Sung Tongs
Occupation
- Vocals, guitar: Avey Tare
- Vocals, Electric: Panda Bear
Sung Tongs is the fifth studio album by the experimental band Animal Collective from Baltimore. It was published on 1 June 2004 on Fat Cat Records.
Style
Despite the name " Animal Collective " are just two band members on the album present, namely Avey Tare (David Portner ) and Panda Bear ( Noah Lennox ). As a result, Sung Tongs is a plainer and reduzierteres album than any other Animal Collective releases. On the album Lennox and Portner use both acoustic guitar and exotic - sounding drums. The electric guitar, an important tool in the previous album, Here Comes the Indian is not represented. This album brought the band closer to the genres of folk and psych freak -folk, in which the group was categorized at this time and again.
Sung Tongs is considered as a breakthrough album of the band. Critics rated the album a very positive and there was at the end of the year on many leaderboards 2004.
Genesis
On the Collected Animals forum Internet Portner talks about the recording of the album.
" Yeah, we recorded it on the same tascam 48 ( half inch 8 track ) did I recorded on Spirit and the drums guitars and early electronics for Danse Manatee. That is we recorded the acoustic guitars and the vocals on eight tracks. Then we mixed it down on Rusty's laptop and recorded many vocal and percussion over dubs. He's been using for years did. We mixed it from ontological did .... 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 awhile 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 did we mighthave used as well. I remember using the pzm to record me slamming the door of the house Which is what did 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 at the same recorders with which we recorded also Spirit and the drums, guitars and early electric stuff for Danse Manatee. We took the acoustic guitar and the vocals on eight tracks. Then we have it on Rusty's [meaning the producer Rusty Santos is ] mixed laptop and recorded a lot of vocals and percussion overdubs. He did this for years. We whip from then on ... something ( can not remember) in the childhood home of Noah in Baltimore. It was very cold, so we had to wear jackets all the time. We added all these samples and electrical stuff. We whip up a long time [ ... ]. The person who speaks at the beginning of " Who Could Win A Rabbit" is, someone in a deli in my area. "
Abby Portner designed the album covers, Rob Carmichael, the design and layout of the album. Danny Perez turned a music video for " Who Could Win a Rabbit ".
Trivia
The short track college with the line " You do not have to go to college " has often been interpreted politically incorrect. So Avey Tare writes in Collective Animals News Forum already mentioned:
" I just threw did line in there to make it funny and to be anti- beach boys 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 have this line simply dareingeworfen to make it fun and anti- beach boys, because the song sounds like so beach boys. You know it's like the anti ... be for your school mentality of the fifties. "
Avey Tare 2005 said in an interview: "The response to the song was crazy at concerts people cry out that we play it and we get emails from young people who ask advice. . ."
The song Visiting Friends was influenced by the " Pop Ambient " series of the German label Kompakt, and the "GAS " project by Wolfgang Voigt, in particular his breakthrough album " Magic Mountain". It should be " like a wall of buzz be [ ... ], but with acoustic guitars. "
Portner remembers the recordings for the single Who Could Win a Rabbit:
"The first time where we " Who Could Win a Rabbit " played after we received it, we shot simply by saying," Holy shit, we made .... " "?