Who Could Win a Rabbit?
Hungry bread and butter hustle You’ve been doing it a while, it is only fair Where’s your relaxation? Where’s the time required for your health? ~ Animal Collective, ‘Who Could Win a Rabbit?’ Lyrics by Noah Lennox I was put in mind of this song yesterday after a call-out on the radio for songs themed around rabbits (it was, apparently, the anniversary of the publication of Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit). ‘Who Could Win a Rabbit?’ is track two of Animal Collective’s album Sung Tongs , and is a typically weird, jangly, hooting-and-howling tune from these purveyors of surrealist forest-folkrock from their headiest days of jangle and screech. I often return to Animal Collective at this time of year because they remind me of my days as a fresher back in 2005/06. This was a time pre-Spotify, just on the cusp of music streaming becoming a thing, so we all trooped up to University with choice selections from out CD collections which we would swap around for burning to our various c...