Enter the Slasher House

rollingstone

pitchfork

To date, Dave "Avey Tare" Portner’s projects outside of Animal Collective have leaned toward the intensely introspective. His new band, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, resemble Animal Collective in stripped-down, garage-band, power-trio formation: not quite as densely textured and sonically adventurous, but more than capable of generating the same sense of euphoric abandon.

fantano

While this new Avey Tare record has some sweet melodies on it, nearly every piece of instrumentation on this thing is burnt to a crisp with effects.