Here's a pretty amazing live performance from January 2005 of Panda Bear performing the song Bros. In case you don't know, Panda Bear is Noah Lennox from the band Animal Collective. My best description of his music is a Brian Wilson transmitting headphone music from underwater. There are some very beautiful vocals and melodies found in his songs and they are often wrapped/muffled in a blanket of sound. The effect often times is like listening to a song within a song. The single for Bros has been out for almost a year and he has a new album called Person Pitch coming out sometime in March. From what I've heard of this album, it's shaping up to be one of the year's best. Here's some info about the record from his label Paw Tracks
Lennox also recently appeared on Sérgio Hydalgo's Má Fama radio show. He performs a bunch of the new songs and there's an interview at the end of show. Pretty cool stuff. The show can be downloaded at Má Fama's website, http://mafama.blogspot.com.
2 comments:
hey j:
tell me how to appreciate panda bear. what i like of them i really like, but the signal to noise ratio is pretty low, even within songs.
i do love chrome, so i'm used to appreciating noise for noise's sake, but i'm missing something in those pandas.
any ideas?
There are a couple keys for me, especially for the new album. I've been listening to it a lot on headphones which makes the noise/ambient parts that much more interesting. I also guess that for me that a lot of the enjoyment comes from the anticipation of when the jams are going to kick in. It also might not be completely apparent from the stuff I posted but I think that the signal to noise ratio on Person Pitch is higher than usual.
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