{"id":732,"date":"2010-04-07T10:09:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=732"},"modified":"2010-04-07T10:09:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:09:05","slug":"review-animal-collective-fall-be-kind-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/04\/07\/review-animal-collective-fall-be-kind-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Animal Collective &#8211; Fall Be Kind EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-733\" title=\"Animal_Collective_Fall_Be_Kind\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Animal_Collective_Fall_Be_Kind.jpg\" alt=\"Animal_Collective_Fall_Be_Kind\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/>On the tails of their coherent 2009 masterpiece Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective continues down their merry path of unbridled, joyful psych. Less abrasive than previous efforts, Fall Be Kind begins with a gentle swaying aural landscape created with teasing sounds and angelic lines like \u201cLet Light In\u201d before morphing into a silly, flute-heavy Putumayo-like folk tune. Their cheekiness continues with \u201cWhat Would I Want? Sky,\u201d a densely remixed sample of Grateful Dead\u2019s \u201cUnbroken Chain\u201d surrounded with majestic swirls and bleeps and rousing lyrics. \u201cOn a Highway\u201d sheds some of the instrumental layers focusing on the lyrics instead, while the final cut on the EP \u201cI Think I Can\u201d is both strange and wonderful\u2014thumping around with primal percussion work, Beach Boys choruses and celestial strings. (Domino, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myanimalhome.net\">www.myanimalhome.net<\/a>) <strong>Kent Davies<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the tails of their coherent 2009 masterpiece Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective continues down their merry path of unbridled, joyful psych. Less abrasive than previous efforts, Fall Be Kind begins with a gentle swaying aural landscape created with teasing sounds and angelic lines like \u201cLet Light In\u201d before morphing into a silly, flute-heavy Putumayo-like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-animal-collective"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}