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Prospect Hummer (EP) (Digipak) (CD)

By: Animal Collective (Artist) and Vashti Bunyan (Artist)

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Vashti Bunyan Artist Snapshot:

In 1970, British folksinger Vashti Bunyan released her debut album, ANOTHER DIAMOND DAY. She then abandoned the music business for over four decades until she was rediscovered in the early 2000s and championed by a host of young singer-songwriters dubbed "freak folks," chief among them the enigmatic Devendra Banhart. Triumphantly, Bunyan returned to the studio a full 35 years after her debut to record what was only the second album of her career, LOOKAFTERING. A darling of the musical hip in the new millennium, Bunyan also collaborated with the psych-folk ensemble Animal Collective on their 2005 EP, PROSPECT HUMMER.

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DISC 1 for Prospect Hummer (EP) (Digipak) (CD) Album By Animal Collective (Artist) and...
1   It's You
2   Prospect Hummer
3   Baleen Sample
4   I Remember Learning How To Dive
 

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Review

Spin (p.108) - "This EP dresses Bunyan's spider-web-soft utterances with Animal Collective's rhythmic harmonies and untethered acoustic strums." -- Grade: B+
The Wire (p.51) - "PROSPECT HUMMER is as beautiful yet insubstantial as origami....The songs fall together and apart as you listen, their transience making them all the more poignant."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.105) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[A]n EP-long excursion into summer-kissed bliss."

Title Note

Recording information: 2005.

The amount of critical praise Animal Collective received for 2004's SUNG TONGS promised this 2005 release a good deal of attention. That attention was well deserved. Though only a four-song EP, PROSPECT HUMMER finds the experimental-acoustic outfit continuing to explore and refine their primal psychedelia via acoustic guitars, layered vocals, and a swirling wash of auxiliary instruments in a way that challenges, mesmerizes, and enchants. Yet the distinguishing feature of the EP is the presence of British folk chanteuse Vashti Bunyan.

Bunyan has become something of an underground cult figure since the release of her only full-length album, 1970's JUST ANOTHER DIAMOND DAY. Fans of that album (long out of print until it was issued on CD in 2000) will find that Bunyan's delicate, evocative voice sounds much the same here. In fact, three of PROSPECT HUMMER's tunes highlight Bunyan's wispy singing by framing it with back-ups from the Collective (on the lilting verses of "I Remember Learning How to Dive," for example). The fourth track, "Baleen Sample," is a drone-like instrumental that evinces the beach on a windy day. With this short, delicious recording, Animal Collective has again staked their claim as one of the most unique acts in modern folk.

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