Avey Tare has brought in his Animal Collective bandmate Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear) for a new single, “Vampire Tongues.”
Over a swinging, undulating beat, the Tare-Bear combo offsets busy synths, strange dissonance, and drum machines with moments of melodic clarity. It's definitely reminiscent of their joint work with Animal Collective, while still being as experimental as ever: the song's stop-bridge is haunting, tense and mood-altering, and they repeat that same feeling every time they change keys. in the progressive chorus. stream “Vampire Tongues” below.
“Right now, the basic process of making music is more important to me than any outcome,” Dave Portner (Avey Tare) said in a press release. “It is a learning process. Collaboration is as much about learning from someone as it is about creating something with someone. There is a nice element of surprise. I wonder what this person is going to do with this idea? Where will this song go when someone else guides the ship? I'm doing the research. Here I am trying to learn something from my old friend Noah.”
Avey Tare's most recent solo album, 7's release in January 2023. Revisit our edition of Crate Digging with Avey Tare, where the musician delves into 10 essential pop albums every music fan should own.
Meanwhile, Animal Collective's last effort was 2023. Isn't it like that now?. They are also reissuing their seminal 2009 album. Merriweather Publications Pavilion on vinyl for its 15th anniversary.
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