Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks: Enter the Slasher House review – passable indie, but don't give up the day jobs

Having released a solo album, Down There, in 2010, Animal Collective guitarist Avey Tare has decided to go down the indie supergroup route for the follow-up, recruiting Dirty Projectors' bass player and Dan Deacon's drummer. The results are passable enough, leftfield indie. Indeed, throughout the album you're rarely more than six seconds from something that sounds like an offcut from MGMT's Oracular Spectacular, only all too often shorn of the chart-bothering hooks. There are occasional sparks of brilliance, notably Duplex Trip's lolloping melody and Little Fang's disco inflections. But the heights reached by the band members' day jobs are never scaled.