Animal Collective: The Scientists
BIG IN '09: Boundary-pushing, willfully abstract experimental noise pop for the rest of us.
By Andy Battaglia 01.05.09 7:19 PM
Dave Portner is freaking out. Better known by his cryptic sobriquet Avey Tare, he's lying flat on the floor, eyes open wide, startled by something invisible and evidently very strange in the air above. Bandmate Brian Weitz, or Geologist, is splayed out beside him, swaying his head from side to side extreeeemely sloooowly.




