Sung Tongs

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Sung Tongs
Sung Tongs cover
Studio album by Animal Collective
Released May 3, 2004
Recorded 2003
Genre Experimental/Indie Rock
Length 52:50
Label Fat Cat Records
Producer(s) Rusty Santos
Professional reviews
Animal Collective chronology
Here Comes the Indian
(2003)
Sung Tongs
(2004)
Feels
(2005)


Sung Tongs is the sixth album by New York-based band Animal Collective, released on May 3, 2004 by Fat Cat Records.

Despite the name 'Animal Collective' attached to this album, only two of the band's four members play on it: Avey Tare (David Portner) and Panda Bear (Noah Lennox). As a result, Sung Tongs is a much more stripped-down affair than most of the other Animal Collective releases, with the notable exception of Campfire Songs. There is no presence of electric guitars; rather, Avey and Panda both utilise acoustic guitars and tribal-like drums. This musical palette brings the band's sound closer to the psych folk genre that critics tend to group them in.

Sung Tongs is generally considered to be Animal Collective's breakthrough record; it generated heaps of praise from critics, and was frequently featured in best-of lists at the end of 2004.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Leaf House" – 2:42
  2. "Who Could Win a Rabbit" – 2:18
  3. "The Softest Voice" – 6:46
  4. "Winter's 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

[edit] Awards

  • #9 in Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the Decade's First Half (2000-2004) [1]


Animal Collective
Avey Tare | Panda Bear | Deakin | Geologist
Other Contributors: Vashti Bunyan | Doctess | Eyvind
Band Discography
Albums: Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished | Danse Manatee | Hollinndagain | Campfire Songs | Here Comes the Indian | Sung Tongs | Feels
Extended Plays: Prospect Hummer | People
Singles: "Wastered" | "Who Could Win a Rabbit" | "Grass" | "The Purple Bottle"
Solo & Related Acts: Terrestrial Tones | Jane | Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan | Panda Bear
Solo & Related Discography
Studio Albums: Panda Bear | Paradise | COcOnuts | Young Prayer | Blasted | Oboroed / Circus Lives | Berserker | Dead Drunk | Person Pitch | Pullhair Rubeye
Extended Plays & Singles: Crumbling Land | "I'm Not/Comfy in Nautica" | "Bro's" | "Carrots" | "Take Pills"
See also
Paw Tracks | New Weird America | WikiProject
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