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- Summary: The Brooklyn-based collective (on this release, reduced to the duo of Avey Tare and Panda Bear) combine vocal harmonies, a pair of acoustic guitars, and diverse influences into a unique sound on this latest release.
- Record Label: Fat Cat
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 23
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Mixed: 2 out of 23
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Negative: 0 out of 23
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Stunning and dizzying, Sung Tongs strangeness will spin around your head for months to come.
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This is what you get when you give an overactive imagination the space to expand; its indescribably perfect.
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On Sung Tongs, the group has deftly combined all the traces that ran through their earlier work into a vibrant and beautiful collage that flows as smoothly as Here Comes the Indian, with all the mood of Campfire Songs, and even more pop hooks than Spirit.
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But despite its flaws, or perhaps because of them, this remains organic folk-pop at its bewildering best.
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MagnetConsistently fantastic. [#64, p.80]
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Holistically, there's nothing remarkably new here that hasn't been pursued before by this collective. The execution is nice and easily situates this album in the top two of their performances, and the sound quality far surpasses their previous efforts.
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You can imagine a modern-day Syd Barrett coming up with similar ideas after being locked in a closet with a laptop.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 27 out of 34
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Mixed: 4 out of 34
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Negative: 3 out of 34
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TonyFJul 13, 2006
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JojoDec 1, 2004I give it a 10 based solely in relation to other 2004 releases. This is the album of the year, for sure.
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NickAug 30, 2005Leaf House may be the best song ever written. Beside that this album evokes all that I love from music. Wholly unique and completely infactuating.
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DonWJun 22, 2004
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PaulJan 13, 2005
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[Anonymous]Mar 4, 2007Starts out great, but the second half kind of loses it, with the exception of "We Tigers". Still a great album, but get Feels. It's much better.
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kyleaMay 9, 2005I absolutely despise these two and everything they stand for. Pretentious art creeps. Go do your heroin away from my eardrums.
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