Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Critic Score
Based on 11 reviews
2004 Ratings: #18 / 458
User Score
2004 Rank: #68
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
Drowned in Sound
The intricate layers of sound and percussion, each hum and click and yelp adding something to the other โ€“ the centre, invariably, holds. And yet, the excitement of experimentation and improvisation is never lost. Animal Collective are psychedelic warriors for our burned-out age.
100
Uncut
Rarely has contrived weirdness sounded so utterly bewitching.
89
Pitchfork

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.

80
Tiny Mix Tapes
Holistically, there's nothing remarkably new here that hasn't been pursued before by this collective. The execution is nice and easily situates this album in the top two of their performances, and the sound quality far surpasses their previous efforts.
80
PopMatters

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.

80
AllMusic

Sung Tongs is a striking record, a breath of fresh air within experimentalist indie rock.

80
Alternative Press
Imagine a pagan Danielson Famile on magic mushrooms, or a folk-rock cLOUDDEAD.
80
Mojo
Melds way-out weird with a pop welcome that sounds like no one else around right now.
PunkRevNow
100

like this review if you smoke weed and listen to animal collective

Windy
84

๐—”๐—ป๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—–๐—ผ๐—น๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ'๐˜€ ๐——๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ต๐˜†: ๐—ฆ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ง๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ด๐˜€

“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

ImpalaLT
88

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

96

buzzed college students survive a radioactive spill and then start the greatest campfire session of all time immediately afterwards

Sammy02103
90

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.

Peetuh
100

I need mouth water

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Track List

1Leaf House
2:42
94
2Who Could Win a Rabbit
2:18
94
3The Softest Voice
6:46
89
4Winters Love
4:55
94
5Kids on Holiday
5:47
91
6Sweet Road
1:15
84
7Visiting Friends
12:36
89
8College
0:53
79
9We Tigers
2:43
89
10Mouth Wooed Her
4:24
87
11Good Lovin Outside
4:26
85
12Whaddit I Done
4:05
72
Total Length: 52 minutes

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