Animal Collective, an experimental pop band from Baltimore, MD, announces a summer 2018 tour playing in Europe, the US and the UK. The tour starts in London on June 12th and ends in Los Angeles, CA on July 31st. The band will be playing songs from their fifth studio album Sung Tongs which has only been played live in its entirety once before at a party in December 2017 for Pitchfork’s 21st birthday. Two of the four band members will be on tour, the same two band members that recorded the album, Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) and Avey Tare (David Portner).
The album Sung Tongs was released on May 3, 2004 by FatCat Records. The album made it onto 2004 and 2000s top-of lists from Pitchfork and Tiny Mix Tapes. In 2017 the band created a multi-track record of their show at College Street in Musical Hall in New Haven, CT. The album Live at College Street Music Hall May 26th 2017 named after the venue of the performance gives fans the option to pay what they want for the album. All of the proceeds from the album will be donated to the organization Direct Relief. The organization helps give aide to those affected by poverty or emergencies. More information on the live album here.
Band members have released their own albums while not touring or recording with the band. Avey Tare, David Portner, released the album Eucalyptus on July 21st, 2017. Another band member that has been working on notable solo work is Panda Bear, Noah Lennox, with the EP album Crosswords released on August 20,2015. The band has released new and old music that was recorded but never released. The band released EP album The Painters on February 13th, 2017. On November 17, 2016 the band released the song ” Mountain Game” that was recorded for the album Red Dead Redemption but did not make the final cut for the album in 2010.
Sung Tongs
1. Leaf House
2. Who Could Win A Rabbit
3. The Softest Voice
4. Winters Love
5. Kids On Holiday
6. Sweet Road
7. Visiting Friends
8. College
9. We Tigers
10. Mouth Wooed Her
11. Good Lovin Outside
12. Whaddit I Done
TOUR DATES
June 12 London Troxy
June 13 Amsterdam Paradiso Noord
June 14 Berlin Heimathafen
June 15 Copenhagen Vega
June 17 Paris Trianon
June 19 Barcelona Sala Apolo
June 20 Madrid Joy Eslava
June 21 Lisbon Teatro Capitolio
June 23 Athens Summer Nostos Festival
July 20 New York Town Hall*
July 21 Washington Lincoln Theatre*
July 23 Austin Paramount Theatre**
July 25 Denver Ogden Theatre**
July 27 Chicago Vic Theatre**
July 29 Seattle The Moore Theatre**
July 30 Oakland Fox Theater**
July 31 Los Angeles The Theatre at Ace Hotel**
*w/ Laraaji
**w/ Lonnie Holley
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