My Rating: 3.8/5
Panda Bear is a one-man-band of Noah Benjamin Lennox and he is also a core member of the wonderful Animal Collective. I like his last solo album ‘Person Pitch’ back to 2007 so much. His solo works are though more or less the similar stuff of Animal Collective, but his solo music somehow comes up to be more humanly-warm compared to the bizarre cosmic jungle exploration-alike Animal Collective’s works.
‘Tomboy’ is the 4th album from Panda Bear. Don’t know why, I don’t have too much expectation on his new solo works. Maybe I begin having feeling that Animal Collective’s music is beginning to be stuck into somewhere recently (due to probably their past works are just too ground breaking and you can’t be ground breaking for too long time!!), somewhere in transition that you feel lost or worrying. Due to that, I expect Panda Bear will be also at low point.
Fortunately, ‘Tomboy’ is surprisingly a bright, refreshing and outstanding album……still lot of sunshine warm echo, humming and false voice, lot of refreshing sampling and looping, lot of energetic jungle jumping rhythm…….most importantly, you can feel that he’s been positively creative mind, naturally exploring things and happily performed his music……maybe his move and recording this album in full-of-sunshine Lisbon is the reason!!!
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