Noah Lennox truly radiates apart from his Animal Collective cohorts. For his third solo project jaunt (released in March of this year) Panda Bear’s influences stand at the forefront and they shimmer. Lennox’s beguiling pinwheel of found sounds—elevator shafts, freeway underpasses, hooting owls, and lethargic ocean water—mesh nicely with his usual Brian Wilson vocal posturing. On the 12-minute centerpiece “Bros” vocal chants swirl in a warm harmonic ether. “Take Pills” adds levity to a song that for all projected rationales seems to be about drug abuse. The hypnotism is found in the details on “I’m Not.”
As it slowly turns, it fuses Gregorian chant-like synthesizers with Lennox’s washed-out vocals. Lennox’s experimentations are planted firmly in real expressions. As his filtered voice, backward vocal loops and a bazaar of instrumentation (electronic or otherwise) push his seven disparate masterpieces along Person Pitch slowly becomes less of a lesson in mimicry but something entirely situated in the 21st century. Lennox’s palpably terrestrial rhythms corkscrew his new album’s Technicolor skies. He’s firmly vaulted himself to a place alongside his influencers with hazy psychedelics.
Panda Bear “Bros”
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