Tomboy, the new Panda Bear album from Noah Lennox, will be premiered before its release on April 12 at ‘listening parties’, in record shops around the country.
Tomboy is to be a move away from the heavy sample use found in Lennox’s recent releases both as Panda Bear with Person Pitch in 2007, and as part of Animal Collective with Merriweather Post Pavilion. The new album is being described instead as having a more prominent focus on guitar and rhythm, referencing influences from Nirvana and the White Stripes, to the Baltimore R&B he heard growing up.
The release of the album as a series of individual singles on different labels last year means that the anticipation surrounding this release of the work as a whole has been building for some time. To be one of the first to hear whether it meets expectation there will be three Tomboy listening parties before the release:
April
4 – Piccadilly Records, Manchester at 5pm
4 – Resident, Brighton at 6pm
11 – Monorail, Glasgow at 11pm (With the album available to buy from 12pm)
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