Avey Tare - 7s

7s is the fourth solo studio album by American musician Avey Tare, released in February 2023 via Domino Recordings.

Avey Tare is a musician and songwriter who co-founded the American experimental pop band Animal Collective. He has released three solo albums, as well as three collaborative albums with Panda Bear (Noah Lennox).

During the first week of Jan '21, Avey Tare began making regular drives to his friend Adam McDaniel’s Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville, NC to give guts and flesh and colour to the skeletal demos he’d made at home the year prior.

The plot for 7s, Avey’s fourth solo album, was set: trusting, intuitive, exploratory collaboration among friends, after a Winter without it.

These songs are like overstuffed jelly jars, cracking so that the sweetness oozes out into unexpected shapes. Still, the sweetnes (that is, Avey’s compulsory hooks) remains at the centre, the joy inside these Rorschach blots.

If Animal Collective has forever been defined by its charming inscrutability, Avey surrenders to a new intimacy and candour with 7s.

This album is a limited edition on violet coloured vinyl with a printed inner sleeve and download code, pressed in Canada via Domino.