ATP happened this weekend outside of New York, and it sounds like everyone who went had a great time. Panda Bear played a rare non-AnCo show, and there’s a pretty nice bootleg that’s spreading it’s way through all the blogs pretty quickly. He played some Animal Collective tracks, some of his own work, the remix [...]
Music fans currently playing Merriweather Post Pavilion on repeat and thirsting after any new Animal Collective tracks available should switch from a one-track to a two-track mind. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly Online, Noah Lennox - better known as Panda Bear - stated that he plans to start recording a follow-up to 2007’s Person Pitch in late September. Person Pitch was one of.
Los Amparito, our MAP pick this month keeps delivering fantastic material, and for those who enjoyed the remixes for María y José ("Corazón Corazón") and Animal Collective ("Brothersport"), make sure to download the remix for Panda Bear's "Bros", one of my favorite songs of the decade from Person Pitch, one of my favorite albums of the decade. Los Amparito made a cumbia out of it, sounds like
Video: Panda Bear - "Take Pills" Two years (to the week!) after the release of Person Pitch, Paw Tracks releases a trippy new video for "Take Pills." Who knew pandas had such long tails? Directed by Brian DeGraw. Panda Bear:...
Pepepe (Carlos Pesina), one of our favourite artists around here, who should already be one of yours if you read the blog quite frequently, just remixed a Panda Bear track.Yeah, you read it right, and guess what track he remixed?That's right. "Bros". He couldn't have picked a better track to remix nor could he have done a better job on the remix. It is so cheerful and full of celebratory energy...
Person Pitch, the latest and best effort from Panda Bear (Animal Collective's Noah Lennox) crackles open with "Comfy in Nautica", a joyful piece of Southern Baptist tent revivalism crossed with the best parts of Pet Sounds.Lennox samples repetitive musical figures (a looped choir belting out "Try!") and sounds of modern transportation (trains, boats, racecars?) to mesmerizing melodic effect, mu...
I know this album was released last year, but I figured that peeps in Australia might like to check it out to escape the onset of a cold and grey winter. However, if you're on the other side of the world this album could just as easily become your summer jam. Person Pitch evokes 1970's Big M commercials - hazy memories of bronzed teenagers with sunshine sparkling off their golden hair, and beac...
What are you listening to these days, old chum?Since you ask, Panda Bear. Are they a band?No, an actual panda bear. He's in a cage on my desk. I feed him bamboo shoots and coffee and he sings the blues. Of course, they're a band.Sarky. I was only making conversation. Any use, this band?A lot of use. I've been listening to their album Perfect Pitch for two weeks solid. Unusual for me, 'cos norma...
Holy shit. I just bought the new Panda Bear album Person Pitch on the strength of it's reviews and of the awesomeness of the following video... and my god. It is by far my favorite record this year. Soooo amazing. People. Drop what you are doing and buy this record right freaking now. And then grab tickets to his shows if he's coming to your town because good lord knows they're going to s...
"he did a series of collages on paper and tacked them up on the wall of his den, but Lucille, who had supervised the purchase and interior decoration of their house in Corona, Queens, objected. Armstrong decided to use his extensive library of tapes as a canvas instead, and the result is a collection of some five hundred decorated reel-to-reel boxes, one thousand collages counting front and bac...
I just started the Panda Bear disc, 'Person Pitch' and I haven't gotten past the first track. Wow, this sounds so much like 'Pet Sounds' era Beach Boys...that is not a knock, if you are attempting to pay homage to a particular sound, there are many worse ways to go. Ok...going to go on listen to the rest of the record now, but I love this song, had to share...
What are you listening to these days, old chum?Since you ask, Panda Bear. Are they a band?No, an actual panda bear. He's in a cage on my desk. I feed him bamboo shoots and coffee and he sings the blues. Of course, they're a band.Sarky. I was only making conversation. Any use, this band?A lot of use. I've been listening to their album Perfect Pitch for two weeks solid. Unusual for me, 'cos norma...
Panda Bear chose this special spooky day to release their new video "Comfy In Nautica." It's a lovely laid back skate video (total opposite of the adrenaline rush of most amped up sk8 vids) and the song is a sublimely nice way to transition out of work and into the night.Panda Bear - "Comfy In Nautica":The video was directed by Patrick O'Dell and Sam Salganik.
I interviewed Noah Lennox, otherwise known as Panda Bear, a month or so ago about his new record, the really quite excellent Person Pitch which is officially out this week. I talked to him while he was in Arizona recording the next Animal Collective record and was one of a whole string of interviewers he spoke to that night...but I'm thinking no one else asked him about the owl. Here's a bit ...