Review: Avey Tare explores memory and time on the weighty but ultimately disappointing Cows on Hourglass Pond

Send a member of Animal Collective on tour and you're bound to get an album's worth of new material out of it. They're one of the finest bands to operate in that off-the-cuff, emotional level this side of The Grateful Dead. What places them so high on this list involves more than "jamming" on stage and recording the next session. The songwriting and form goes through a metamorphosis as well. With Avey Tare, one quarter of the band and its principal songwriter, this is exceptionally true. The son...