[lucasmoreira]

robgnarr wrote:

mr boom, i'm curious since the title of the title is panda bear meets the grim reaper, is the album gonna largely focus on the theme of death? because cosplay certainly doesnt fit the vibe that i picture from the album title.

but he changed the lyrics

[songtungs]

Hey sonic, if you're reading this just want to say loved your work with Tomboy and also MGMT's Congratulations (one of my favorite albums ever). Really looking forward to hearing what comes out this time around! Peace

[preacherben]

also if cosplay is still the last track it would work cause PB is clint eastwood

"Don't you wanna...make my day?" gunshot

[preacherben]

DIrty Harry VI: Tomboy

[atthetopsoftrees]

Hi Sonic!

Can you tell us if this track has evolved into anything for the album?


Also, this article (http://i.imgur.com/m1CP6RK.png) says that most of the new songs are constructed out of self-made samples, but so far we have been able to pick out quite a bit of appropriated samples. How much of the new material is made of new, Panda-made sounds vs samples sourced from others?

[dio]

Bet pandy's gonna try and tell us he came up with that Tchaikovsky riff..

[GeckoSushi]

atthetopsoftrees wrote:

Hi Sonic!

Also, this article (http://i.imgur.com/m1CP6RK.png) says that most of the new songs are constructed out of self-made samples, but so far we have been able to pick out quite a bit of appropriated samples. How much of the new material is made of new, Panda-made sounds vs samples sourced from others?

Yea I've been kind of confused about this too. So far everything I've heard sounds like its appropriated from something else. Maybe they got their facts wrong.

[Zero Cool]

lucasmoreira wrote:

hey sonic, can you give us more references for the new album besides 9th Wonder?

Yeah! I really want to know where I should start to listen to 9th Wonder - What are those "beat tapes"/instrumentals?

[terrestrialjane]

Panders just on the weed folks.

[TetsuoUnderFire]

songtungs wrote:

Hey sonic, if you're reading this just want to say loved your work with Tomboy and also MGMT's Congratulations (one of my favorite albums ever). Really looking forward to hearing what comes out this time around! Peace

Woah woah woah. Sonic Boom produced Congratulations? That is seriously one of my favorite albums of all time.

[keith!]

panda bear meets the grim reaper will be the first album of the post-Benji era

[Akaio]

What.

[Wilbur]

This was important and everything, but it's just time to move forward.





EDIT: Ohhhhhh, that album, lol

[Zero Cool]

I've been searching the discography of 9th Wonder and I found these titles in the section "Instrumentals"

Does anyone know if these are the Instrumentals/Beat Tapes that Panda was talking about in the interview?

2005 - Unreleased Instrumentals Vol. 1
2005 - Unreleased Instrumentals Vol. 2
2005 - Unreleased Instrumentals Vol. 3
2006 - Battle of the Beats Round 1-2 (with The Alchemist & DJ E.Nyce)
2007 - Instrumentals
2007 - Unreleased Instrumentals

Here's a song from Unreleased Instrumentals Vol. 1

[geraldine]

keith! wrote:

panda bear meets the grim reaper will be the first album of the post-Benji era

It's kind of funny cuz both albums are "death-centric".

Also if anybody wants to talk shit about Benji they had better SAY IT TO MY FACE.

[MFpotus]

BENJI IS SHITTTT

[coollodges]

Akaio wrote:

What.

what is benji? what are you all talking about?

[GeckoSushi]

Benji ain't shit next to Air Bud.

[colin]

those beats remind me of exile as in blu & exile

[geraldine]

coollodges wrote:

Akaio wrote:

What.

what is benji? what are you all talking about?

An album.
A really good one.
By Sun Kil Moon.

[Stigmata89]

geraldine wrote:

coollodges wrote:

Akaio wrote:

What.

what is benji? what are you all talking about?

An album.
A really good one.
By Sun Kil Moon.

Come on now, Benji is not that good. If it wasn't for Pitchfork, no one would care about the album.

[geraldine]

I can understand thinking that if you didn't listen to it.
If you did, you must either be stone-hearted or just dense.

[Stigmata89]

geraldine wrote:

I can understand thinking that if you didn't listen to it.
If you did, you must either be stone-hearted or just dense.

I've listened to it, and really, it's just not that good. It sounds like just another folk album to me, albeit one with some real cringe-inducing lyrics. Here's a couple examples that stand out:
"Mary Anne was my first fuck
She slide down between my legs and oh my god she could suck"
"I got a friend who lives in the desert outside Santa Fe
I'm going to visit him this Saturday"
"And I looked at the walls cluttered with sports bar shit. Sports bar shit sports bar shit sports bar shit"

Real progressive stuff, huh. These are only a couple snippets I found scattered amongst this shit pile of lyricism. Don't get me wrong, the sound isn't bad, but for a folk album to be actually good it should have some decent song-writing to back it up. Honestly, I've seen more emotional and coherent writing come from random kids on Tumblr then what Sun Kil Moon tries to pull off here.

....Back to being on topic. Anyways, can't wait til Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper haha. Hopefully, we'll get a few more gifts from the gods.

[jfw7]

Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper

[colin]

that sun kil mon guy looks like a date raper

[geraldine]

Stigmata89 wrote:

geraldine wrote:

I can understand thinking that if you didn't listen to it.
If you did, you must either be stone-hearted or just dense.

