- Record Label: Domino
- Release Date: Apr 8, 2014
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MojoApr 23, 2014The album's stand-outs come when they soften their stance. [May 2014, p.93]
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The WireApr 16, 2014There's a generous, sloppy fistful of day-glo power-pop in these songs. [Apr 2014, p.52]
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Apr 8, 2014The Slasher House is like going to one of those haunted cornfield mazes around Halloween time. As you sneak through the maze, things are a little scary, and you’re not always sure what will happen next. But it’s exciting, fun, and once you realize you obviously will make it out alive, you want to keep going back in.
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Apr 4, 2014Both musically and lyrically, the project cleaves to that kind of silly-spooky, funfair innocence, in a way that lends the album a freakish, cartoon unity denied to some of Tare’s previous projects.
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Apr 4, 2014This delight of an album might bend and warp reality, but it’s also a rare gem because underneath all of its trickery it still projects back a reflection of something completely grounded.
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Apr 3, 2014Even as the songs delve deeper into the funhouse, there’s almost always an earworm leading you out of the fog.
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Apr 2, 2014Enter The Slasher House is stylish, daring and captivating; spooky, but not scary.
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Apr 8, 2014Ultimately Enter The Slasher House excellently parallels the campy horror flicks and haunted houses that inspired the band’s name.
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Apr 7, 2014Overall Enter the Slasher House is perhaps too subtle to sit amongst the likes of the Cramps, Goblin and Zombie Zombie playing John Carpenter, on your future Halloween playlist.
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Apr 8, 2014Enter works best when it's not begging for an ENT.
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MagnetApr 18, 2014It's when things slow down that Tare and Co.'s melodic intentions (and intensity) gets a better, clearer outing without losing their daring noisiness. [No. 108, p.58]
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Apr 16, 2014The result is a strange paradox in typical Animal Collective style: a suite of songs that’s at times alien, other times sentimental; often cutesy, but a little too bristly to curl up with under a blanket.
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Apr 8, 2014While not as rewarding on multiple listens as anything the Collective has ever produced, Enter the Slasher House is the ideal detour between now and the band's next record.
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Apr 8, 2014These 11 songs feel like a natural extension of Animal Collective's sound and a welcome addition to the band's ever-evolving extracurricular catalog.
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Apr 7, 2014Buoyed by girlfriend and former Dirty Projector Angel Deradoorian and ex-Ponytail drummer Jeremy Hyman, Tare has plenty to bounce off of here.
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Apr 7, 2014This is one house of horrors that’s worth the ride.
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Apr 4, 2014It's overflowing with excitement, optimism, and overwhelming beauty that distract you just enough to disregard the sounds of rustling footsteps behind you growing closer.
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Apr 2, 2014Enjoyable, but some’ll always believe in it more than others.
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UncutApr 2, 2014Slasher House is not so different to the last Animal Collective album, 2012's bristly Centipede Hz. [May 2014, p.69]
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May 1, 2014A burbling psychedelic rain forest that harks back to the vintage wood nymph traditions that once defined the AnCo legacy.
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Apr 7, 2014The campy Scooby Doo spookiness that inspires Slasher Flicks’ aesthetic is so charming and irresistible that Enter the Slasher House regularly succeeds despite its faults.
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Apr 14, 2014Enter the Slasher House is a fairly successful recreation of the sheer joy experienced in the intentionally macabre. It's a little silly sometimes.
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Apr 17, 2014Fans of Animal Collective may enter the Slasher House and revel in Tare’s fun-sized treats, but others might be too disappointed by the tricks, remaining contented with the Haunted Graffiti next door.
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Q MagazineApr 23, 2014File under "trip-pop." [May 2014, p.105]
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Apr 8, 2014Each song is fried in a large vat of production grease and because everything is in such excess (the unfortunate mixing on the drums, the reverb, the extra blips and bloops that end up sounding like blahs), it’s an exhausting listen to get to the end.
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Apr 7, 2014The heights reached by the band members' day jobs are never scaled.
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Apr 4, 2014Enter The Slasher House sounds like a direct sequel to his swampy solo album, and wrongly marginalises the influences of his collaborators.
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Apr 4, 2014At times, Enter the Slasher House feels like a carbon copy of Animal Collective, replete with effects-soaked hazy vocals mashed against high-tempo art-pop.
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Apr 2, 2014A largely entertaining but occasionally baffling listen, Enter The Slasher House sadly falls just short of Animal Collective’s best work and Panda Bear’s stunning solo projects.
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Apr 10, 2014While the album is undoubtedly fun and includes a few absolute gems, this mismatch [twisted samples meant to indulge the horror intentions, but rarely entirely integrated into the music] makes Slasher House a middling success.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 21
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Mixed: 3 out of 21
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Negative: 0 out of 21
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