[Tropic]

Would be sweet if he took autotuned, up-front vocals and minimalist instrumentation, and combined those with Homies style longer-form songwriting and dancey vibes.

[Tropic]

tdegenaro wrote:

in light of this let's imagine what sick covers Panda Bear could do that would be awesome

The ketchup song

[tulis]

enter the ninja

[terrestrialjane]

new comfy is good
and slow which is
a nice pace , like
chill and yeah
plg is same
and thanks for the
folks up too
better than nothing so far
till we get a leg
distort is sweet

[Tropic]

https://digboston.com/wheel-of-tunes-panda-bear/

This interview rules. And what a great concept too

[Cussing Bum]

might be my favorite panda interview

[Dallou]

wrote:

DIGBOSTON: What’s something you’re bad at but would like to take steps to improve at?


LENNOX: Skateboarding. It’s kinda too late, though; that ship has sailed. [laughs] But I wish I could. I love watching skateboarding videos. I always dream about being able to do that stuff. There’s something about the movement of it all. To me, it’s about achieving these impossible feats. It’s like how a surfer harnesses nature, but a skater gets to harnesses a city in a way. That’s something I’d love to be able to do. The big skate videos are a thing of the past now, or at least it feels that way. Mostly people just upload a few clips to Instagram or Youtube. There was one by Supreme called “Blessed” that came out on Thanksgiving. That’s a recent one that I loved.

Damn, I would love to skate with Noah and teaching him some move, that would be so weird and fun.

[Dallou]

Indeed cool concept and interview !

[BenPup]

i wanna see panda ollie el toro

[Dallou]

BenPup wrote:

i wanna see panda ollie el toro

That would be the end of him and Animal Collective tho.

Id be happy with some ollies on flat, maybe a shovit and some slappy grind.

[BenPup]

lol good point. omg imagine getting to play a game of skate with panda?!

[Dallou]

I am pretty sur it would be possible to create a character that looks like him. Someone needs to do that asap with him wearing a t-shirt with a big ass wolf on it.

[BenPup]

lol i can pull out my old copy of skate 3 and see if i can do it after work today

[jetski]

Dallou wrote:

I am pretty sur it would be possible to create a character that looks like him.

you mean like this?

[Dallou]

But cooler because it's skateboard dude. We skaterboy are hip and shit. y'a dig. There are no rules maaaan. I can smoke a blunt and cruise around dude. Skateboard is freedome. Fuck society for real.

[terrestrialjane]

that bass tho

[jetski]

Dallou wrote:

But cooler because it's skateboard dude. We skaterboy are hip and shit. y'a dig. There are no rules maaaan. I can smoke a blunt and cruise around dude. Skateboard is freedome. Fuck society for real.

[BenPup]

terrestrialjane wrote:

that bass tho

omg lol

[jetski]

^this sounds so sick lol

[Dallou]

soundcloud trap really influenced him a lot.

[Dallou]

review by a famous youtuber.

Spoiler: show

[dio]

lol have NO idea what hes talking about around 4:25ish, when he's talking about "contorted" vocal inflections(?) like give us some example ya dummy.

when reviews don't have any like moments or even many individual songs to call out specifically, im always weirded out and feel like they didn't have give it enough time to reveal like the parts that connect with them personally.

how r u not gonna mention the middle melody of IKIDK or the chorus/pre-chorus in Master. I just dgi idk man.

[roopn]

I know this vid is old news, but I just wathhed it again and now I'm so hungry for a live album mixed like this with everything super up front and loud

Spoiler: show

[Dallou]

if only we could get the full audio of that show (where I was by the way)(obligatory brag)

[roopn]

You were there? That's awesome!

Finally got the chance to play the CD on my dad's stereo system. Having listened to the album obsessively, it's not a mind-blowing difference, but it's definitely awesome having the sound fill the whole room.

Home free is still more and more impressive every time I listen to it attentively. Most mysterious and atmospheric song on the album imo

[Andrew_VB]

terrestrialjane wrote:

that bass tho

holy shit lol

[Cooper]

Blessed by Supreme is an incredible skate video and plays like a full -length feature. So glad Noah likes it and I would recommend it even to non-skaters

[Dallou]

Sometimes the way bill strobeck films is a bit annoying but some parts are out of this world.

[Calamity Pete]

Anyone go to the most recent 930 club show? Should I be kicking myself for sitting it out?

[terrestrialjane]

as long as joy is the plan

[denjanenna]

Calamity Pete wrote:

Anyone go to the most recent 930 club show? Should I be kicking myself for sitting it out?

I still had a great time at this recent 930 show, but I think it was an inferior setlist compared to last year..
'playing the long game' was the saving grace for me personally this past show, that one bumps haaaard
i've seen comfy a few times live, panda solo & AC, so that wasn't too exciting..it loses a lot w/out the choir sample i think, but i dig that he tried something different with it...
also he didn't play buoys or crescendo, those were HUGE highlights from the last show at 930...

soo....

if you went last year, it was not as good as last year imo
if you did NOT go last year, it would've def been worth it to see...

