Panda Bear - Person Pitch
 

Finally got it.

I'm loving it right now. I'd be dancing right now if my legs weren't dead.

What do you think?

what i've heard is pretty good stuff, but i have yet to hear the entire album.

yeah, it rules. totaly revitalized my interest in the AC camp.

I'm very excited for the new Animal Collective CD now, as well.

All I've heard is that it is coming out this year. Any other news on that?

yeah, it's fucking awesome, really really liked it.

I haven't heard about a new album, they have new songs i bet though--- they'll probably road test first. I did read a few months ago they planned to release a live set ranging all over their career. They said it would be a side devoted to each era, or like album or acoustic, etc. I hope they stay on track with that.


ANd on person pitch-- it's been the best cd i've bouyght in ages, and the best music I've heard at that. And what's best is everyone who i play it around likes it too- which is awesome when you feel like you have reputation for wierd and punk music that cats don't dig. It's great great great.

at the moment person pitch is my fave album of 2007, absolutely wonderful! as for the next AC album, i have very high expectations, it should have all the familiar live hits such as peace bone, reverend green etc.

Peace Bone and Safer are the only live ones that I recognized when I heard them. I haven't heard Reverend Green.

i gotta say its ok at the mo. it hasnt grabbed my attention like the other stuff either solo or with ac. ill give it more listens to of course. i do dig the formula one samples on the opener tho. actually the engine note tells me it maybe more of an irl engine than a f1 v8...if anyone here really cares!

Not bad. Probably my favorite out of the Animal Collective-related material. I like that it's more of a sound collage than folky pop.

i thought it was the sound of a roller coasting chain dragging the carts up the first hill and off into a wonderous loopy rides of steel lines.

That's just the thought that was going through Panda Bear's head when he recorded the album.

it fits very well, that's why i thought it. ^___^

it's a good album.

album of the year so far is boredoms - super roots 9...

That's a reissue though, right? So I don't think it fits criteria for album of the year.

might be if i'll get to hear it this year... any idea when it will be available outside japan?

Nevermind, its a live recording from 2005. I bet it is great but absolutely nothing beats seeing them live now.

Nothing.

I didn't want to start a new AC thread, or revive a really old one:

http://www.crayola.com/canwehelp/pro....cfm?vid_num=4

New Panda Bear in bad review shocker courtesy of the Independent:

Panda Bear, Person Pitch

 

Published: 06 April 2007

Person Pitch is the third album from Panda Bear, aka Noah Lennox, drummer and guitarist with psychedelic-folk quartet Animal Collective. It's a more buoyant affair than 2004's Young Prayer, whose sombre tone perhaps reflected Lennox's response to his father's death; this time round, the circumstances - marriage, fatherhood, relocation to Lisbon - are more positive, and so is the music, built from layered loops and found sounds, and capped by plangent, Beach Boy-ish vocals. The effect recalls the dense, swirling sample-scapes created by The Avalanches, and has a similar mix of attractions and drawbacks. The 12-minute "Bros" is typical, Lennox's harmonies riding a Wilsonian loop-groove, with sundry traffic noises and animal wailings shifting shape around the core of rhythm guitar. Bubbling cauldrons and departing trains adorn tracks like "Take Pills" and "Comfy in Nautica". But when the metamorphoses are taken at too leisurely a pace the repetitions become tedious, while the glorious, uplifting vocals are often rendered indistinct in the muddy mix. "Do you know what I mean?" asks Lennox at one point. Well, sadly, no.

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:fuckyou:

It's quite obvious that that guy just hates the beach boys and probably is making the same fucking assumption as every reviewer in saying Panda is trying to be Brian Wilson.

I've been relistening to this album recently and I've decided this the best AC-related album yet. A perfect pop album with the most perfect pop song at a whole 12 minutes long! (Bros.) I like Animal Collective a lot but I often find their albums to be nothing outstanding even though they are usually consistent. But I can actually listen to this album on a loop for a few hours and not get bored.

Oh and I think the Beach Boys comparison is overdone... of course it was influenced by Brian Wilson, that is obvious! This album would have been not as warm without the reverbed vocal harmonies. I'd rather he took something from another artist than make it sound shit, yeah?

I really enjoy this album, though it's far from my favorite AC-related record (Feels stands for that). I'm Not is my favorite on there, but all the tracks are neat songs really

Pullhair Rubeye is my favorite AC-related album. Derek is right, though, this is probably better than any AC albums ... maybe tied with "sung tongs".

Feels sucks, in my opinion.

Feels is one of my least favourite... it sounds so plain I think. Still nice songs though.

I enjoy Feels the most because:

1) every song seems awesome to me. Grass, The Purple Bottle, Bees, Banshee Beat... all killers. The second part is more difficult to get into but I find it as good.
2) the overall atmosphere is incredible. I can't explain it, but there's something special in the way everything sounds, and it sounds fantastic to my ears
3) personal meaning. There's a before feels and a after feels in my life: before feels, i used to think that everything from the 00's was suckish revival. Then i discovered Feels and Drum's Not Dead one after the other and it changed my vision of music

AC is my second favorite band, right after Sonic Youth, by the way...

i did subsequently find out it was indeed a sample of an f1 car at full chat.... a mclaren at a test session in barcelona during the spring of 2005. pedro de la rosa was at the wheel. seemingly noah sampled it from some televison footage....

now ill get my 2 anoraks!

It's in my Top 5 AC related albums. Yes.

it is great!