[Jam]

I have cycled through almost every track being my favorite on Sung Tongs, I hesitate to pick one even now (historically Winters Love but maybe it’s the meditative trance of Visiting Friends, or could it be the catharsis of We Tigers, or probably it’s the bewildering and knotty Mouth Wooed Her).
Years ago I couldn’t connect with the Softest Voice or the final three tracks, but the album has always continued to shapeshift for me in terms of meaning and impact. I just find it to be a deeply healing and warm listen—there’s nothing else like it.

[BoomCheese]

jusswerjk wrote:

Is no one going to mention Leaf House??? Hearing that song for the first time was a high point in my music listening life. Still waiting to top that moment...

First AC song I ever heard Found it from a response on a Yahoo answers question asking for good indie rock bands (ah, the esoteric ways I used to discover music as a resourceless 15 year old!). Some dude put down a bunch of songs from different bands, including Leaf House by Animal Collective. Didn't know what to make of it at first, but kept finding myself drawn to it. It was unlike anything I'd ever heard, as I grew up in a small rural Aussie town where no one listened to anything even remotely alternative. Grew to love it of course.

[awesome]

someone posted a vinyl rip of step by step, not sure if it's been posted here:

[Stan]

Awesome, thanks. It sounds fantastic. I also love the flip side, like a more ecstatic, warm, slinky take on Crescendolls.

[captainlunatic]

digital version sounds incredible... absolute belter of a tune

[Stan]

Fucking hell, so it does. What an amazing production.

For info, the Bandcamp release seems to be EP only so you get Step By Step now and the other four tracks end of May.

Boomkat has the single which includes the single mix, 12" mix and Creative Source, that Crescendolls style track which I also love.

Boomkat WAV is also marginally bigger than Bandcamp, for info, so it's approx 1.4Mb better.

There's a lot more detail here even than in that recent vinyl rip, crisp little snapping hats and the pads sound fucking enormous and enveloping, really warm and dreamy.

[destiny]

On a highway is so beautiful. I forgot how hard that song could boom you. The percussion and harmonies... Also I think i can kinda reminds me of a sung tongs song but i have been listening to it a lot. The vocalsss and how they interact and the guitar (what if that shit was acoustic)... its just electric, but its like person pitch saying shit over and over mantra experience... but shit is so unique to that time period too...

[unrecordednight]

imagining once LP2 and music box are released someone making a monster 2.5hr long album of time skiffs/LP2/music box tracks that didn't make it onto the 2 albums with transitions that encompasses the whole era like reaper madness/tomboiled, would be sick

[captainlunatic]

jusswerjk wrote:

Is no one going to mention Leaf House??? Hearing that song for the first time was a high point in my music listening life. Still waiting to top that moment...

technically this was the first song of theirs i ever heard... ah to be in 10th grade and smoking in my bedroom to sung tongs on my old boombox again

[Cooper]

^i was in middle school, my brother played Grass, I was instantly and completely sold and mystified by the screaming chorus. Proceeded to become massively obsessed, I think he regrets showing me them lol

[jusswerjk]

Cooper wrote:

^i was in middle school, my brother played Grass, I was instantly and completely sold and mystified by the screaming chorus. Proceeded to become massively obsessed, I think he regrets showing me them lol

Haha. That's exactly how it happened to me, too. I was listening to a lot of punk/hardcore music at the time and bands like The Locust and The Blood Brothers were starting to get me more interested in experimental music.

Animal Collective was so far away from anything that I would normally listen to. I wrote off WCWAR because it was "too indie" or something. Then one of my friends played Grass on a mix CD while we were hotboxing his car and I really liked the simple melody, but the screaming chorus is what sealed the deal. I went home and listened to HCTI and liked Hey Light because it also had screaming in it. Then I listened to Leaf House and Purple Bottle on Myspace and the rest is history...

[doggyfactory]

Randomly remembered this lovely primitivist(?) take on Banshee Beat

[rampface]

My first AC was Strawberry Jam in 2007. Everyone on atease was talking about the freebird so I decided to check it out. When Peacebone was over, I remember thinking... "what the fuck did I just listen to" haha. I had never heard anything like it. I wasn't sure how I felt about it but kept listening to the album. Reverend Green was the song that made everything click for me. Not sure why. Then I remember searching for the rest of their records and finding out they were playing shows with songs from a completely different album! Strawberry Jam wasn't even officially out yet lol. I got some of the early MPP boots and became obsessed.

