Avey Tare & Kria Brekkan

Pullhair Rubeye

[3.5/5] Some music is so ethereal it seems impossible to capture it on tape or disc. Such is the case with Pullhair Rubeye. A collaboration between Avey Tare (Animal Collective’s Dave Portner) and Kria Brekkan (ex-Múm member Kristin Anna Valtysdottir), the album was recorded on an 8-track, then mixed down onto a borrowed, cheap 2-track-which went kaput before the recording was finished. Then the duo had a revelation after watching David Lynch’s Inland Empire: Play this latest batch of tunes backward. Consequently, the eight songs (featuring guitars piano, and Tare and Brekkan’s voices) sound nothing like that to which one is accustomed. The vocals are childlike and seemingly in an alien tongue, and the guitars and piano sound more like acutely warped string instruments being sucked repeatedly into a black hole. The whole thing possesses the air of a woozy reverie, a gentle disengagement from reality. (PAW TRACKS) Dave Segal