New Music: Avey Tare: "I'm Your Eagle Kisser" [Stream]
Who knew there was a little supergroup lurking inside Animal Collective? Last week we fawned over Panda Bear's Person Pitch, along with the rest of the independent music community, but this new recording from bandmate Avey Tare proves similarly stunning-- the other piece of the Animal Collective puzzle missing from Panda Bear's gold-hued, experimental pop.
Culled from an upcoming compilation on the newly formed Rare Book Room Records (and not from Tare's upcoming full-length collaboration with Kria Brekken), "I'm Your Eagle Kisser" unfurls in different directions. A hollow steel-string drone fades up and then out before Tare's vocals enter beneath a one-handed ragtime piano. The lyrics meander as his voice oscillates between exhaustion and shrill frustration. Eventually, some strummed acoustic guitar enters-- but Tare's voice is so entrancing in its seemingly arbitrary moods swings that it's difficult to focus on anything else.
[from the forthcoming RBR 001 compilation; due this spring on Rare Book Room Records]