The Story Behind Every Song On Animal Collective’s Sung Tongs

For as confident as Dave Portner and Noah Lennox sound on Sung Tongs, the path to the record may very well have been the most trying time for Animal Collective. “We were a little bit at odds,” Lennox (aka Panda Bear) said of the year leading up to the revered acoustic pivot for the band, which turned 20 earlier this year. “We were hitting it pretty hard. On the Ark tours, the van kept breaking down, and we had to spend a lot of money to fix it up.”

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