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I liked Sung Tongs, but this new record is seriously just one big "WTF"

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

...?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

yeah, "wtf" in what way? i find it more straightforward than any of their previous records.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

it sounds very, very much like their recent live shows (past year or so) with a lot of that material being present on the record. much more spastic/electric than sung tongs. sort of 'same-y' at times.

― b'angelo, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

i find it more straightforward than any of their previous records.

Really? It sounds almost like a completely diferrent band to me, there's nothing as immediate as "Leaf House" or "Who Could Win a Rabbit" (though I did like "Grass" a bit, but even that was just a total headfuck), there's so much going on, the vocals sound really different... the production is odd.. it's a lot noiseier... it's just not what I expected, that's all.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

has it leaked then? what's the title?

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

"Feels", promo's been out a month. Just got mine though :_(

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

xpost to Brainwasher

that's all true about the faster songs, which seem more like Animal Collective's take on rock - the slower songs are more Sung Tongs-ish. all of it is extremely enjoyable.

― lemin (lemin), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

brainwasher, have you heard here comes the indian? because feels is pretty much a nice mix of HCTI's sonix and Sung Tongs's songs.
also, i say them live a couple months ago, so i kind of knew what to expect.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

It seems kind of closed in to me, where Sung Tongs was bursting out. I wish this was a little "wilder".

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, the production on this makes the songs a lot thicker it seems like- Scott Colbourne for Feels vs. Rusty Santos on Sung Tongs (and pretty much everything before, right?). But it does a good job of capturing the energy they had when they were playing these songs live on the last tour, and there are a lot of nice touches (the piano parts, for example).

― Kevin H (Kevin H), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Can anyone clue me in on how to check this out? Couldn't find it on slsk. Any chance someone coud YSI a track or two?

― Oklahomie, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

it's on slskkk!!
soemtime search works better if you go in a big rrom and do 'room search'

hint:

INDIE ROOM

― hais!, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

i wrote a little about it at my b-spot:
http://imbidimts.blogspot.com/2005/08/beta-feels-feels.html

― b8a, Thursday, 11 August 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

so is ' i remember how to dive' supposed to have that clicking texture/noise through the whole track or do i have a faulty mp3?

― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

i think it's supposed to be there

percussion

― lf, Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

I own the CD, and yeah, it is there.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

ok though so thanks

― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

sounds like a click track to me.

― spastic heritage (spastic heritage), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

I was pretty unenthused about AC before this year, then they released "Feels" and it blows my mind. So of course I figured there was something about them I'd been missing all along and that things had finally clicked with me on "Feels" for whatever reason. I returned to "Sung Tongs" and "Campfire Songs" ... and they're exactly as I remember them. Worse, even. Now ------ we're --------------- strumming ------------- slowly, nowwe'restummingfast!!!!*!*&!&!*! ---------------------------------------------------- slow ------ again.

Did they smoke up with the devil before writing the songs on "Feels"?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 15 December 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

I was pretty unenthused about "Sung Tongs" until that one day when I was coming back from Amsterdam by bus, it was middle of the night and we wer cruising through somplace and this really cool get-to-sleep music comes on randomly on the ipod.

― Jibé (Jibé), Thursday, 15 December 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

I guess people don't have patience for the old stuff...to say it's just slow strumming is baffling to me, maybe you're hearing it with ears that are conditioned to simple pop...but I've listened to everything in their catalog extensively, and Feels really fails to reach the transcendent levels of Sung Tongs, Campfire Songs and HCTI..Feels is a concise view of their overall sound, but it loses a lot of the magic in the condensation process

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

and the fact that the singing went from angelic harmonies to Ween doesn't help

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

MindinRewind, EVERY song/album/artist/genre sounds like crap when you describe their music in a series of first person sentences from their perspective. I mean, here's every post-rock song ever.
Look at this we're playing real mellow and slow... now it's kind of loud... UH OH IT'S LOUD NOW!!!!! ------ Now it's quiet again... GETTING KIND OF LOUD... REAL LOUD!!!!! ---- lol now it's quiet.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

yeh - and what's with all that boomboomboom music? Rubbish! Hip hop? It's just people shouting. Metal's all RAARGH RAARGH RAARGH and it all sounds the same.

― Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Thursday, 15 December 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

OK, you guys are right, I was being unfair there. But I'm surprised at myself that I don't have "patience for the old stuff", considering how much ambient, drone, Kranky, etc. I own. I probably overstated my case too -- I don't dislike the old stuff, but it doesn't capture me. I listened to "Campfire Songs" again last night and it was just ... pleasant.

"Feels" is a noisier record (in the shoegaze sense) than anything else I've heard from them, I know that has something to do with why I like it so much.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 15 December 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

I also have to note that my dumb little parody doesn't apply to "Feels" -- a few of the songs are anchored by charging, constant backbeats (rhythmic minimalism = another thing I'd expect myself to like).

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 15 December 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

mindinrewind, have you listened to spirit they're vanished, spirit they've gone, danse manatee or here comes the indian? if you only hear campfire songs and sung tongs, you're not really getting the whole picture.

