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Person Pitch

Article published 9th May 07
Person Pitch Hear

What:
Person Pitch

Who:
Panda Bear

On:
Paw Tracks, Mistletone

Myspace:

Here

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Person Pitch is the ideal title for Noah Lennox's latest record, save maybe The Ecstatic Dreams of an Embryo In and Out of the Cool Ocean. Transmitting live from the Animal Collective member's boyish imagination, it's a restless and colourful record, foggy and crystalline by turns, but always as natural and inevitable sounding as the sun's arc across a clear blue sky. Like all great albums it's got that magic quality of making you feel like you suddenly miss something you've always known, and it's genuinely ‘ambient' in the sense of creating a feeling of the moment.

Like the watershed Richard D. James album, Panda's new sound is a generous birthday present to pop music; its advanced electronics sound both alive and boldly futuristic, like somebody confident and joyous about getting that little bit older. A micro-chopped and FX-heavy zoo of samples sit close to Lennox's clipped-lip choirboy singing, and cartoon adventure field recordings - trains, pelicans et al. - are constantly dipping in and out of the aquatic mix. The songs are long and the production mesmeric: Do the Future Surf Hall Desert Island Dance. 

By Mark Gomes

Release: Album

To Cure: A predictable playlist

Keywords: Bands, Psych, Pop, Electronica

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