[awesome]

man what happened it atease, is it still around? get revived?

[Stan]

doggyfactory wrote:

Randomly remembered this lovely primitivist(?) take on Banshee Beat

Fucking hell I hate this so much

[lhtd]

ya it's a rare day that i enjoy acoustic folky covers of animal collective

[Tim]

awesome wrote:

man what happened it atease, is it still around? get revived?

It was gone but it is back. I kept forgetting to check on it.

[doggyfactory]

lhtd wrote:

ya it's a rare day that i enjoy acoustic folky covers of animal collective

I would not say acoustic guitar = folky

[lhtd]

ok

[Tropic]

Stan wrote:

doggyfactory wrote:

Randomly remembered this lovely primitivist(?) take on Banshee Beat

Fucking hell I hate this so much

It's terrible hahah

[coral lord]

id mug that guy

[doggyfactory]

Controversial cover huh. I just really like that weirdo jumbled strumming that looks like carpal tunnel itself.

[Dallou]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3um6KVkj08&ab_channel=ImranWanYusoff[/youtube]
Fav AC cover, pretty simple but reminds me of 2012

[headroom)))]

Really sweet FIreworks cover, never seen that before

[rohcti]

That's a sweet cover actually, however I think the best in my book will always be that Mercury Man string quartet one

[Fovrodi]

What the

[Stan]

Anyone remember a Bluish cover from like fifteen years ago?

Girl with a shaved head, guy playing double bass, think they might have been inside a wardrobe or bathroom.

Her vocal is better than the original in terms of the melody. Was like a lilting New Orleans jazzy twang to it.

[Dallou]

Fovrodi wrote:

What the

That was pretty cool !

[Tropic]

Fovrodi wrote:

What the

Oh shit !

[Tropic]

Anal Collective lol

Glad to see mullet child is a Merriweather stan

[jfw7]

Fovrodi wrote:

What the

wow, the wilco/AC crossover would have blown my mind in 2005. i appreciate the accuracy of the vocal harmonies too

[jfw7]

speaking of covers doesn't this clip of copper heatsink "skiving" sound like Comfy

[coral lord]

rohcti wrote:

That's a sweet cover actually, however I think the best in my book will always be that Mercury Man string quartet one

ya that one is probably my favorite too. showed another side of mercury man hidden in that windshield burrito

[headroom)))]

coral lord wrote:

rohcti wrote:

That's a sweet cover actually, however I think the best in my book will always be that Mercury Man string quartet one

ya that one is probably my favorite too. showed another side of mercury man hidden in that windshield burrito

Got a link?

[coral lord]

headroom))) wrote:

coral lord wrote:

rohcti wrote:

That's a sweet cover actually, however I think the best in my book will always be that Mercury Man string quartet one

ya that one is probably my favorite too. showed another side of mercury man hidden in that windshield burrito

Got a link?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1cdPHmF6WE

[Hellomark]

I remember seeing a video many years ago of a band covering Fireworks at what looked like a show in someone's backyard. The video was kinda dark and grainy, but I remember the performance sounding sick. Does this ring any bells for anyone?

[headroom)))]

coral lord wrote:

headroom))) wrote:

coral lord wrote:

rohcti wrote:

That's a sweet cover actually, however I think the best in my book will always be that Mercury Man string quartet one

ya that one is probably my favorite too. showed another side of mercury man hidden in that windshield burrito

Got a link?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1cdPHmF6WE

Thanks. Yeah, v different. Talented musicians for sure.
I came across this Alvin Row cover today that blew me away.

[mlohned]

https://youtu.be/kHCI6khCvW8?t=2148
Them Tweedy boys at it again, doing Little Fang.
They're clearly huge fans and Jeff doesn't know how to pronounce Avey

[nothingmaster]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyd2yhM9w6c

beautiful cover of #1

[hypo's]

nothingmaster wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyd2yhM9w6c

beautiful cover of #1

chef's kiss