Animal Collective’s two most industrious solo outputting members (Panda Bear and Avey Tare) have both issued studio LPs in 2019. Avey Tare’s third (Cows on Hourglass Pond, recorded on reel-to-reel tape machine) takes some experimental pop turns you’d expect. Sometimes it works, floating and melodically bizarre à la first single “Saturdays Again,” which throws together a warped baying sample of a sitar, or maybe it’s cello, strummed acoustic and picked electric guitar melodies, a muffled kick-drum beat, and the perfect low-end cradle to hold it all together and bounce it right along as the artist (aka David Portner) croons hazily and sweetly on time with some occasional “doo doo doo doo”s. Other times, it feels a bit too abstract, woozy, and weird for weird’s sake, like the strums-and-synths-fueled “Blue Chill.” Still, those AC guys sure know how to throw a show. Expect trippy visuals and lots of looping. by Leilani Polk