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, shaking jello of Jam, “Water” is an apt descriptor—the feeling is fluid, refreshing and enveloping (and shit, there are sounds of actual water all over the EP).

After the bouncy, single-worthy title-track, the EP relaxes into a soft stream. It’s warm and welcoming, but short on profane amazement so often bursting from Strawberry Jam. The two works, created in the same session, are split perfectly—each with an overriding aesthetic. Water Curses is like a fine mist—if Jam is the waterfall, Curses is the spray and drift after the crash.

Listen: “Water Curses”