One of my graduation gifts, courtesy of someone who knows someone who has a college radio station, was 2.8 gigabytes of mostly strange music. Hidden deep among those files, amongst A.C. Newman and Akron/Family, was Animal Collective's Sung Tongs. It being 2.8 gigabytes of music, however, I neglected to listen to most of it, and meanwhile Animal Collective found a place in my (oh-so judgemental) subconscious as vaguely hipster and probably annoying. So it was to my surprise that when I listened to it finally a few weeks ago I liked it. It was a perfect soundtrack to skate-skiing through northern Vermont, serene and slightly off in a charming way. Here's a strange but wonderful video to who could win a rabbit:
