Panda Bear Person Pitch
PAW14 CD
Animal Collective member Panda Bear (a.k.a. Noah Lennox) boldly
returns with his long-awaited third solo record Person Pitch. Years in
the making, Person Pitch marks a dramatic departure from Panda Bear’s
previous solo record Young Prayer. The acoustic instruments of Young
Prayer have been replaced with samplers and electronics.
Fusing Panda’s dramatic life changes over the past few years (marriage,
moving to Lisbon, becoming a father) with his ever-increasing sonic palette
(standouts include Caetano Veloso, Berlin Techno, Scott Walker, and Kylie Minogue),
Person Pitch is suffused with the kind of feel good modern toe-tapping
pop that seems harder and harder to find these days.
Paw Tracks feels that the passing of time will show Panda Bear’s Person
Pitch sitting alongside the great solo albums of Paul McCartney, George
Michael, and Ghostface Killah. Luckily we don’t have to wait.