It can be an uncomfortable listen, the song masterfully putting you in the positions of both the narrator and the person he’s addressing, leaving you to wonder what you would do in either’s shoes. Sarah Balliet’s mournful cello then winds its way in, amplifying the pathos as Turla assumes the guise of a terminally ill man pleading for a merciful death. Opening with the fleeting organ notes of a church hymnal, it’s soon augmented by Adam Turla’s dusty baritone and a strummed guitar seeming to emanate from a southwestern desert. Nathan Stevens 88. Murder By Death – “Send Me Home”Īs with many of Murder By Death’s numbers, “Send Me Home” unfurls with a rich, cinematic ambience. The effects are subtle, but by the time a shimmering hi-hat comes in over a trap like snare at the halfway mark, it feels like Shigeto sliced two songs together perfectly. It also absolutely deserves the seven minute run time as Shigeto adds layer after layer. Those clear and clanking chimes hold down the song wonderfully, grounding it when the track could so easily dissipate into mist. Thanks to the stuttering vocal sample and the eerie keyboards floating around in the background, it’s easy to get lost in the haze.
Shigeto’s percussion heavy production has never sounded this atmospheric. No bother though, this track and accompanying EP are killer, Panda Bear’s most solid release since Person Pitch. The other four tracks on the EP are all very good, begging the question, Why didn’t we get to hear these on Grim Reaper? The four new originals are easily better than tracks like “Lonely Wanderer” or “Tropic of Cancer”, which I though weighed down what was already a pretty hazy slog of an album. “No Mans Land” is one of the standouts, sound like Paul Simon on salvia singing over some nasty techno riff.
There was Grass, Water Curses (still my favorite Animal Collective release), Fall Be Kind and now Panda Bear’s got his own EP Crosswords, which does more than enough to continue the streak of quality extended players. For whatever reason, Animal Collective always deliver really solid EPs.
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