THE SOUND OF ANIMALS FIGHTING ‘TIGER AND THE DUKE' LP

LABEL: Equal Vision
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 7/14/2023
VARIANT: Black Vinyl LP

Two months before Anthony Green released his first album with Circa Survive, he lent his voice to the debut album by the supergroup/collective The Sound of Animals Fighting. Circa Survive had a progressive take on post-hardcore that veered towards atmospheric psychedelia, but TSOAF took a more traditionally prog approach and they also honored the "hardcore" part of "post-hardcore" more than Circa. Some of the gnarliest screams of Anthony Green's career are on this album, and the band -- which on this album featured three RX Bandits members and two Finch members -- churned out some of the most kickass proggy post-hardcore riffs of the 2000s on this LP. TSOAF may have been second fiddle to the members' main bands as far as live shows went (their tours remain rare), but they took this band way too seriously in the studio for it to be considered a "side project." Tiger and the Duke was one of the most unique albums to come out of this whole scene at the time, and there's still almost nothing that sounds like it.