Collected Animals

I would add that my P4K review of Bouys is that it is both a sonic look to the future, which is one of Panda Bear's strongest gifts

Spoiler: show

a gift that also happens to be what sets Peebs apart from Avey as a songwriter #hottake

while simultaneously returning to the Bear's precious roots. There is exactly enough Sung Tongs-era tuning strummed on a timid guitar in harmony with weird future computer shit to make Bouys what should be a classic, career defining middle-album: mana for new and old Panda Bear fans, and more to wit: a tease for the long and satisfying second half of a career to come.

Its honest, its tight, its well produced, and Panda's best instrument: his fucking angelic voice gets exquisite attention. I wish it was longer, but I wish that because I am a selfish piece of shit, not because it is too short.

9.3/10

This is excellent, captured the p4k essence well
Also pls remove the tweet from ur sig, it's giant

^lol needed to be said

setlist tonight was surprising:

Wuuuuuuutt

That's wild!

setlist tonight was surprising:

Spoiler: show

all of homies, 5 songs from buoys, crosswords, comfy in nautica, and a new song

haha here's the full version https://dbr.ee/oyCu
tried uploading to soundcloud but got hit with the copyright notice

omg this is so good

why are they saying it's his 4th album. Young Prayer exist and the self titled too.

Hope someone has a boot from that show !

That's actually a very good review and sums up a number of my own thoughts. It's a very personal record that perhaps resonates more with me because I'm old. For some young bastard who thinks Greaper is his best album, I can understand the disappointment but I hope they regret their stupidity when they're in the damn grave.

curious bout this new song

im not young - not a old fat too - but i much prefer the greaper material, it goes to so much different places, the production is so detailed and crafted, i can still hear new sonds there to this day. he couldnt be better as a songwriter, making songs around classical music (cancer/lonely wanderer), minimal structures (selfish gene/sequencial), bangers (ctys/mr.noah), signing with himself (boys latin), experimental shit (principe) and im not even talking about faces, paradise, untying... so much stuff, i love that album! i guess ignorance is really a bless haha

it was also an incredible era full with amazing videos, websites, gifs.. it felt huge!

buoys is a fantastic album but i do feel is missing a key component: atmosphere. the only song that get some sense of background is inner monologue, and for a guy that once used skateboard noises to construct a song around, thats sad. I actually feel that buoys is very similar in terms of production style with painting with.. quick songs with no much reverb and very clean intrumentals.

I ageee lucas.. greaper was the shit.... but im glad hes trying new things even if its far from perfect.. its better to have something different than nothing at all.. plus who knows how he'll build on this sound.

Putting aside the number rating (which is a schtick if anything) I found the p4k review surprising. It highlights two important things for me 1) Why this album is quickly becoming one of my fav Panda Bear albums and 2) why I’ve felt awkward/hesitant trying to listen to this album with anyone else in the room.

I also think it’s the lack of atmosphere on these songs that I appreciate so much. The review described the guitar as disembodied—a concept that helps explain something for me: despite how isolated this project’s vibe is, there’s this (maybe only semi-plausible) hope that breaches the isolation to connect to the listener.

That's actually a very good review and sums up a number of my own thoughts. It's a very personal record that perhaps resonates more with me because I'm old. For some young bastard who thinks Greaper is his best album, I can understand the disappointment but I hope they regret their stupidity when they're in the damn grave.

having been that young bastard circa 2014-2017 I deeply respect and know this take, despite not yet being dead.

I'm glad they gave the reviewing job to Mark--he has been an AC lover at Pitchfork since forever. Pretty much agree with the review, but wish Token got more lovin.

