Animal Collective Sung Tongs POLL

Can't wait to see PB play an acoustic guitar again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh3o73dDuHc

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I usually find clicking on "ILM Answers" does the trick.

Why would you post in threads for bands you dislike

*regularly

In the case of Animal Collective, the praise they get from people who otherwise like some great stuff absolutely confounds me. This album, for example, codes to me as whiny American vocals fronting the sort of self-consciously inept crud that often mistakenly gets branded as "psychedelic" ...

Absolutely nothing at all about this band feels natural.

ok well you're not going to get anywhere or change anyone's mind reiterating that same exact sentiment every time an AC thread gets bumped. i really don't understand why you do it, it's just irritating and obnoxious and a complete of waste of time for everyone

"irritating and obnoxious and a complete of waste of time for everyone" would be a good capsule review for the band in general, IMO... unless you can helpfully point me to something worthwhile about this band or explain what on Earth you see in 'em.

Fuck off

lol @ this performance of "Mouth Wooed Her" at 18:46

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5-ovtyXp9A

Starting to sink in imagining what that room is going to be like tomorrow when everyone sings "College" together

Fuck that was amazing. Stood up front through a shitty Alex G set but was worth it. They get up on stage, sitting in folding chairs, two acoustics for each of them & a single floor tom, Avey just grins and whispers "sunngggg tongggss" crowd goes apeshit. crowd sang every word of the record. one of the best shows i've ever been to. also they fucking played COVERED IN FROGS going into Winter's Love. and closed with Prospect Hummer. it was just fucking great.

for posterity, a nice audience video of the whole set. i've seen the multi-camera p4k stream, some fans recorded it bc p4k isn't going to put the whole thing up, all of those are unlisted atm but i'll post if i find one i can embed, it's a nice video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWrSscnBFdA

Leaf House
Who Could Win a Rabbit
The Softest Voice
Covered in Frogs
Winters Love
Kids on Holiday
Sweet Road
Visiting Friends
College
We Tigers
Mouth Wooed Her
Good Lovin' Outside
Whaddit I Done
Prospect Hummer

Any sign they’ll return to this sound when/if they record a new album? Would be great.

Someone talked to PB after the show and he said they're considering touring Sung Tongs (!)

Avey Tare's solo record this year + the Meeting of the Waters EP were acoustic based, he definitely seems headed in that direction, and even though PB's new EP is supposed to sound like deep house/techno, his willingness to play this Sung Tongs set and potentially tour it are encouraging re: the next AC record. really hope it happens too - they've been stuck in sampler land for too long (although I loved the Painting With album and the shows for it even more).

Wow! Haven’t gone through the whole thing but what a great concert and crowd! Didn’t realize how sing-along the album actually is but when you have a full crowd doing the vocal oooohs and aaahs and whathaveyou it sounds gorgeous and seems like real fun to sing along to. I’m jealous.

even though it was ostensibly a birthday party for p4k (was smoking outside early in the night and someone asked me if i worked for p4k or was here for 'that animal band'), the crowd was easily 90% hardcore AC fans. like, you can hear the crowd freak out when Avey starts singing "Covered in Frogs," an obscure never-recorded Sung Tongs era castoff (and my favorite song of that era). and then losing it again at the end when they started "Prospect Hummer," everyone singing "whoaaa whoaaa whoaa whoaa whoaaaas." A thousand people singing every word of the record, and then falling into solemn silence during "The Softest Voice" and "Visiting Friends," the latter of which was just out of this world- I closed my eyes for most of it but I looked around at one point and saw many people openly weeping. a guy proposed to his girlfriend during "Winters Love." you get that many people in the room so excited & completely in tune with the artist, it was truly magical.

here's an unlisted rip of the multi-camera p4k stream- do yourself a favor and watch "Visiting Friends"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeU-ZBGLVyY

ha, Moka you should check out "Mouth Wooed Her" from the p4k stream- you can see people doing the staggered claps in the second half of the song. like, not only were people singing every word, they were mimicking the sound effects and overdubs on the record

Ah We Tigers sounds so fun! They should do that one in every live performance. If the crowd follows it’s crazy stupid fun. Makes me want to see a performance with one of those student choirs that are all over youtube..z like this Crystal Castles - Untrust Us cover: https://youtu.be/g7a2u9v0V0c

Oh I just got to ‘mouth wooed her’ I’m going to cry tears of envy.

https://youtu.be/auL2dU5U-4s

here's a great winters love student choir performance

I revisited this record for the first time in *years* yesterday... some excellent tracks (Winters Love, Leaf House, Softest Voice) and i liked the 12 minute song more than i remember. But everything after College is kinda... unlistenable??

Perhaps it's something i just need to listen to more until it clicks but all i could think was, like, how stoned was Pitchfork back in 2004 to think this was good enough to be an 8.9?? (if i remember the score correctly). Do people actually think Whaddit I Done is good?

and like, I LOVE those tracks I mentioned earlier. So i want to love this. but the second half is a mess!

it's funny how Who Could Be A Rabbit? sounds so dated. I like it, but it's very mid-2000. I think as a teenager i wished it was less weird, now i think it sounds so overtly pop!

Love this album.

Drop off on the last three tracks is real, but also I wouldn't say they're horrible. I always listened to those almost as soundscapes because the songwriting chops aren't on full display, a flip side to visiting friends that is not intentionally trying to be visiting friends. Maybe it's too forgiving a perspective but it works for me!

Softest voice to visiting friends is exactly what I want AnCo to be always. they're at their best at their most melancholy (see: Banshee Beat, Cuckoo Cuckoo, No More Running, man-of-oil EP)

I quite like Whaddit I Done

We Tigers was robbed in this poll

We Tigers is my authentic teenager choice and also my closeted 28yo choice which I will never tell anyone about.

visiting friends and the softest voice are the true victims. Glad kids on holiday got respect at least