool
Animal Collective - Street Flash Lyrics
does anyone in here get hit
with inside fever?
so bad sometimes it's hard
to move around
Animal Collective - Cobwebs Lyrics
With your head in a noose and a grape on a knife
Found you some breakfast or adventuring eye
You smell trouble, well, how should we get some sleep?
Animal Collective - Seal Eyeing Lyrics
Me, slowly walking going to see the seal
Swimming in the lake of melted ice
The minnows they are catching, must be good
They stay so long, entreat us to write
