A musician collective with a roster sprawling across the country, The Sound of Animals Fighting have staked out a corner of the modern music landscape with their distinct style, shifting pool of guest artists and unique production methods. Founded by a core group of artists, the band-starting with 2005's Tiger and the Duke-reaches out across barriers of genre and medium to up-and-coming and established musicians alike to help build each hand-crafted album. The Sound of Animals Fighting, just like the music it seeks to create, bends, melds, shifts and sways. Their anonymity- the animal names, the masks-isn't about dodging recognition, rather, it's there to help the listener focus on the experience of the music and its creation instead of the personalities behind it.
They return with their visionary, highly conceptual third collaboration: The Ocean and the Sun. A tinkering, rewiring and experimentation with modern and traditional music forms, the endlessly inventive album tacks toward a ghostly, natural energy in both its organic production (this is the third piecemeal assembly of the Lynx, the Walrus, the Skunk and the Nightingale) and its subject: the raw vastness of nature, the Sun, the ocean, and how we fail to recognize its power and mystery. Both a mash-up of decades of musical influences and a visceral, fine-tuned mosaic, The Ocean and the Sun further galvanizes the band's role in the creation and rethinking of what music will and should be.
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Thanks for the add... can't wait for the new album!! keep puttin em out and ill keep buyin em... not to mention spread the word for the common good of mankind... TSOAF POR VIDA!!
Im done with your cocktease Rich, give me the shit and we can all go home happy. I wouldnt be surprised if its the first album all put to decibal 3 reverb and played backwards.
Fuck yeah they were! I was at the show tonight in Dallas and got fuckin' rocked by Rx Bandits and Portugal The Man alike, both were incredible. The energy during Rx's set was insane! I managed to get Matt Embree's set list. :)
I've been looking forward to a release date forever~~ I went on Wikipedia just about every hour to check if they had anything new. And when I heard 998 I gasmed. =D
You guys are the best thing I have ever heard in my life.
It's like an orgasm for the ears. Rich and Anthony's sick ass contrasted singing; Matt and his fucking ridiculously awesome riffs and rhythms, and of course Chris and his insane drum skills.
I am dying here, waiting for the Ocean and the Sun.
!!!!! you guys are amazing !!!!! whens the next album coming out? i know you guys are probly busy with all your other bands and stuff but you should make some more tsoaf songs!! cause they're so awesome!
