Sung Tongs Live at the Theatre at Ace Hotel is a recording of the June 1, 2018 concert in Los Angeles where Avey Tare and Panda Bear performed Sung Tongs in full as part of a 15th anniversary tour. In honor of Sung Tongs' 20th anniversary, this live show is now available to preorder on limited edition neon orange and light green 2LP, housed in a gatefold jacket.
Sung Tongs marked the beginning of a prolific five year period in which Animal Collective went on to release their game-changing albums Feels (2005), Strawberry Jam (2007) and Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009). At the time of Sung Tongs’ release, Rolling Stone called it “one of the more creative and accomplished records you’ll hear this year,” adding, “Their songs cackle with soulful eccentricity while dazzling you with deceptive chops and improvised manipulations.” Pitchfork later named it one of the best albums of the 2000s, raving, “Sung Tongs is an emotionally thrilling record, impossibly giddy and fully-charged with big, raucous enthusiasm: Acoustic strums and wild, flailing voices (including some mind-blowing harmonies by vocalists Avey Tare and Panda Bear) coalesce into something sublimely weird and undeniably beautiful.”