Animal Collective's Avey Tare and Geologist honor the late David Berman with charity cover

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Photo: David Berman (Shawn Ehlers/Getty Images); Avey Tare (Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images
Earlier this month, we lost one of the music world’s most indelible songwriters in David Berman, the Silver Jews frontman who just this year released an acclaimed new album as Purple Mountains. Now, when many fans had planned on catching Berman’s new band on tour, they’ve taken instead to mourning with his vast output on the stereo. That was certainly the case for Animal Collective’s Avey Tare and Geologist, at least, who just dropped a cover of Silver Jews’ haunting “Ballad Of Revered War Character.”