Water Curses

Water Curses EP follows on from Animal Collective's massive 2007 success, Strawberry Jam. All four tracks have a more stripped down feel, but each one is more imaginative than the last in its ability to rip apart the conventional textbook.

Animal Collective have followed each of their last three albums with a short companion EP closely related to its predecessor. Right on schedule, here's Water Curses, containing three tracks from the Strawberry Jam sessions and another recorded at Brooklyn's Rare Book Room studio.

Since the start of their rise to the top of the art-rock underground, the beatific chums in Animal Collective have warbled, wheezed, whinged, and wowed—all in alternating currents that make each album and EP sound like a relic from an age they've already consigned to the past. It's made for an admirable custom of…

The New York City-based band Animal Collective have always retained a certain affinity towards watery aural theatrics since their inception in the the Baltimore noise scene. The title song on their companion EP to last year's sticky masterpiece,…