[pullhairdownthere]

I want to fucking die

[stash]

sorry you feel that way i hope things can get better for you

[foxtrot]

Not sure if that’s just a casual reference of some kind or a joke. If you’re serious, please reach out for some help. People love you.

[stash]

over the past year & a half i think about the brilliante boot a lot and the tomboy live shows

[pullhairdownthere]

I have literally no recollection of posting that but I assure you it was boozy hyperbolic jest in anticipation of SINISTER GRIFT

[pullhairdownthere]

Sinister JEST

[destiny]

kefka strikes again

[natios]

what do yall prefer the madrid practice or the actual show?

[roopn]

actual show by far

[tdegenaro]

oh yeah 1000% the actual show, the bass and overall quality are so much better

[destiny]

I like the practice a little more, i always go back to the token in there. sounds a little less stiff?

[jordanrandall]

Deakin is engineering the album. He'll be in Portugal helping Noah record the album over the next couple of months. Can't wait to hear this!!

[rohcti]

Aw f yeah

[roopn]

rohcti wrote:

Aw f yeah

[tdegenaro]

god yes.

[meys]

let's goooooooo

[awesome]

jordanrandall wrote:

Deakin is engineering the album. He'll be in Portugal helping Noah record the album over the next couple of months. Can't wait to hear this!!

sweet! where'd you see/hear that?

[andthephantom]

jordanrandall wrote:

Deakin is engineering the album. He'll be in Portugal helping Noah record the album over the next couple of months. Can't wait to hear this!!

sweet - so that means, what, Fall 2025 release?

[blindmowing]

jordanrandall wrote:

Deakin is engineering the album. He'll be in Portugal helping Noah record the album over the next couple of months. Can't wait to hear this!!

when's your interview drop? please post it here in case i forget to look for it

[awesome]

pb just said in the reddit ama he has 13 (!) songs he wants to record for this

[blindmowing]

ya, super awesome, that was my question -- was glad he answered it. very exciting... maybe even more if they have time, sounds like

[rohcti]

That's crazy that we might not have even heard a third of this. And what we have is bangers

[Tropic]

No surprise this thing has expanded given his work rate. The Deakin factor is especially exciting. PB's down there?

[nothingmastered]

Great to see Deak show some confidence with his mixing skills and intuition. Everything he's worked on sounds fantastic. Eucalyptus, BtQ, 123 are standouts for me

[opposite field]

What do we think this thing is gonna sound like? PB rock record finally?

[tdegenaro]

however it goes, i hope it is more like greaper than buoys. loved the blend of styles in the madrid boot, so i'm confident this is going to be an all-time classic.

the deakin touch really adds a lot of exciting possibilities!

[hedgecore]

From the snippets I heard it reminded me a lot of guitar based music from Africa (and other parts of the world probably) In the vein of high life or something but with less musicians? Maybe more stripped down like this - https://youtu.be/ksoa7jSimtI?si=qx4EcBU7fMzWFYrp

( i could be totally misinformed on what this material sounds like, I gotta revisit the boots)

[blindmowing]

Panda also said Buoys is like a restart for him and that it’s a jumping off place for his future albums

I’m expecting more minimal arrangements and maybe different kinds of production on his voice than we are used to from pre 2019 PB

[andthephantom]

I'm not saying the whole thing is gonna sound like Young Prayer. But I'm betting there are tracks that sound more like YP than anything we've heard from him since then. The Madrid boots (which, admittedly, are the only boots I've listened to and not very much) seem like there is potential for there to be a lot of space left open and a lot of stripped back songs and plaintive vox.

[foxtrot]

I’m imagining stuff more like Tomboy (the song). Jangly/droney reverbed guitar and big skeletal beats. Again, this is based on limited listens to Madrid boots.

[Dusty]

As someone who has always been a bit meh on YP but has always been a huge Buoys defender, I’m psyched to see him potentially following that more open, formless psych folk tangent, especially with based deak on the production side. If we could get some Down There style vocal effects on Panda’s voice on this one that would be unreal

[roopn]

foxtrot wrote:

I’m imagining stuff more like Tomboy (the song). Jangly/droney reverbed guitar and big skeletal beats.

agreed on this. I think sonically it will be less grey and all-consuming than tomboy, but that's a good signpost of what this record's basic ingredients are likely to be. deakin producing is a real x factor though, no idea how that might manifest in the end product

tantalising to know he's got 13 songs now. ever since the madrid boot I've kinda been expecting sinister grift to be like homies, just 5 or 6 beefy songs that chill in the groove for a while. the four new songs from the madrid boot were all at least 4:30 so we are hopefully looking at a tomboy-length lp at least. I love how that show drifted between big hooky drum machine songs and totally amorphous ballads. I hope that's how the LP will sound too, but with so many new songs it's really anyone's guess at this stage. not to mention the madrid show was two years ago (!) now so he must have written so much new stuff since then.

[nothingmastered]

Very excited for this. I hope he wrote one that's even more amorphous than left in the cold or s of e. Like 2004 style. Like that version of Inner Monologue he played

[foxtrot]

can't come soon enough

[rohcti]

Left in the Cold is already one of his best songs. I'm sure it'll be fantastic. Slightly more interested to hear how poppier (but still top quality) stuff like Religious Bop differs in studio

[tealtimes]

This album is going to predict/pre-date the coming of "Guitar House" just like Person Pitch did for "Chillwave." Ends Meet has this Tropicália-meets-Detroit-techno thing going for it, I hope the drum machine makes it to the studio.

[muark]

God, Ends Meet and Religious Bop have been on repeat for the past two days. Can't get enough of the bendy acoustasonic/drum machine combo, sounds so definitively Pandaesque but in a really refreshing way.

[blindmowing]

muark wrote:

God, Ends Meet and Religious Bop have been on repeat for the past two days. Can't get enough of the bendy acoustasonic/drum machine combo, sounds so definitively Pandaesque but in a really refreshing way.

me too! today Religious Bop is my fave

i hope he really accentuates the bendy guitar fx in studio and i hope the drum machines are loud as fuck in the mix, but would deakin do that? would love this to have a really gnarly, sharp and thick sound that keeps it primitive/minimalist....skeletal huge beats like foxtrot mentioned.

i'm hopeful this could be out fall 2024

[curleyswirley]

He's referred to the material as the "bendy guitar stuff" so I trust the bends will be bendy and prominent

[preakness]

curleyswirley wrote:

He's referred to the material as the "bendy guitar stuff" so I trust the bends will be bendy and prominent

was just listening to ends meet and thinking about how cool the studio version will be with the delay shifts and stuff. panda bear has always been a master of echo and delay, and has a particularly strong command on the effects both live and in studio. Them being applied heavily to acoustic guitar and it being central to this album very much excites me. TBH i kind of missed the lack of echo/delay on TS + IIN