As a key creative force within Animal Collective and as Avey Tare, Dave Portner’s sonic adventurism has never failed to bring unconventional ideas closer to the centre of popular music. Characteristically off-kilter, his work seems unbeholden to any sonic ideal or expectation. Animal Collective notwithstanding, forthcoming album Eucalyptus delivers one of his most powerful, intimate and beautifully compelling musical statements to date. Although,…
The festival landscape has undergone major upheaval in the last three years, and Covid’s long-term impact on the music industry…
