Panda Bear - Buoys

Panda Bear - BuoysVinyl LP pressing. From the opening minutes of Buoys, Noah Lennox's sixth solo album as Panda Bear resembles something both wholly new and intimately familiar to fans and followers of the musician and Animal Collective member's body of work. Lennox's bright, sincere voice is still front and center, along with his beatific approach to melodic structure and vocal phrasing but there's miles of space surrounding it, a guitar and a few textured samples

who has previously recorded Mose Allison material and palled around with Tom Waits

a body of work that falls within the cracks of jazz and dance music

Experience the sonic brilliance of Arcade Fire

saw the band letting synthesizer seep into their ethereal sound

Saxophonist Jordan Smart

The bass drum falls in

tidal imagery

this sophomore album continues those changes by turning its back on the hushed sound of For Emma

inviting musicians in one by one

Slowly rising to power over the course of sporadically released albums and years of touring

" but he enjoyed working with standards as well and made them swing hard

Moller focusses on the chord stabs from the original for the Echologist Dub