Showing posts with label Panda Bear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Panda Bear. Show all posts
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The Wandering Lake :: In Passage


In short, The Wandering Lake is like a male, slightly cleaner Grouper. Or a washed-out Jeff Buckley. Or a fervent disciple of Panda Bear's Young Prayer. One could call it sacred music.

This is an album to fall asleep to - not at night, but in the afternoon. It's nap music; which is not to say boring music, because it's not. The sound falls in the small space between melodic clarity and drifting, and in many ways is perfectly described by both the band's name and the album title. The music is "in passage" - it's traveling with a vague purpose, but a purpose none the less.

Check out the mesmerizing and beautiful "People" below, and head over to Bandcamp to download the full-length album (pay what you want).

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Panda Bear :: "You Can Count on Me" on Fallon




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Boxer/Briefs #5


-State has a great list of the top 25 albums of 2010, with Beach House's Teen Dream at #1.

-Mother Jones has a short interview with Ariel Pink

-P4k reviews Panda Bear's excellent new track "Slow Motion".

-The Recording summarizes the current state of music and lists the top 50 songs of this year.
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Stream New El Guincho EP


I've always been so-so on El Guincho. Labeled almost immediately as the spanish Panda Bear, his debut LP Alegranza!  was indeed heavily influenced by the tribal trends of Animal Collective and the cyclical sampling of Noah Lennox. It was a pretty good album, but it didn't last too long for me.

El Guincho now returns with a series of EPs that re-envision, according to his website, "various South American standards and lost classics." The first of these, Pirates de Sudamerica, is streaming below. It doesn't venture too far from earlier sounds, although it tends to adhere to more traditional pop structures rather than endless loops. I'd say its a nice a change for the band as they stray away from incriminating buzzband influences. Take a listen and stay tuned for more in the future.

YT044 - El Guincho - Piratas de Sudamerica by Young Turks

Piratas de Sudamerica is out July 13 on XL Recordings/Young Turks
Also check out the video for Hindou over at the website.

[via I Guess I'm Floating]