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| genre =| length = 27:23Domino Recording Company>Domino| producer = Ben H. Allen| prev_title = Animal Crack Box| prev_year = 2009| next_title = ODDSAC| next_year = 2010}}Fall Be Kind is the fourth EP by American experimental pop band Animal Collective. It was released digitally in MP3 and WAV formats on November 23, 2009, and as both a CD and LP in the United Kingdom on December 14, 2009 and in the United States on December 15, 2009. Some stores in Australia and New Zealand began selling it more than a week earlier, due to the band’s touring presence there at the time.On November 18, 2009, Domino Records accidentally sent pre-ordered CDs of Fall Be Kind to customers before the actual release date, resulting in a lossless digital version leaking, in its entirety, onto the internet.Recorded by Ben H. Allen at Sweet Tea in Oxford in February 2008 and at Mission Sound in Brooklyn in August 2009, Fall Be Kind includes live favorites “Graze” and “What Would I Want? Sky”. The latter track contains a sample of “Unbroken Chain” by the Grateful Dead, the first ever licensed sample of a Grateful Dead recording.WEB,pitchfork.com/news/35966-animal-collective-license-first-legal-grateful-dead-sample-ever/, Animal Collective License First Legal Grateful Dead Sample Ever, Pitchfork (website), Pitchfork, July 17, 2009, December 3, 2009, Amy, Phillips, The cover depicts a statue photographed through a brown paper bag attached to the camera lens.{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}}

Critical reception

{{Album ratingsPUBLISHER=ANYDECENTMUSIC?, February 21, 2020, PUBLISHER=METACRITIC, February 15, 2012, |rev1 = AllMusic4PUBLISHER=ALLMUSIC FIRST=JOHN, Bush, |rev2 = The A.V. ClubWORK=THE A.V. CLUB ACCESSDATE=FEBRUARY 21, 2020 LAST=HYDEN, Steven Hyden, |rev3 = Entertainment WeeklyMAGAZINE=ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY ACCESSDATE=FEBRUARY 21, 2020 LAST=MAERZ, |rev4 = Financial Times4NEWSPAPER=FINANCIAL TIMES ACCESSDATE=FEBRUARY 21, 2020 LAST=HUNTER-TILNEY, subscription, |rev5 = The Independent4NEWSPAPER=THE INDEPENDENT ACCESSDATE=FEBRUARY 21, 2020 LAST=GILL ARCHIVEDATE=DECEMBER 7, 2009, dead, |rev6 = Los Angeles Times3NEWSPAPER=LOS ANGELES TIMES ACCESSDATE=FEBRUARY 21, 2020 LAST=WAPPLER, |rev7 = NMEMAGAZINE=NME ACCESSDATE=FEBRUARY 21, 2020 LAST=KHARAS ARCHIVEDATE=DECEMBER 16, 2014, dead, Pitchfork (website)>PitchforkWORK=PITCHFORK (WEBSITE) >DATE=NOVEMBER 25, 2009 FIRST=MARK, Richardson, |rev9 = Rolling Stone3MAGAZINE=ROLLING STONE ACCESSDATE=FEBRUARY 21, 2020 LAST=ROSEN, Jody Rosen, Spin (magazine)>SpinMAGAZINE=SPIN (MAGAZINE) >DATE=DECEMBER 9, 2009 FIRST=SPENCER ARCHIVEURL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20121104114932/HTTP://WWW.SPIN.COM/REVIEWS/ANIMAL-COLLECTIVE-FALL-BE-KIND-DOMINO URL-STATUS=DEAD, }}Fall Be Kind was met with generally favorable reviews by critics. At Metacritic, the album received an average score of 84, based on 21 reviews, which indicates “universal acclaim”. Lewis P. from Sputnikmusic claimed “it had the impossible task of following up one of the most hyped albums of this decade and yet it barely breaks a sweat.” He went on to give a perfect rating.WEB,www.sputnikmusic.com/review/33599/Animal-Collective-Fall-Be-Kind/, Review: Fall Be Kind, Sputnik Music, 23 November 2009, 5 October 2014, Lewis P.,

Track listing

{{tracklist| total_length = 27:23| title1 = Graze| length1 = 5:23| title2 = What Would I Want? Sky| length2 = 6:46| title3 = Bleed| length3 = 3:28| title4 = On a Highway| length4 = 4:36| title5 = I Think I Can| length5 = 7:10}}Sample credits

• “Graze” incorporates elements of “Ardeleana”, arranged and performed by Gheorghe Zamfir.
• “What Would I Want? Sky” features samples of “Unbroken Chain”, written by Phil Lesh and Robert Petersen and performed by the Grateful Dead.

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.AV MEDIA NOTES, Fall Be Kind, 2009, Domino Recording Company, Animal Collective, liner notes, RUG341CD, Animal Collective

• Avey Tare
• Geologist
• Panda Bear

Additional personnel

• Ben Allen – mixing, recording
• Animal Collective – mixing
• Rob Carmichael – design and layout
• Aaron Ersoy – recording assistance
• Andy Marcinkowski – recording assistance
• Heather McIntosh – cello on “Graze” and “Bleed”

References

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External links

• Animal Collective’s Avey Tare Reveals All About New EP, Film, Tour Hiatus
• New Animal Collective EP

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