Animal Collective’s Avey Tare Preps Dreamy New Album ‘7s’ & Shares Songs

Animal Collective member Avey Tare (Dave Portner) confirmed a new solo album, 7s, due out on February 17 via Domino. Portner previewed the new record with two tracks: “The Musical” and “Hey Bog.”

Avey Tare’s fourth solo album, 7s follows Portner’s 2019 LP, Cows On Hourglass Pond. Dave teamed up with producer Adam McDaniel (Angel Olsen, Archers of Loaf) at Drop of Sun Studios in his hometown of Asheville, North Carolina to finish up the record, which he calls “a dreamy surrealist landscape.”

Avey Tare began creating 7s while holed up in his home in the woods on the edge of Asheville during the lockdown days of the pandemic. When it was once again safe to collaborate in person again, Portner began going to his friend Adam McDaniel’s Drop Of Sun Studios to flesh out the demos he had created during lockdown time.

“The plot for 7s, then, was set: trusting, intuitive, exploratory collaboration among friends after a winter without it,” press materials described Avey Tare’s new album. “These songs are like overstuffed jelly jars, cracking so that the sweetness oozes out into unexpected shapes. Still, the sweetness—that is, Avey’s compulsory hooks—remains at the center, the joy inside these Rorschach blots.”

Portner previewed 7s with “The Musical” and “Hey Bog.” The former arrived with a music video by Ellie Thatcher and the latter came with a visualizer by Dave’s sister Abby Portner. Check them out below:

Avey Tare is also set to hit the road around 7s, fittingly beginning in Asheville on March 23. The first leg of the spring trek will see Portner in Atlanta, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Detroit and Chicago among other stops. The eastern stint wraps in Minneapolis on April 8.

After a couple weeks off, Avey Tare resumes his run on the West Coast beginning on April 27 in Big Sur, California. The West Coast swing includes stops in San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver. After looping back east to hit Salt Lake City, Denver and Phoenix, Portner returns to the West Coast in San Diego on May 10 before wrapping the spring solo tour in Los Angeles on May 13.

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