Avey Tare & Kria Brekkan

Best known as a founding member of experimental pop group Animal Collective, David Portner's (aka Avey Tare) psychedelic vision contributed to both Animal Collective's highly influential output, a healthy solo catalog, and several warped side projects. In the downtime from his main band, Portner has released records as wildly imagined as the completely backwards 2007 album Pullhair Rubeye and the more straightforward voicings of multifaceted songwriting like 2019's noisily pastoral Cows on Hourglass Pond and the fractalized pop of 2023's 7s. Portner was born on April 24, 1979...