The obvious: global warming, rising sea levels, I guess a real 'water curse'.
There is some sense of the immediacy of the problem ('no time for a photo') but they ultimately embrace returning to the swirl, like how in 'Water Curses' he sings of wanting to be water.
A thematic thing; they always seem to be closer than animals and nature than to human intentions (in Peacebone: "I'm a corpse, I'm not a fisherman" when a bunch of dead fish rise to the surface). Duh, I know, they're 'Animal Collective'.
The obvious: global warming, rising sea levels, I guess a real 'water curse'.
There is some sense of the immediacy of the problem ('no time for a photo') but they ultimately embrace returning to the swirl, like how in 'Water Curses' he sings of wanting to be water.
A thematic thing; they always seem to be closer than animals and nature than to human intentions (in Peacebone: "I'm a corpse, I'm not a fisherman" when a bunch of dead fish rise to the surface). Duh, I know, they're 'Animal Collective'.