― spastic heritage (spastic heritage), Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

I've heard "Here Comes the Indian", but not the others. Inasmuch as you can't really compare ten-minute noise crescendoes to off-kilter psych-pop, I think I like it better than "Sung Tongs". But like I said, I like noisy records, so some of their gentler acoustic songs tend to lose my interest.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 15 December 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

MindInRewind, it took me a long time to get into anything other than Sung Tongs, and even that took me a while to figure out. I'd say if anything, listen to "Two Corvettes" off of Campfire Songs and read along the lyrics - that's what did it for me. The carefree, summery, peaceful joy mashed up against the last section nearly brings me to tears. "Doggy" too, but less so.

For me Sung Tongs is my fave cos it's completely original and it sounds very organic and meticulously unprepared. Feels is fine, but veers very close to Flaming Lips territory at times. Sung Tongs just sounds like the Beach Boys playing messed up folk songs in the middle of the desert whilst peeling out on the strongest shrooms ever and I love it. One of the most important albums of this decade for me. But as I say, it took me a long time for it to click. Tracks like "Visiting Friends" can be pretty tedious and overlong, but I'd say something like "We Tigers" epitomises the tribal harmonic joy of that point in their career.

― Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Friday, 16 December 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

also, danse manatee and spirit they've gone are mediocre efforts at best. accomplishedly sophomoric but i wouldn't recommend them to people who are starting out. Never really "got" Here Comes The Indian either, although I can kinda see the appeal behind it. I think.

― Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Friday, 16 December 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

I always liked Sung Tongs, but it really clicked for me after I read Avey's description of it as a catalogue of comic book adventures around the city. I think the campfire/woods thing gets played up too much for it. But as little vignettes of crazy urban life, it makes so much sense and flows so well.

― helperbird, Friday, 16 December 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

i think spirit... is far from mediocre -- it was the first thing i heard from them and it's probably still my favorite. i'm slightly befuddled by the "sung tongs is the best" crowd. (not that i don't love that album too...)

― spastic heritage (spastic heritage), Friday, 16 December 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Any word on rhe new album for '07? A European Tour seems to be slowly building up.

― I know, right?, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

They recorded the new record in march in tuscon with scott colburn. they are now mixing it so i guess it will come out in the fall. on domino. spring tour of the south/midwest too

― mizzell, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

Does that mean that Person Pitch isn't being toured (also the Avey Tare backwards thing that seems pretty intriguing...) I have been listening to Hollingdagain. I know they are playing in Utrecht so I am considering blowing all the summer job money I make on going there. Also I have a friend from there, so that would be nice.

― I know, right?, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

ooh, Scott´s presence is a good sign. dude is a really, really good engineer.

― sleeve, Thursday, 29 March 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

i've really tried to like sung tongs. it's not working very well for me. i like it in "theory" but i never want to listen to it.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 29 March 2007 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

Really, but it's so poppy! I get a bit like that about Manatee Danse more. It's a little off putting sometimes. I think there's something really addictive about Mouth Wooed Her especially. It's so much fun!

― I know, right?, Thursday, 29 March 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

I saw a.c. back in july and i'm still impressed. I think the newest material is a lot better than strawberry jam (which is still good). Right now I think this newest stuff is kinda the best dance music ever. specially 'material things' is wonderful techno-ish. Anyone seen them lately and feeling the same?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1HXQ1ybwBM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iSG6U2YcQ0

― maarten, Friday, 24 August 2007 07:43 (eighteen years ago)

animal collective is my favorite band to see live. they are always so totally on fire that i feel like i am staring into my heart.

― elan, Friday, 24 August 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

this new material is really cool i am glad

― elan, Friday, 24 August 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

― Brigadier Pudding, Friday, 24 August 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

Saw them in Tripod last night. Fucking brilliant. No further discussion required.

― I know, right?, Monday, 5 November 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, when I saw them live in Berlin a few weeks ago they were astonishing. Total intergalactic balearic in parts, especially for their encore.

― Tim F, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

saw them in paris two weeks ago. the best live show i've seen.

(and i found them awful twice before)

― poortheatre, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Wait, how did this not become its own joke thread? I want to see more genres described.

― Cunga, Monday, 22 December 2008 22:06 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Gauntlet Hair is a relatively unknown pair of dudes who are named Andy and Craig, from the small-ish (23,000 population) Colorado town of Lafayette. The pair garnered a fair amount of attention after being part of the Rhinoceropolis-curated block of Denver-based bands that played at the post-SXSW Mexican extravaganza MtyMx. The band’s track “I Was Thinking… ” is a pretty insatiable guitar stomp that throws some R&B and soul into the lo-fi revival pot, mixing heavily-reverbed guitars with a simple, but undeniably booty-shaking beat. Add in some Animal Collective-style vocal melodies and you’ve got something pretty fantastic.

Does anything quite make you want to not hear a band like "Add in some Animal Collective-style vocal melodies"?

― Cunga, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 00:13 (sixteen years ago)

I was this lose to wanting to hear the band but then they throw down that little detail at the last minute and I'm backing out and taking off the headphones

― Cunga, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 00:14 (sixteen years ago)

the fact that "post-anco" is a real thing and not just some ironic yuks on a message board blows my mind

― TeRRaFuGiA FLYinG CaR - ELeCTRiC DReaMs - PHiLiP OaKLeY / GiorGiO MoRoDeR (LOLK), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 00:35 (sixteen years ago)

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