Unlike last year's impressive Here Comes the Indian, Sung Tongs opts for folky ambience and late-night, summer camp sing-alongs to carry the weight (or weightlessness) of its strains.
Sung Tongs is an inch more sublime than anything they’ve done previously, with more phenomenal use of their manic choir of Motown vocals, less scattered, clique-ish dissonance, and more sideshow bubblegum-pop freaking out on god-knows-what powerful substance.
Sung Tongs is a striking record, a breath of fresh air within experimentalist indie rock.
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“Sung Tongs are tongs about returning to an old house, doing nothing with friends, or making sound with bones.”
Sung Tongs is the first Animal Collective record since Spirit They’re Gone to only feature the ‘original’ two members; that is, only Avey Tare and Panda Bear make an appearance on this record. As an ... read more
This is where the fun begins! Yeah, their debut was amazing, but still!
Up until this point, the band has been experimenting really hard with their sound, and they never really found it up until this point. So they just decide to do psychedelic shit for their career, and I wouldn’t really want it any other way.
They do a psychedelic freak folk album of sorts, and saying that it sounded their best since their debut would be an understatement. Their vocals are much better than what they ... read more
buzzed college students survive a radioactive spill and then start the greatest campfire session of all time immediately afterwards
Definitely one of their best albums so far in my listen. the sounds just take you to another planet like its some music aliens have made.
1 | Leaf House 2:42 | 94 |
2 | Who Could Win a Rabbit 2:18 | 94 |
3 | The Softest Voice 6:46 | 89 |
4 | Winters Love 4:55 | 94 |
5 | Kids on Holiday 5:47 | 91 |
6 | Sweet Road 1:15 | 84 |
7 | Visiting Friends 12:36 | 89 |
8 | College 0:53 | 79 |
9 | We Tigers 2:43 | 89 |
10 | Mouth Wooed Her 4:24 | 87 |
11 | Good Lovin Outside 4:26 | 85 |
12 | Whaddit I Done 4:05 | 72 |
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