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April 10, 2008

New Animal Collective - "Water Curses"

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At the end of February, we told you about Animal Collective's Water Curses EP, and showed you the band's creepy new pic. The fearsome foursome's currently streaming the EP's title track at MySpace, and it's a gurgling, uptempo jam. Remember the press release description we posted? To quote: "Opener 'Water Curses' takes an unexpected rhythm and throws it up, down and sideways to produce the sound of a smile..." Kind of an embarrassing description, but, well ... kinda.

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underwhelmed

Posted by: lolo at 04/10/08 10:44 AM  | Reply
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the best song of 2008 thus far, clearly

Posted by: hmmmm at 04/10/08 10:58 AM  | Reply
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meh

Posted by: nlp at 04/10/08 12:17 PM  | Reply
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i love me some animal collective but i was bored after 20 seconds with this...more repetitive than fireworks even

Posted by: EnchantingWizardofRhythm at 04/10/08 1:15 PM  | Reply
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but fireworks was awesome

Posted by: matt at 04/10/08 1:20 PM  | Reply
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this song is awesome and fireworks is up there with winters love and the purple bottle as like the best thing they've ever done. yeesh

Posted by: Brent at 04/10/08 1:31 PM  | Reply
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well i think leaf house, grass, and fickle cycle are some of their best...the only good part about fireworks is that piano part in the middle

Posted by: EnchantingWizardofRhythm at 04/10/08 2:25 PM  | Reply
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fickle cycle is indeed one of their best, but fireworks is fucking amazing. water curses is really greattttt too.

Posted by: oh yeah at 04/10/08 2:51 PM  | Reply
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Really bad EP

I hope this Animal Collective fad ends soon, a 4.3 from Pitchfork should do it.

Posted by: Les at 04/10/08 5:57 PM  | Reply
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I think this is awfully pretty. And I fucking hate Animal Collective.

Posted by: Erin at 04/10/08 6:25 PM  | Reply
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it's nice but really it's just more of the same shit.

Posted by: happy gilmore at 04/10/08 10:41 PM  | Reply
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This is one of only three Animal Collective songs I've ever enjoyed listening to.

Posted by: Chris S. at 04/11/08 3:34 AM  | Reply
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This is amazing. The video is webcasting on Pitchfork TV. It is the second best song of the year - the best one is Street Flash.

Posted by: JPC at 04/14/08 1:05 PM  | Reply
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I have NO IDEA how you could dislike the song. It's absolutely bliss. The other three songs... kinda boring, but that's why they're on an EP, after all.

Posted by: Gary Sheffield at 04/14/08 11:32 PM  | Reply
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