Panda Bear - Person Pitch
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Free Music Review: A landmark album.
Hit: 5 Stars
Listening to this album as an Animal Collective fan, I was surprised by this album. Of course, I was expecting it to be a mind-bending and experimental album. However, I did not expect that it would be on of the best albums I'd heard in the contemporary music scene. It is the absolute apex of mixing jarring experimentalism with shiny 60's pop melodies. Brian Wilson on a ketamine bender: that's more or less the best way to describe it. Absolutely perfect, not a wasted moment on this album. Essential listening for anyone even mildly interested.Free Music Review: utterly original
Hit: 4 Stars
I really like Animal Collective (when they're not confounding the hell out of me) but had no idea at all bold and sweet and wild Panda Bear's second solo disc would be until a good friend told me I had to give a listen. A great, great surprise, this has been a perfect album to crank while alone in the house and feeling exponential. If you can't hear it I'm sorry, it's been a gift for me...Free Music Review: Panda Bear V. The ghost of Robert Palmer
Hit: 1 Stars
Panda Bear:This administration has got some nerve--
Robert Palmer: You're lights are on but you're not home.
Panda Bear:Hey who said that I was about to lay into my analysis of this country's impending cultural decay.
Robert Palmer: You see the signs but you can't read.
Panda Bear: Oh how lame, you're singing in key.
Robert Palmer:You know you're gonna have to face it your addicted to love.
Panda Bear: You call that artfully obtuse, you sound like my dad imitating Bryan Ferry.
(Robert Palmer takes the form of a panther and lunges at Panda Bear)
Free Music Review: Try
Hit: 4 Stars
Thank heavens for Noah Lennox. His follow-up to the excellent Young Prayer LP is its complete inverse: maximal where the prior was minimal, cheerful instead of mournful, more influenced by dub and electronica than folk. And yet both albums are great.
Person Pitch begins with "Comfy in Nautica", which both defines the album's sound and provides an accessible jumping-off point, like any good opener should. To get an idea of what the sound is like this time around, picture Brian Wilson singing in the middle of a car factory somewhere in the middle of Africa, with drums and noises from outside sometimes working their way into the mix, and the occasional guest appearance by some thick, dubby basslines.
"Comfy in Nautica" itself is pretty simple; some clattering industrial percussion, a towering looped vocal sample and Lennox's heavily reverbed vocals. These same elements show up repeatedly elsewhere on the album, but thankfully there's much more to it than just that. Take, for instance, the ferocious tabla opener to "Good Girl/Carrots", the second of two twelve-minute epics on the album, and one of my favorite tracks. This is followed by a loping, easy section. The lyrics here seem to reference Mitch Hedburg, before breaking off into a gentle debate with a music snob who's attempting to put Lennox down. Then the track drifts underwater, accompanied by chimes and heavy bass as Panda exhorts us to "Take a risk just for yourselves/and wade into the deepest of the oceans". The track ends on an exultant note, the shimmering chimes drawing it to its close.
In fact, I'm pretty sure Person Pitch is worth buying for "Carrots" alone. But other tracks like the whirling, giddy guitar jam of "Bros" and the smooth echoes of "I'm Not" are equally elating. It's easily the happiest album released this year, and probably the most conventionally listenable thing any member of Animal Collective has ever created.
Free Music Review: honesty
Hit: 4 Stars
The hype for Person Pitch is ablaze and acclaim for Panda Bear's follow up to the underrated Young Prayer now carries more words than most modern novels. Regardless, it is up to you to defend yourself from being won over by the majority and make sure your opinion of Person Pitch is yours. You know, you don't have to love everything any Animal Collective member produces. Panda Bear's third album sees him trading in the eternal acoustic strumming of previous albums to the knobs of a mixer. Spanning seven tracks of various length Person Pitch is one of the most deservedly (however overplayed the comparison is) labeled Brian-Wilson-influenced album to come out of the Paw Tracks camp. Using the genuinely beautiful harmonies that defined his influences along with slowly evolving repetitious samples Panda Bear has molded seven extended pop songs. The effortless nature and drowsy comfort these songs embody somehow maintain an attention span but not too much more. There is nothing overtly groundbreaking here nor is there a particularly evocative melody climactic experience; just pleasantness. So, while enjoyable and recommended, for the over-hyped explorer: don't expect the mind-blowing power Sung Tongs.