I've listened to it, and really, it's just not that good. It sounds like just another folk album to me, albeit one with some real cringe-inducing lyrics. Here's a couple examples that stand out:
"Mary Anne was my first fuck
She slide down between my legs and oh my god she could suck"
"I got a friend who lives in the desert outside Santa Fe
I'm going to visit him this Saturday"
"And I looked at the walls cluttered with sports bar shit. Sports bar shit sports bar shit sports bar shit"

Real progressive stuff, huh. These are only a couple snippets I found scattered amongst this shit pile of lyricism. Don't get me wrong, the sound isn't bad, but for a folk album to be actually good it should have some decent song-writing to back it up. Honestly, I've seen more emotional and coherent writing come from random kids on Tumblr then what Sun Kil Moon tries to pull off here.

....Back to being on topic. anyway, can't wait til Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper haha. Hopefully, we'll get a few more gifts from the gods.

Obviously, whether or not music is good is subjective, but you really thought the lyrics were a "shit pile"? Just because he has a wordy, direct, stream-of-consciousness style of lyricism doesn't make it bad, just different from the average metaphor-laden folk album. I actually think it's innovative in that regard.
Also, you just completely disregard his observations on aging, family, love, life, and mortality and take a few of his lyrics out of context and dismiss them as "cringe-inducing", whatever that's supposed to mean. That's pretty close-minded.

colin wrote:

that sun kil mon guy looks like a date raper

What a quality post.

[colin]

wrote:

colin wrote:

that sun kil mon guy looks like a date raper

What a quality post.

u guys should take ur epic art debate to that benji thread u just made

ur like "this music is good" then ur like "talk shit about it to me!" then ur like "music isnt good or bad its just about taste" now ur like "u guys r dumb"

[Stigmata89]

Obviously this is all just my opinion, but if you're going to focus on themes of, "aging, family, love, life, and mortality", give me more then this high-school worthy songwriting. Just because he's focusing on such deep and profound topics, doesn't make the delivery of it any less laughable.

And when I say cringe-inducing I mean just that. Tell me that you can read the lyrics I posted it and think, "Hmmm, yeah, what exemplary songwriting here. He really knocked it out of the park." No, of course not. I may not have posted the entire excerpts of the song lyrics, since I don't want to be overloading the Panda Bear thread with countless of mediocre sun kil moon lyrics, but nonetheless, even with the full lyrics it still sounds like something a kid on Tumblr would muster up. Sure, you may call it direct, but I call it lazy.

[MFpotus]

geraldine wrote:

Stigmata89 wrote:

geraldine wrote:

I can understand thinking that if you didn't listen to it.
If you did, you must either be stone-hearted or just dense.

I've listened to it, and really, it's just not that good. It sounds like just another folk album to me, albeit one with some real cringe-inducing lyrics. Here's a couple examples that stand out:
"Mary Anne was my first fuck
She slide down between my legs and oh my god she could suck"
"I got a friend who lives in the desert outside Santa Fe
I'm going to visit him this Saturday"
"And I looked at the walls cluttered with sports bar shit. Sports bar shit sports bar shit sports bar shit"

Real progressive stuff, huh. These are only a couple snippets I found scattered amongst this shit pile of lyricism. Don't get me wrong, the sound isn't bad, but for a folk album to be actually good it should have some decent song-writing to back it up. Honestly, I've seen more emotional and coherent writing come from random kids on Tumblr then what Sun Kil Moon tries to pull off here.

....Back to being on topic. anyway, can't wait til Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper haha. Hopefully, we'll get a few more gifts from the gods.

Obviously, whether or not music is good is subjective, but you really thought the lyrics were a "shit pile"? Just because he has a wordy, direct, stream-of-consciousness style of lyricism doesn't make it bad, just different from the average metaphor-laden folk album. I actually think it's innovative in that regard.
Also, you just completely disregard his observations on aging, family, love, life, and mortality and take a few of his lyrics out of context and dismiss them as "cringe-inducing", whatever that's supposed to mean. That's pretty close-minded.

colin wrote:

that sun kil mon guy looks like a date raper

What a quality post.

oh just a whole slew of quality posts up in here. thanks a lot keith!

yo lets move this discussion down to the koz thread

[colin]

ya thanks keith u mastertrollbater

[Akaio]

geraldine wrote:

An album.
A really good one.
By Sun Kil Moon.

lol

[GeckoSushi]

anyone have thoughts on the new St. Vincent, Angel Olsen and Real Estate records while we're at it?

[dud]

idk the names, but the one with the lyrics 'only you can fill those spaces … it might seem we're making songs, but we're really making noise' is the one i'm most excited for by far

[clayton]

the track formerly known as tribe vibes

just like a colour wheel spinning slowly increeeheesin

[William H. Macy]

the two newest ones

(vacuum cleaner jam / "other")

[keith!]

yeah my benji post was a joke about them both dealing with death

but benji is a masterpiece (but koz is one of my fave dudes)

[lonecyclone]

most looking forward to please don't go. also i am really hoping he pulls off shut up, because i love the way he uses that sample. just not one hundred percent feeling it on the vocal melody. i'm looking forward to the entire album, front to back in my car cd player for a month or two straight.

[BenPup]

Track 6 onwards on atp boot is soooo good.

[jfw7]

also tracks 1-5

[cody]

i think "heart and soul," "take care," "can't go back" and "triple eye" are gonna be some of my favorite panda jams yet unless he completely changes them in the studio

i want to love "dark cloud" but i feel like it needs more parts to it