This release from Animal Collective features the pure and sweet vocals of Vashti Bunyan who released the a classic neo-folk LP Just Another Diamond Day in the 1970's - This is the first material she has released since then, and it's out there. Fragments of songs develop and dissolve. It's like the Wicker Man soundtrack remixed round a campfire byKid606.

The EP's sound is that of spooky folk. Unusual instrumentation pitched against Bunyan's crystalline vocal lines. The lead track It's You is a rush of cascading harp strums and loose piano notes. Bunyan's almost wordless vocals recall Portishead's Beth Gibbons on her Out Of Season LP. Prospect Hummer is built around an insistent acoustic guitar riff, single snare beat and a stumbling lush vocal only chorus. Baleen Sample locates the missing ground between Four Tet and the Incredible String Band.

A heavily treated sample glides through the heady haze of warped acoustics like pollen on a summer breeze. A ticking metronome upfront in the mix provides the rhythm track for the final track Learning How To Dive. The clicks mesh well with the light vocal flourishes. The song twists and turns itself, notes disappearing, chords fracturing, melodies closing in on themselves. It's a kind of folky auto funk with missing drum beats.