Person Pitch - Panda Bear
As a member of the acclaimed Animal Collective, Noah Lennox (a.k.a. Panda Bear) has for
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years been making music that mixes experimental structures with a pure '60s pop sensibility. On his second solo album of looped and layered experimental post-pop, h...
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As a member of the acclaimed Animal Collective, Noah Lennox (a.k.a. Panda Bear) has for
... more
years been making music that mixes experimental structures with a pure '60s pop sensibility. On his second solo album of looped and layered experimental post-pop, h...
years been making music that mixes experimental structures with a pure '60s pop sensibility. On his second solo album of looped and layered experimental post-pop, he shows considerable skill in crafting songs that retain the essence of psychedelia while having been crafted with loop-based home recording methods. The album's finest moment has to be "Bros," a slowly percolating and unapologetically lovely twelve-and-a-half-minute song. Like Brian Wilson lost in a K-hole, gorgeous harmonies soaked in echo bump up against each other until they reach a rhythmic, fascinating crescendo. Elsewhere, Panda Bear's music tends toward the same effect a tad too much, often without the same transcendent quality. Person Pitch has fabulous moments aplenty, though (as with Captain Beefheart's 1968 Strictly Personal) one does wish that fewer reverb-soaked vocals were used, or that they were used even further, pushed into complete abstract dissociation. --Mike McGonigal
Album Notes: On 2007's PERSONAL PITCH, Animal Collective's Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox) ambles out on his own once again with an album that includes a number of tracks from his 2005-07 singles and EPs. Influenced in part by married bliss, new fatherhood, and a move to Lisbon, Portugal, this bright, buoyant album was recorded largely with samplers, creating a highly textured sound that cements Lennox's status as the Brian Wilson of the freak-folk set. (In fact, his vocal similarities to Wilson are remarkable, as evinced on the percussive opener "Comfy in Nautica.")
Album Reviews: Spin (p.93) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he constant flourishes enhance, rather than obscure, the disc's plentiful catchy bits, giving PERSON PITCH a resonant, off-kilter charm."
Advantages: Early The Cure, classic hits Disadvantages: May not be enough copies for everyone~!
...If you like the sultry tones of Panda eyed Robert Smith, The Cure, this is a classic album which is a must in any respectable Collection.
Earlier recordings are my personal favourite, got a bit poppy towards the end for my liking. Yes I used to dye my hair black and backcomb it too, now I am more sensible, but this music is still great...
This album features the hits The Lovecats, Lets fo to bed, and all the other songs are great too, well worth the small investment:
here is the track listing:
1.: Let's Go To Bed
2.: Walk
3.: Love Cats
4.: Dream
5.: Just One Kiss
6.: Upstairs Room
7.: Lament
8.: Speak My Language
And such a bargain at these prices too.. wow, I paid twice that 10 years ago!
Hope you like it too:)
Heather...
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Advantages: using cello with guitar,calm,blue..... Disadvantages: it's sometimes too blue!
...than most of the other ones! It's very sad and blue.
In a very sad sound close to clarinet, the song starts in a low pitch and the drums play slowly with acoustic and clean electric guitar, the fantastic intro ends when the vocal very smoothly and sadly enters in a low pitch, between the lines a high pitched sound close to clarinet plays some wonderful melodies:
"I'm bleeding in ways of the tire burned
I'm crying in ways of the nightbird
No more is there one to lay by my side
I'm straying in nightmares all the time"
In the chorus a high pitched backing vocal joins:
"A little something I know
A little somewhere I go reminds me of you
To blossom blue is to blossom without you"
A sad solo then:
"I'm breaking but I cannot bear to
I'm staring but I cannot see you
For no more are you to lay by my side
I'm weeping no more then this second time...
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Advantages: moody morbid motifs... Disadvantages: ...below a gruesome patina of black metal
...assaults which never mind raging tempest nor thorny hedge in their prevailing monotony of horrifying fury.
"Nouveau Gloaming" allows no easy listening, goes neither for the special effects craze of modern production standards nor for the mega-grim trve necro kvlt of 'blakk metal ist krieg' nostalgia indulged in by frost-bitten Nordic pandabears from hell, but boldly goes for those spots of middle ground never touched before, the no-man's-land between the trenches of genre divisions, and makes itself un-comfortable in crumbling dugouts against a world dulled down and shell-shocked anew each day with loud commercials for ever new ways of going beyond the limit. From there, they come up to renew a tradition that has been almost forgotten: The Grotesque.
There won't be many who have the nerve to befriend themselves with material as this...
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