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- Brash menagerie
“When we’re making a new record, we always think we’re going to have this backlash because it sounds different [from our last one],” says Animal Collective’s Dave Portner (a/k/a Avey Tare) when I reach him at his Brooklyn apartment.
- Paw tracking
The collective discography of Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Geologist, and Deakin includes material recorded by different permutations under various names, live albums, solo projects, side projects, and collaborations.
- Three out of four ain't good
But that wasn’t enough to offset the incessant, atonal rave-like loops that just kept coming in wave after abrasive wave.
- Slow grow
The great-great-great grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson rocks out. Grizzly Bear, "On a Neck, On a Spit" (mp3)
- Accepting rejection
In July 1999, British hipster journal Sleazenation published a short article on the "Stormer Youth."
- Busy busy
“If you pulled the cord and the chute didn’t open, how would you dance on the way down?”
- Antic Digression Disorder
The Fiery Furnaces don’t make things easy on themselves.
- Locked and loaded
Okay, this is getting ridiculous. It’s already been a strong year for games, with four — four ! — game-of-the-year contenders before Labor Day.
- Live and kicking
Yes, we suffer from an embarrassment of riches when it come to live music here in the Boston area.
- Animal Collective
They may call each other Panda Bear and Geologist, but these boys can kick out the wibbly-wobbly jams.
- Digital creatures
You gotta be careful out there, downloaders.
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