Animal Collective EP and tour

Animal Collective return with explorations of strange new depths of life affirming weirdness in their new Water Curses EP released on May 5th on 12" and CD.

All four tracks have a more stripped down feel than their recent work on Strawbery 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.

Animal Collective return to tour Europe in May book-ended by festival appearances starting at the Explosions in the Sky curated ATP in Minehead on the 18th May and ending in style at Primavera in Barcelona on the 31st May and playing UK shows in Glasgow and Leeds and play London's Koko on Thursday 22nd May inbetween.

The full May tour will call at:

Sun 18-May-08 UK Minehead ATP (Explosions In The Sky)
Mon 19-May-08 UK Dublin Tripod
Tue 20-May-08 UK Glasgow Oran Mor
Wed 21-May-08 UK Leeds Brudenell Room
Thu 22-May-08 UK London Koko