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- Summary: This is the reissue of Animal Collective's 2003 five-track album.
- Record Label: Paw Tracks
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Positive: 5 out of 12
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Mixed: 7 out of 12
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Negative: 0 out of 12
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The resulting album comes across, for the most part, as a peaceful, relaxing—if extremely weird—trip through a newfound musical slipstream.
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This release was unusual for the band in that it was accompanied with the lyrics in the liner notes, however, so the words that are sung, muttered, chanted and whispered are available if needed, on this most beguiling, dream-like and ultimately just-out-of-reach release.
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Beyond its canonical interest, Campfire Songs has its own charms. Though rigorously composed, it feels deceptively spontaneous. The atmosphere is both inviting and severe, and startlingly vivid.
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MojoThe strung-out meanderings of Doggy or De Soto De Son veer equally toward indulgent and the cosmic. [Feb 2010, p.112]
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The five tracks on this 42-minute LP were conceived not as bonfire singalongs but as music that might mystically emanate from the crackling blaze itself. It works.
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UncutLong stretches of listless strumming may test your patience, but the reward is the gorgeous psychedelic folk reverie of 11-minute closer "Do Soto De Son," as hypnotically lovely as anything that they've laid down since. [Feb 2010, p.79]
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Under The RadarIt was recorded live on a porch in Maryland, and which only serves to remind listeners how frustrating the band can be. Of course, the flip side of this is how far they've come. [Holiday 2009, p.80]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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