Blog: End Hits

Animal Collective's Strawberry Jam was the record of 2007. It cemented the group as one of the most original, exciting, forward-thinking of this sleek, sleepy and often sterile new era. Somehow the foursome made heavy electronics organic. Jam is a compact sun full of pretty, poppy, danceable, shouting chaos, complete with profound subversives. Each Animal Collective full-length has been followed a companion EP. Water Curses contains four tracks from the Strawberry sessions that cohesively make up their own thing. More mellow and expansive than the taut, [...]