Sung Tongs

Sung Tongs
Animal Collective studio album
Publication (s)	June 1, 2004
admission	September 2003
Label (s)	Fat Cat Records
Format (s)	CD , LP
Genre (s)	Artrock Psychfolk
Title (number)	12
running time	52:50
occupation	Vocals , guitar : Avey Tare Vocals, electro: Panda Bear
production	Animal Collective, Rusty Santos
chronology Here Comes the Indian 2003 Sung Tongs Prospect Hummer 2005
Single release July 19, 2004 Who Could Win a Rabbit

Sung Tongs is the fifth studio album by the experimental band Animal Collective from Baltimore . It was released on June 1, 2004 on Fat Cat Records.

style

Despite the name "Animal Collective", only two band members are present on the album, namely Avey Tare (David Portner) and Panda Bear (Noah Lennox). As a result, Sung Tongs is a simpler and more reduced album than other Animal Collective releases. On the album Lennox and Portner use both acoustic guitar and exotic-sounding drums. The electric guitar, an important instrument in the previous album Here Comes the Indian, is not represented. This album brought the band closer to the genres of psychfolk and freak folk , which the group was repeatedly categorized into at the time.

Sung Tongs is considered the band's breakthrough album. Critics rated the album extremely positive and it found itself on many 2004 best lists by the end of the year.

History of origin

On the Collected Animals internet forum, Portner speaks about the recordings for the album.

"Yeah, we recorded it on the same tascam 48 (half inch 8 track) that I recorded Spirit on and the drums guitars and early electronics for Danse Manatee . That is we recorded the acoustic guitars and the vocals on 8 tracks. Then we mixed it down on Rusty's laptop and recorded many vocal and percussion over dubs. It's been using that for years. We mixed it from that onto .... something .. (I cant remember) at Noah's mom's place in Baltimore . It was very cold so we had to wear jackets the whole time. We added in all those samples and electronics there. We mixed for a while so its sweet you like the mixing. Oh and we used AKGs and an old ribbon mike to record with. Though we had a pzm and some sm57s that we might have used as well. I remember using the pzm to record me slamming the door of the house which is what that distorted rhythm track in kids on holiday is. The person talking at the beginning of Who Could Win A Rabbit is someone in a deli in my neighborhood. "

“We recorded the album on the same recorders that we used to record spirit and the drums, guitars and early electro stuff for Danse Manatee . We recorded the acoustic guitars and vocals on eight tracks. Then we mixed it on Rusty's [meaning producer Rusty Santos] laptop and recorded a lot of vocal and percussion overdubs. He'd been doing that for years. We mixed it up from there ... something (can't remember) in Noah's childhood home in Baltimore . It was very cold so we had to wear jackets all the time. We added all this samples and electronics. We mixed for a while [...]. The person who speaks of "Who Could Win A Rabbit" at the beginning is someone in a deli in my area. "

- Avey Tare

Abby Portner designed the album cover, Rob Carmichael the design and layout of the album. Danny Perez made a music video for "Who Could Win a Rabbit".

Trivia

The short track college with the line “You don't have to go to college” was often misinterpreted politically. Avey Tare writes in the aforementioned Collective Animals news forum:

"I just threw that line in there to make it funny and to be anti beachboys cause the song is so beach boys to begin with. You know its like the anti..be true to your school mentality of the fifties. "

“I just threw this line in to make it fun and anti- beach boys because the song sounds like beach boys. You know it's like the anti ... be for your school mentality from the fifties. "

- Avey Tare

In 2005, Avey Tare said in an interview: "The response to the song has been insane. At concerts, people scream that we play it and we get emails from teenagers asking for advice."

The song Visiting Friends was influenced by the “Pop Ambient” series by the German label Kompakt and the Gas project by Wolfgang Voigt , especially his breakthrough album Zauberberg . It should be "like a wall of humming [...] but with acoustic guitars".

Portner recalls the recordings for the single Who Could Win a Rabbit :

"The first time we played" Who Could Win a Rabbit "after we recorded it, we just went nuts and said," Oh shit, we did that ??? .... ""

- Avey Tare : Forum post by Avey Tare in the Collected Animals Internet forum, April 13, 2006

Track list

1. "Leaf House" - 2:42
2. "Who Could Win a Rabbit" - 2:18
3. "The Softest Voice" - 6:46
4. "Winters Love" - ​​4:55
5. "Kids on Holiday" - 5:47
6. "Sweet Road" - 1:15
7. "Visiting Friends" - 12:36
8. "College" - 0:53
9. "We Tigers" - 2:43
10. "Mouth Wooed Her" - 4:24
11. "Good Lovin Outside" - 4:26
12. "Whaddit I Done" - 4:05

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Forum Collected Animals ( memento of the original from October 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Forum Collected Animals ( Memento of the original of September 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ ^{a b} MOTHER NATURE'S SONS: Animal Collective and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti by Simon Reynolds , The Wire , 2005