Upon receiving his complimentary tray of food, he opened up the packet of strawberry jam that had been provided for the bread. The name Strawberry Jam came from singer and drummer Panda Bear as he and the band were on a plane headed to Greece for a show.
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For us it's not always about just writing a good song - we wanna play with your ears in terms of colours and space with sound. Music should be more than just something to stomp to - it should be more interactive. But it always comes back down to the chorus, which is about having an obsession with the past, which is something I'm not into in terms of culture. I'm just blending together visual images from different places. "Safer" was eventually released as the B-side of the album's first single, "Peacebone", while "Street Flash" and other studio leftovers appeared on the 2008 EP Water Curses.Ībout the content of "Peacebone", Portner said in an interview with BBC: Regarding the songs' absences, singer and guitarist Avey Tare/David Portner wrote to fans that the band recorded studio versions for both, but decided against including them on the album, "partially due to their length". Two songs that had been played extensively on the band's 2005–2006 concerts, "Safer" and "Street Flash", were not included on Strawberry Jam. According to the interview, the majority of the album's songs were played on the band's live shows from 2005 to 2006, but that there would be, "nonetheless, a few new ones that we've never played live." In a pre-release interview with Billboard, guitarist Deakin/Josh Dibb described the new album as "chiseled" and "shiver-inducing". The title and track listing were revealed by band member Geologist on the Collected Animals message board on May 16, 2007. Problems playing this file? See media help. According to member Noah Lennox, it was a conscious decision to record the album "in a desert setting." Album content Moreover, Strawberry Jam engineer Scott Colburn, who also worked with the band to record the predecessor Feels, knew Wave Lab's owner.
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that might not make sense to anyone but us." They finally settled on Tucson, where Weitz had previously lived. Band member Brian Weitz explained why they chose this location on the Collected Animals message board : "dave and i were talking a few months back about environments to record and one of us was like maybe it'd be sweet to make this next one a desert record and then everyone was like yeah man we haven't done that yet and it seems like it could fit the songs and the way we want them to sound. The album was recorded at Wave Lab Studios in Tucson, Arizona. 7.1 Animal Collective/"Strawberry Band".