Damn greaper was a time--I got so lost in my own world when I first heard BL and CTYS. Those shows were epic and I was (why did i fly) sooooo high.

lucas i think your idea about this as a "foreground" album is kind of interesting! the lyrics, the vocals, the music, everything is much closer to the front on most of the tracks than ever before. it really distinguishes it from some the last 3 albums (hasn't he grouped them together as a trilogy?) but also means it's completely fine to prefer one or the other. just don't discount it for that reason imo

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/panda_b ... sung_tongs

I probably wrote more songs last year than I've ever written in my life

crazy (young) man.
(smile)
(love)

I agree about the pitchfork review.. I try to stay away from reviews in general these days but my curiosity got the best of me.. the notion of "better times that might not come" (paraphrase) articulated a certain quality of the album well

Hopes to record another solo record this year, sweet

another good interview with Panda (50 minute podcast)

https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/02/ ... anda-bear/

dont know if anyone listened to this.. he talks about wanting to make an album in jamaica!

Long time coming, they wanted to record MPP there!

hope we get an EP during the year, that would be tight.

Dang, Buoys promotions are way more than I expected. Santos posted a Buoys billboard in his stories.

he's doing an AMA

the lack of a physical atmosphere really doesn’t matter in this album to me. Really as long as the melody is good in a song is what actually makes it good music for me. If the melody isn’t good it has to be some amazing textures

he's doing an AMA

Fuck yes ! Love those things

New track was called Playing the Long Game

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS1D4Y7bUEM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1nRPlVgNNbRdI4ucG6w1OlxADP3GbMDsLm2tHzmsLrT3-YtMRr3oK8RXk[/youtube]

v chill

this album is something fukn ELSE

finally blasting it in some headphones and it really opens up

New track was called Playing the Long Game

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS1D4Y7bUEM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1nRPlVgNNbRdI4ucG6w1OlxADP3GbMDsLm2tHzmsLrT3-YtMRr3oK8RXk[/youtube]

v chill

cool so panda bear sounds like everything else now great

New track was called Playing the Long Game

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS1D4Y7bUEM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1nRPlVgNNbRdI4ucG6w1OlxADP3GbMDsLm2tHzmsLrT3-YtMRr3oK8RXk[/youtube]

v chill

dude this slaps so hard. the setlist slaps so hard, I hope he adds some midwest dates for the summer. EP SZN lmao

Tropic of Cans wrote:

New track was called Playing the Long Game

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS1D4Y7bUEM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1nRPlVgNNbRdI4ucG6w1OlxADP3GbMDsLm2tHzmsLrT3-YtMRr3oK8RXk[/youtube]

v chill

cool so panda bear sounds like everything else now great

awful kneejerk take bud

New track was called Playing the Long Game

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS1D4Y7bUEM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1nRPlVgNNbRdI4ucG6w1OlxADP3GbMDsLm2tHzmsLrT3-YtMRr3oK8RXk[/youtube]

v chill

That's dope, reminds me of the Reaper stuff a bit
After a few listens Buoys really started to click
Threw on the Tomboy box set for old times sake and damn!
AC needs to put out more box sets

Tropic of Cans wrote:

New track was called Playing the Long Game

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS1D4Y7bUEM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1nRPlVgNNbRdI4ucG6w1OlxADP3GbMDsLm2tHzmsLrT3-YtMRr3oK8RXk[/youtube]

v chill

cool so panda bear sounds like everything else now great

relax

new song is fucking incredible i want more

struggling to...not...listen...seeing him next Wednesday...


struggling...to not...look at setlist...

Don't look moop you'll be stoked

New song feels like Noah's found a sweet spot. What a song. It was amazing live

griff_doge wrote:

Tropic of Cans wrote:

New track was called Playing the Long Game

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS1D4Y7bUEM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1nRPlVgNNbRdI4ucG6w1OlxADP3GbMDsLm2tHzmsLrT3-YtMRr3oK8RXk[/youtube]

v chill

cool so panda bear sounds like everything else now great

awful kneejerk take bud

actually I agree. at the show last night this sounded like a cover; I was confused. not excited about it

man, I'm having major cognitive dissonance with the new song and the critiques

respect y'alls opinions and perspectives (and also shout out to moop for abstaining for a week damn!) but I'm really vibing it. I guess elements of the song sound kinda familiar, I am reminded of but really find it as a cool familiar but also future facing Panda Bear song

actually I agree. at the show last night this sounded like a cover; I was confused. not excited about it

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