Animal Collective - Tung Songs

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Has anyone else heard this? I just got it a few days ago and I'm listening non-stop. It's more cohesive than the other records I've heard and yet it still sounds like nothing else. Some bizarre amalgamation of folk/chant/psych madness, but somehow gleefully naive. It's gradually pushing Devendra out of rotation.

― jon pruett (jon pruett), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

[WILL SOMEONE PLEASE DO THE MARY KATE/ASHLEY WOLFEYES/ANIMAL COLLECTIVE HOT PICKS PICTURE ALREADY?]

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

gygax, remind me to when i am at home

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

my cats love it.

― queenbee (queenbee), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Brilliant record, appropriately described. Very beautiful & very strange at the same time.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

jon, the record is good, but i must dispute two things:

1) it sounds like lots of other things. As someone expertly pointed out on another thread, there's some Bob Drake stuff that sounds very much like what Animal Collective have been doing lately, and

2) Rejoicing in the Hands, as an album, eats Sung Tongs for lunch.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

have had very lukewarm responses to animal collective so far. have only heard the first two and 'indian'. but if they've been moving in a Bob Drake direction, that makes me want to check them out again, unless they're not as good as Drake -- what do people think?

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

"Rejoicing in the Hands, as an album, eats Sung Tongs for lunch"

whoa dude. not quite.
and did you mean (1) it "doesn't" sound like lots of other things?

― duke handclap, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

D Bannhart?
Tyrannosaurus Fucking Rex.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

umm, no, not at all.

i was refuting Jon's claim that the record "sounds like nothing else" - sorry for not being clear

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Bob Drake's Skull Mailbox album is kind of a "grown up" version of Sung Tongs, in that it seems less self-conscious, but at the same time, more considered. I prefer it to Sung Tongs, but I think both albums are great.

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

ah i didn't get your wording.
i do personally prefer 'sung' but why pit the two against one another anyway? i think devendra is a big panda bear fan, as it happens.

― duke comprehend, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Bob Drake, eh? Tell me more...

― jon pruett (jon pruett), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

there are reviews at pitchfork. my favorite two are Little Black Train and Medallion Animal Carpet, which sounds like Biota playing the Louvin Brothers.

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I like both, but I have to say Rejoicing gets the upper hand.

― Rubberband Man (Rubberband Man), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

THE EMPEROR HAS NO REVERB!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

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