Avey Tare - Down There

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4...according to our Brett on Thu 28 Oct, 2010.

I guess you've probably heard of The Animal Collectives. This guy's one of them and this is his solo debut. It's good, like their records usually are. And it sounds quite like The Animal Collectives, which their record's usually do. Much like Panda Bear's Person Pitch it's totally recognisable as being from their own particular camp, it's just that the focus is more on one particular aspect of what they do, fleshed out into something that works as a full LP. What seems a bit weird about it is that a lot of it sounds more like what everyone seemed to be expecting Panda Bear to do, ie taking the beats up a notch while bringing a little more experimentation to things. Some of it's got a clear techno influence, some sounds like fractured hip-hop, some sounds like the gloopy bounciness of recent Black Dice but it's all done expertly and constantly retains that trademark AC sound, largely brought by that singular vocal style which is still gonna fuck you off if it's always fucked you off but will provide comforting familiarity to those who can stomach it.

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* 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.

TRACKLIST:

1. Laughing Hieroglyphic 2. 3 Umbrellas 3. Oliver Twist 4. Glass Bottom Boat 5. Ghost Of Books 6.
Cemeteries 7. Heads Hammock 8. Heather In The Hospital 9. Lucky 1

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