Anyone else into the new album by Animal Collective’s Avery Tare? It continues the trend of my liking the solo projects more than the band and it’s also very left field from what you’d expect after Merryweather, as dark and depressed as MP is bright and happy. Anyone else?
I’m not really hearing what critics are hearing with it being darker than most AC output, but going into it with the motif with the crocodile skull and songtitles in mind, I’m starting to understand. The first song reminds me a lot of “Decades” by Joy Division with its accordian but with crossover Panda Bear/Beach Boys influence. This definitely sounds like an album to sleep on.
I haven’t heard it yet but it did get album of the month in Piccadilly Records Indie section…
Here’s their lowdown…
CAT NUMBER: PAW035LP RELEASE DATE: 1 Nov '10
Darryl says: For those of you missing your Animal Collective fix, look no further than Avey Tare AKA Dave Portner of Animal Collective. His debut solo album is awash with the more avant aspects of AC, but still retains a melodic vocal strain too. Recommended!
ABOUT THIS ITEM
“Down There” is a world of nine new songs from Animal Collective’s Avey Tare. His first official solo full length carries you through a murky world of sound, an alien death world of soul grooves that is both honest and otherworldly. Wait for sundown and turn it up loud.
Take a ride on this haunted boat and let yourself be guided through deep sloshy rhythms, waterlogged bass, and moonlit breaks in the canopy that reveal a crisp crystalline pop buzz. “Down There” was recorded in the month of June by old friend Josh Dibb (Deakin) at the Good House, an old church in upstate New York, surrounded by The Great Swamp and visited regularly by monks, white widows, and groan toads.
Dave Portner AKA Avey Tare was born in Baltimore County, Maryland on April 24th in the year of 1979. He moved to New York City in 1997 where he resides to this day (in south Brooklyn). Though he spends most of his time writing songs and producing sounds (usually in the group Animal Collective) he also is an intense record collector, film fanatic, book head, friend, and traveller. It’s from these things primarily that Mr. Portner gets his inspiration, still striving to blend sounds and discover musical territory that seems unfamiliar. His favourite animals are the otter and crocodile. The later has played a big role in his newest record."
TRACK LISTING
- Laughing Hieroglyphic
- 3 Umbrellas
- Oliver Twist
- Glass Bottom Boat
- Ghost Of Books
- Cemeteries
- Heads Hammock
- Heather In The Hospital
- Lucky 1