Avey Tare
Avey Tare (born David Portner on April 24th, 1979) is a musician and founding member of Animal Collective.
Avey Tare met Animal Collective's Deakin (Josh Dibb), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), and Geologist (Brian Weitz) in high school. For years, the four of them swapped homemade recordings, shared musical ideas and performed in different group configurations. Avey Tare recorded the Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished album with Panda Bear, and initially released the recording on the band's own Animal label in 2000. Read Full BioAvey Tare (born David Portner on April 24th, 1979) is a musician and founding member of Animal Collective.
Avey Tare met Animal Collective's Deakin (Josh Dibb), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), and Geologist (Brian Weitz) in high school. For years, the four of them swapped homemade recordings, shared musical ideas and performed in different group configurations. Avey Tare recorded the Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished album with Panda Bear, and initially released the recording on the band's own Animal label in 2000.
After high school, Avey Tare and Geologist moved to New York City to attend NYU and Columbia University, respectively. Panda Bear and Deakin had eventually moved to NYC, and the band started to become more collaborative in nature. They finally settled on the name "Animal Collective".
Avery Tare released his first proper solo album, Down There, on October 25, 2010. Eucalyptus followed in July 2017, with the Essence of Eucalyptus EP, featuring remixes from various Animal Collective members, coming the year after. March 2019 brought Cows on Hourglass Pond, his most recent solo venture to date.
Avey Tare's other projects and releases include Terrestrial Tones with Eric Copeland of Black Dice, a split 12" with David Grubbs, an LP with his exwife (ex-Múm) Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir (aka Kría Brekkan) called Pullhair Rubeye, and Avery Tare’s Slasher Flicks with ex-Dirty Projectors member Angel Deradoorian and ex-Ponytail drummer Jeremy Hyman.
Avey Tare met Animal Collective's Deakin (Josh Dibb), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), and Geologist (Brian Weitz) in high school. For years, the four of them swapped homemade recordings, shared musical ideas and performed in different group configurations. Avey Tare recorded the Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished album with Panda Bear, and initially released the recording on the band's own Animal label in 2000. Read Full BioAvey Tare (born David Portner on April 24th, 1979) is a musician and founding member of Animal Collective.
Avey Tare met Animal Collective's Deakin (Josh Dibb), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), and Geologist (Brian Weitz) in high school. For years, the four of them swapped homemade recordings, shared musical ideas and performed in different group configurations. Avey Tare recorded the Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished album with Panda Bear, and initially released the recording on the band's own Animal label in 2000.
After high school, Avey Tare and Geologist moved to New York City to attend NYU and Columbia University, respectively. Panda Bear and Deakin had eventually moved to NYC, and the band started to become more collaborative in nature. They finally settled on the name "Animal Collective".
Avery Tare released his first proper solo album, Down There, on October 25, 2010. Eucalyptus followed in July 2017, with the Essence of Eucalyptus EP, featuring remixes from various Animal Collective members, coming the year after. March 2019 brought Cows on Hourglass Pond, his most recent solo venture to date.
Avey Tare's other projects and releases include Terrestrial Tones with Eric Copeland of Black Dice, a split 12" with David Grubbs, an LP with his exwife (ex-Múm) Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir (aka Kría Brekkan) called Pullhair Rubeye, and Avery Tare’s Slasher Flicks with ex-Dirty Projectors member Angel Deradoorian and ex-Ponytail drummer Jeremy Hyman.
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Crumbling Land
Avey Tare Lyrics
If the prop that you stick is licking the house
Then don't be disturbed by his eyes
I expose his front teeth to find out what he eats
And now he is starting to change
Oh he's wearing his virility, battle the hub, looking
Ready and willing to fight
Any waiting to speak will do,
Were-you's wary, weighing his waiting and stand
He will eat you for meat, your body weight helps
Then chomp on his chompers at night
Or the ugliness split and thrive underneath
It's changing the face that he has
Will they tell you a (riddle) to burn (underneath),
But I know America's smite
Hear the dominant creatures unite at last
And waste in a crumbling land
Feelin' like a werewolf(5x)
Contributed by Dominic E. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
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avedic
Noah writes beautiful melodies. but Avey is way more improvisationally creative. All his stuff sounds so chaotic and almost evil...but in a fun way? Bad way to word it...but those sorts of sounds usually are. His music, visually, reminds me of paintings by Rousseau. I love Down There....the first few times I heard it, I hated it. Listening to it now, I cannot fathom why. It's brilliant...every second of it.
BOBALOO919
iM FeEliNG LIKe A WEReWOlF !
birdablaze
I want to hear a geologist solo.
dav
@twostepsteezy A V tare Davey minus the D and tare as in tear as in tear a piece of paper
Dylan Goodwin
Oh shit I haven't heard this in a few years! How I've missed it!
javier alzate
mathwe dont say that please, its good that only the people that understand listen to ddavid, he is a beuty anyway, he is beutifull so lets just be with him, and make partys that iare all of us siting around the floor i dont know, it sounds like something that would be sweet for david
Jeremiah Gloria
@willlliw it's coming out 10/26 via Paw Tracks this year titles "Down There"
Austin Mijares
@willlliw he is! coming out sometime in october hopefully. its called "Down Under" or something. cant fucking wait.
preyaswolves
WHOA this is kick ass!
Austin Mijares
@aesrp Actually yeah, just listened to it, it was up on pitchfork. it left me wanting more, so i guess ill have to wait for the whole album haha. LESS THAN A MONTH.