Collected Animals • Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart new solo album featuring Avey

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Post **Posted:** Mon Oct 30, 2017 2:25 pm

https://pitchfork.com/news/grateful-dea ... re-listen/

"Wayward Son" is available now and the other 2 tracks featuring Avey will be out November 10th with the full album.

Pretty incredible hearing Dave's vocals in this very-different-from-AC-style sonic atmosphere.

Post **Posted:** Mon Oct 30, 2017 4:07 pm

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes !

Post **Posted:** Mon Oct 30, 2017 4:10 pm

Whoa thought it was just the one but 3 tracks?!

Post **Posted:** Mon Oct 30, 2017 5:13 pm

Wow. I thought it was only one song too. That’s awesome.

Post **Posted:** Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:54 pm

This album is super interesting. Kinda loving it so far

Post **Posted:** Sat Nov 11, 2017 6:22 pm

whole album is super sweet. love these new Avey tracks. I'm wondering if he was presented the finished tracks to wordsmith or they worked actively together on it

Post **Posted:** Mon Nov 13, 2017 8:22 pm

This album was a little overproduced imo, but I love the Avey features, especially Wayward Son

Post **Posted:** Mon Nov 13, 2017 9:01 pm

the Avey songs are great and some of the instrumentals are pretty cool, but the female rapper sounds really out of place and kind of ruins it for me

Post **Posted:** Mon Nov 13, 2017 9:50 pm

^agreed with both of the comments above. She's obviously very talented but her parts are so cringey. Sometimes she sounds like Nicki Minaj which is jarring, especially after Avey

Post **Posted:** Tue Nov 14, 2017 9:01 pm

I actually really enjoy this record. I was pleasantly surprised. It kinda sounds like if AC and Gang Gang Dance made a record together in a lot of places.

I dont mind the female rapper that much, the political lines are a little too much but other than that its still enjoyable. I am obviously biased but the Avey songs are the best part of the record for sure. Doesn't sound like a record that a 74 year old drummer from the grateful dead would create.

Post **Posted:** Sat Nov 18, 2017 3:07 pm

It's neat to hear Avey in a pop setting, as his presence on a track & singing style is so anti-traditional-harmonies (Wayward Son). His voice feels a lot more at home in Time Beyond Reason and You Remind Me. Even just the timbre of his voice is introspective/ retrospective (bias/ conditioned?)..so the dancey-poppy backdrop is a pleasantly strange combination