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Just a quick note today, Darren hit me with the news last night about the Insound preorder for a new Panda Bear single on Fat Cat.
This time they're pressing 3000, and it ships in time to hear it by Xmas day. Go ahead you deserve at least one present for yourself.
Come on!
VINYL FORMAT. Tracks: "Last Night at the Jetty" b/w "Drone." Limited to 3000 copies! Last Night at the Jetty is the third installment in a series of vinyl-only singles, released on four separate labels, previewing the highly-anticipated upcoming solo record by Animal Collective's Panda Bear (Noah Lennox). Highlighting his prodigious production and vocal talent, "Last Night at the Jetty" finds Lennox's beautifully layered, honeyed vocal harmonies morphing across a fairly simple grid of wobbly guitar, a whip-crack metronome-beat and a scattering of electronic sounds and effects. B-side "Drone" takes an even more reductive, minimalist approach, jettisoning the beat altogether with Lennox's long-held vocals hovering over a step-sequence of synthesized tone-blocks.
You should all thank Darren, who clued me into the latest panda bear single preorder at Domino USA!They're gone before I can even post this!Hallelujah.Vacation, till tuesday.
The great Panda Bear singles hunt is on this summer, starting with this preorder from Insound, which was literally the only place I found it so far...nothing from Paw Tracks or anyone else you can give money to to guarantee you hear what direction he's headed next.
Speaking of that direction, I'm deliberately waiting for the needle to hit this record. Think of the difference between Strawberry Jam and Merriweather...it's almost two different bands, tow very different approaches to sound, first they took the muddled freak folk jam sound and cleaned it up so you could even understand (well at least hear) what they were talking about, which was baffling. All of this only to mash it into a real sound of the moment in Merriweather. If that's going to stand up in future decades it's only going to be because it was the OK, Computer of the year. enough amazing chances with experimentation and electronics to close the book on everyone else. That was it.
Then Person Pitch became what Pet Sounds should have been...all the hype of that album I never got I could relate to hearing this for extended periods of time in commuting or just zoning out doing dishes. Except every time I would think, I'm really going to study this and take notes, I would inevitable end up enjoying myself and putting the pen down. I imagine that happened to Timothy Leary a few times.
But where Panda could go next is anyone's guess...is Lisbon Portugal going to effect this? I'd definitely bet on it...will it be some kind of El Guincho, folk, flamenco, Gregorian chant hybrid? Probably. The point is, it's probably not going to be anything like Person Pitch, but equally as amazing because if nothing else the members of Animal Collective have proven they are willing to commit to completely out there ideas and sounds and are talented enough separately to pull them off. Not only did they take a chance on an OK, computer moment, but they follow it up over and over with something that keeps raising the bar.
I should probably set up a news alert from Google for this one, but maybe they just press more of these so it isn't a situation like 'Pills', I'm glad I got one early, but based on the prices of some of those auctions this could be out there on a lot of turntables.
I don't really know Notwist. I know they were on Zero Hour a million years ago, and my friend Tim had a friend who started that and he used to get free music from them. I know he got a notwist album from them, but I have no idea what it sounded like.I was reading some little description of them being a hardcore band and turning to more electronic. I like the vocal quality here, it's recorded kind of hushed and really clean...musically it's maybe a little Postal Service...not as extreme. In that case you really have to give in to the super pop of the foreign electronics...this is more tempered, not so over the top 1995. Just sounds that can't exactly be live.This track 'Boneless', is really catchy, singalong, but still sounding playable and natural...not so synthy that it gets super dated or just too much...the other stuff is pretty heavily electronic, which is ok, it's just that ambient slow electronics I can do without. They're using a lot of string instruments with the electronics which I appreciate...it's just not experimental enough? I don't know.The B-side is a Panda Bear remix, which I think has him reworking the vocals...check out I guess I'm floating for a rip of the Panda Bear B-side, which I like a lot...there exists a panda bear filter and it was heavily applied....nice. The video for boneless is like this homeless skater kid in brazil huffing glue and riding around...it really fits with PB's ambient, world music aesthetic.This can be had from Domino USA:
Highlighting the stunning experimental pop of The Notwist's latest opus, "The Devil, You + Me", comes the Boneless 7-inch. Side A includes the piano-driven pocket pop masterpiece, "Boneless" in all its album version glory. Side B features a sunny, tropicalia tinged remix by Animal Collective's Panda Bear. A vinyl exclusive, featuring two of independent music's most progressive and respected artists.
There is a new Panda Bear 7" from Person Pitch. It's 7$ Directly from Paw Tracks.
I really can't stop listening to this, it's also making me go back and relisten to Pet Sounds and Smile. These aren't things I gave too much notice to ever. I know their signifigance now but I also know my dad listened to the beach boys all the time and I kind of wrote them off. That was music from my chldhood...like Barry Manilow. It can't be good can it? Well, yes it is. I know now it's important for a lot of reasons. The biggest milestones are the ones that later seem like they aren't because they are so prevalent now. 'That sound isn't that groundbreaking', it's sad because I know I won't ever know what it was like to hear that when it first came out.
Well I can get that a little bit with Person Pitch this is my Pet Sounds. In style and substance. And Sung Tongs, these will hold up in a decade, and still be amazing. This album works start to finish... perfect for summer and it just lulls me into happiness.
This will be gone quick, only 1000.
Panda Bear - Take Pills b/w Bonfire Of The Vanities 7" (Paw Tracks)
Latest single from Panda Bear's hugely successful Person Pitch. "Take Pills" is backed with a live version of the non-album track "Bonfire Of The Vanities" recorded at the Lisbon club ZDB. Limited to 1,000 copies.
