Vinyl Record
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks - Enter the Slasher House
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks - Enter the Slasher House on 2LP vinyl. A 2014 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
2LP ยท 2014
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2014 2LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Enter the Slasher House introduced Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks as a short-lived but vivid side door into the Animal Collective universe. Released in 2014 through Domino, the record brings together Dave Portner with Angel Deradoorian and Jeremy Hyman, turning the project into a wiry psychedelic power trio rather than a loose solo detour. The album's title hints at horror, but the music is less shadowy soundtrack than crooked funhouse: rubbery bass movement, live-wire drums, warped synth color and Portner's yelped melodies colliding in songs that feel both playful and unstable. "Little Fang" supplies the clearest pop doorway, all spring-loaded charm and strange angles, while "A Sender", "Duplex Trip" and "Catchy (Was Contagious)" lean into a brighter, more frantic garage-psych attack. What makes the album interesting is its scale. It keeps the ecstatic, overloaded language associated with Avey Tare, but places it inside a band performance where the rhythm section can shove the songs forward in real time.
The album matters as a snapshot of Avey Tare stepping outside Animal Collective without abandoning his taste for unstable pop architecture. It shows how his writing changes when the textures are handled by a compact band: the songs become punchier, stranger in smaller rooms, and more physically driven than the project's haunted name suggests.
For collectors of Animal Collective-related work, Enter the Slasher House fills a very specific gap. It is not simply a solo album under another banner; it documents a named trio with its own chemistry, its own rhythm-section bite and its own brief mythology. On a shelf, it sits best beside records that treat indie rock as a laboratory for color, rhythm and nervous pop energy.
Psychedelic indie rock with garage-band momentum, elastic bass, bright analog synths, busy drums and Avey Tare's high-wire melodic phrasing.
Recommended for: Animal Collective listeners exploring the members' side projects; Fans of psychedelic pop that stays noisy and physically animated; Collectors interested in Domino's stranger 2010s indie releases; Listeners who like garage rock filtered through experimental production; Anyone drawn to playful records with an uneasy, carnival-like edge.
Is Enter the Slasher House an Avey Tare solo album? Not exactly. It is credited to Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, a trio with Angel Deradoorian and Jeremy Hyman, and the band dynamic is central to the record's feel. When did Enter the Slasher House come out? It was released in 2014, with the international release dated April 7 and the U.S. release following on April 8 through Domino. What is the easiest song to start with? "Little Fang" is the clearest doorway. It captures the album's bright hooks, oddball motion and mischievous tone without losing the project's experimental personality.