Cows on hourglass pond

"Avey Tare delivers a baroque pop masterclass on new LP ... Recorded with the assistance of an `80s-era Tascam tape machine, Cows On Hourglass Pond finds the Animal Collective member retreating into sun-dappled pastoral simplicity; a hazy ode to bucolic road trips through the American backcountry that sees experimental fervour tempered with low-key placidity".

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"For much of the decade that followed Animal Collective's 2009 masterstroke Merriweather Post Pavilion, output from the group and its members splintered in several different directions. Animal Collective themselves continued along their never-linear trajectory with strange and spazzy albums that could be claustrophobic or spacious. Dave Portner, known under his stage name Avey Tare, went in various directions with his solo work as well ... Cows on Hourglass Pond is an uncluttered and beautifully direct reading of Portner's always-opaque songwriting. The best tracks are among his strongest and the entire record finds Portner opening up the gates of noise and abstraction that can cloud his productions just enough for listeners to get a better look at his mysterious but friendly world as it evolves".

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