[Angelic Chaos]

Diomedes wrote:

lol have NO idea what hes talking about around 4:25ish, when he's talking about "contorted" vocal inflections(?) like give us some example ya dummy.

when reviews don't have any like moments or even many individual songs to call out specifically, im always weirded out and feel like they didn't have give it enough time to reveal like the parts that connect with them personally.

how r u not gonna mention the middle melody of IKIDK or the chorus/pre-chorus in Master. I just dgi idk man.

No offense to Panda at all, but pretty much all of his vocal inflections are "contorted" in comparison to standard vocal practices of the last several hundred years. It's hard to explain, but if you listen to Token (I'm going to use the time stamps from the video here because it's not on my computer yet) but at 1:20 you can hear Panda say "tuff, wone crumbo", or at 1:30 "get into the beeeelding", "slide in tyoo a warm", and if you listen to the "coldest cold" you can really hear where this anomaly derives from. Panda overly uses the shape of his mouth to achieve the pitch he's going for, which distends the timbre of the vowel, and since resonance is what gives each vowel it's individuality, it can make it sound like a different vowel if you move your mouth more open or closed.

I personally love it, but my ex who's a professional opera singer and vocal coach would always get super picky about how the everyone in Animal Collective sings, and I think PB especially does it to an extreme that some people find weird.

[Calamity Pete]

@denjanenna yea I was there last year... glad I didnt miss that much.. never heard comfy live tho.. would love to but feel like it would have more impact a few years back

[jetski]

Angelic Chaos wrote:

"tuff, wone crumbo"

lol

that's some cool analysis of the vowel sounds. I bet Panda would find that interesting since he's been messing with formant shifting which is kinda similar

[jerry wonder]

Dallou wrote:

review by a famous youtuber.

Spoiler: show

lol I actually hate him for liking it--more than tomboy or greaper. dude just doesn't get it. the repetition in AC's music is what makes it so beautiful for chrissakes. and my humble opinion is correct.

like there's no repetition on SJ which you loved you flipping manatee. or weird vocal experiments either!

make better critique.

totally agree about master tho.

[jerry wonder]

Angelic Chaos wrote:

Diomedes wrote:

lol have NO idea what hes talking about around 4:25ish, when he's talking about "contorted" vocal inflections(?) like give us some example ya dummy.

when reviews don't have any like moments or even many individual songs to call out specifically, im always weirded out and feel like they didn't have give it enough time to reveal like the parts that connect with them personally.

how r u not gonna mention the middle melody of IKIDK or the chorus/pre-chorus in Master. I just dgi idk man.

No offense to Panda at all, but pretty much all of his vocal inflections are "contorted" in comparison to standard vocal practices of the last several hundred years. It's hard to explain, but if you listen to Token (I'm going to use the time stamps from the video here because it's not on my computer yet) but at 1:20 you can hear Panda say "tuff, wone crumbo", or at 1:30 "get into the beeeelding", "slide in tyoo a warm", and if you listen to the "coldest cold" you can really hear where this anomaly derives from. Panda overly uses the shape of his mouth to achieve the pitch he's going for, which distends the timbre of the vowel, and since resonance is what gives each vowel it's individuality, it can make it sound like a different vowel if you move your mouth more open or closed.

I personally love it, but my ex who's a professional opera singer and vocal coach would always get super picky about how the everyone in Animal Collective sings, and I think PB especially does it to an extreme that some people find weird.

distorted compared to what? certain other genres of music for the past hundreds of years? this is like saying all vocal music where you can't discern the words well is distorted/contorted and are not "standard vocal practices". TF does that even mean?

wait was your whole post sarcastic? sounds like it. genius if it was.

[Stanshant]

Sounds to me like I hate your stupid fuckin ex

[denjanenna]

jerry wonder wrote:

distorted compared to what? certain other genres of music for the past hundreds of years? this is like saying all vocal music where you can't discern the words well is distorted/contorted and are not "standard vocal practices". TF does that even mean?

wait was your whole post sarcastic? sounds like it. genius if it was.

he wasn't fucking with you jerry..singers in music schools, conservatories (etc...) are taught to shape their mouths certain ways, how to breathe, when to breathe, posture, and the list goes on. i think he was trying to convey that AC don't adhere to certain standards within the academic mindset

Stanshant wrote:

Sounds to me like I hate your stupid fuckin ex

def why they broke up

[jfw7]

i think even if you ignore the academy you can agree with his point about pb's distinctive vowel shaping. too harsh jerry imo

[Stanshant]

I love AC warped vowels, one of my favourite things about them whereas any opera is shit as fuck