Artist: PANDA BEAR Who: The artistic moniker of Noah Benjamin Lennox, born 46 years ago in Charlottesville, Virginia. He started his musical career in 1998 as founder of art pop act Animal Collective. So far he released 7 solo albums (the new one included).
MOJO Magazine (UK): “Perfectly sequenced, Sinister Grift’s dubious uplift gradually falls away to reveal an exquisite melancholy introspection, the sound of optimism weighted by mooring hooks of sadness.”
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7 February 2025
PANDA BEAR aka American singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist (and co-founder of electro act Animal Collective) Noah Benjamin Lennox launches his 6th full length, called Sinsiter Gift on 28th February.
Following the vibrant lead single Ferry Lady we get
a 2nd appetizer titled ENDS MEET. Another feel-good
tune.
Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
9 January 2025
PANDA BEAR aka American singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist (and co-founder of electro act Animal Collective) Noah Benjamin Lennox launches his 6th full length, called Sinsiter Gift on 28th February.
New album artwork
Ahead of it, following lead single Defense he serves another
chipper cocktail tune for cold winter nights, titled FERRY LADY
Wake up people,
blow your horn,
here’s your sprightly
stimulant of the day.
Press info:“Lennox returns with another statement that feels equally cumulative and unprecedented in his catalog. While his solo records have ranged from starkly intimate expressions of grief to colorful, electronic opuses, his music has never before sounded so
warm and immediate. Working in his Lisbon, Portugal home studio with Animal Collective bandmate Josh “Deakin” Dibb, Lennox transforms Panda Bear into something resembling
an old-school rock ensemble, playing nearly all the instruments himself.”
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20 October 2024
Singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist (and co-founder of electro act Animal Collective) Noah Benjamin Lennox (46), artistically known asPANDA BEAR announced the birth of his first album in 6 years, his 7th overall. It’s named Sinister Grift and will land next year, on 28th February. It’s co-produced with Animal Collective bandmate Josh “Deakin” Dibb. More info here.
Lead single DEFENSE is a slo-mo stomper
with an immediate effect on your feet/head.
American multi-instrumentalist Noah Benjamin Lennox better known as PANDA BEAR and equally musical centipede Peter Kember aka SONIC BOOM
(co-founder of Spacemen 3) worked together again. The result is the new album,
titled Reset. It’s inspired by Kember’s collection of records from the ’50s and ’60s
and has several samples of hits of those memorable music decades on this new longplayer.
Pitchfork says: “Sharing equal billing for the first time, longtime collaborators Noah Lennox and Peter Kember achieve an intoxicating mind meld over a sample-heavy tribute to 1960s pop. Reset addresses our own troubled zeitgeist by avoiding the ambient dread, blithe critique, and seething anger that often characterize records we consider to be topical today… Less palliative than corrective, Reset is a dose of human lightness in the drudgery of the now. Conventional wisdom says that only younger performers have the unspoiled optimism and energy necessary to make such enthusiasm believable—the ardent songs Reset samples, after all, were sung by teens or twenty-somethings. But Panda Bear and Sonic Boom counter with the longevity of artists who have never compromised, and they give us the defiant Reset knowing that despair is a weapon in the hands of a present hell-bent on stamping out our souls.” Score: 8/10.
American multi-instrumentalist Noah Benjamin Lennox better known as PANDA BEAR and equally musical centipede Peter Kember aka SONIC BOOM
(co-founder of Spacemen 3) worked together again. The result is a new album,
titled Reset. It’s inspired by Kember’s collection of records from the ’50s and ’60s
and comes out on 12 August.
And here’s the second bright-coloured taster, named EDGE OF THE EDGE.
American multi-instrumentalist Noah Benjamin Lennox better known as PANDA BEAR and equally musical centipede Peter Kember aka SONIC BOOM (co-founder of Spacemen 3) worked together on several occasions and did it once again recently with a new album, titled Reset as the result. It’s inspired by Kember’s collection of records from the ’50s
and ’60s and comes out on 12 August.
Ahead of it comes the first singleGO ON. A featherlight pop earworm
featuring a sample of Give It To Me, a 1967 hit for legends The Troggs.
Clips that will have an impact on your eyes and your ears…
2 April 2019
Last month former Animal Collective member Noah Lennox aka PANDA BEAR launched
his sixth solo album called BUOYS. Today he shares a curious and notable clip for the sterling title track.
“Dogs see past how many followers we have and how many tickets we sell. This allows us to relax, be ourselves and not sweat the small stuff. I wanted to make a video that relayed the themes of the song’s lyrics to the confidence and bliss that comes from the relationship with
an animal.” said Lennox about the idea behind the video.
