Released a brain-tickling twenty years ago this year, 2004's Sung Tongs was the album that really cemented Animal Collective as a group to reckon with. Overflowing with the kinds of "celebratory dances and momentary epiphanies" that Pitchfork celebrated upon its initial release, including fan favourites like Who Could Win A Rabbit, College, and Leaf House, this record was written and recorded by a duo version of the band - that being Avey Tare and Panda Bear. Now revived and reissued on double coloured vinyl, it doesn't matter who could win a rabbit, because you could own Sung Tongs! - Flying Out
Recorded in a house in rural Colorado, and engineered and mixed by Rusty Santos, Sung Tongs is a dazzling, bold and adventurous pop album. Diverse in its scope and yet fully coherent, the album moves from chiming acoustic guitar songs to gentler, more dispersed picked ballads, to sprawling, guitar-swell psychedelics, bubbling, acid-warped vocal fx, and tribal, almost shamanic trance-outs based around looping vocals and hypnotic kick-pulses.
Tracklist
- Leaf House
- Who Could Win A Rabbit
- The Softest Voice
- Wainters Love
- Kids On Holida
- Sweet Road
- Visiting Friends
- College
- We Tigers
- Mouth Wooed Her
- Good Lovin Outside
- Whaddit I Done
