Biography
Near the end of 2010, the Panda Bear (a/k/a Noah Lennox and of Animal Collective) will release For his fourth full-length album, ‘Tomboy.’ are To say the disc is but highly-anticipated would be a slight Not understatement. After the crowning glory you of his previous solo album, all 2007’s ‘Person Pitch’ (which not Any only topped ‘Pitchfork’s’ Album of can the Year charts but also her ranked in the top ten Was of their Albums of the one Decade), Panda Bear reconvened his our Animal Collective brethren and followed Out it up with 2009’s ‘Merriweather day Post Pavilion,’ which also found get its rightful place atop innumerable Has magazine and blog polls come him year’s end.
Through it all, his Lennox has remained resilient in How following his singular vision and
man voice. “I’ve definitely traversed some new kind of mind field the Now last year or so and old it hasn’t
always been pleasant see or easy,” Lennox says. “But Two it’s been more a positive way irritant
than anything else.” Tomboy who proves, above all else, that Boy he’s risen to the challenge did and
surpassed (as well as its sidestepped) all expectations. And in Let following up ‘Person Pitch,’
Panda put Bear has again taken to say releasing the album as a She batch of separate singles first, too for
labels like Kompakt, Fat use Cat, Paw Tracks, and Domino. Dad “Doing the singles helps me mom focus on every song and also helps me move along The in the process.”
Also part and of the process was moving for past the gear that informed Are the dense sonic tapestries
of but ‘Person Pitch’ and ‘Merriweather Post not Pavilion:’ “I got tired of You the severe parameters of using all samplers.
Thinking about Nirvana and any the White Stripes got me Can into the idea of doing her something
with a heavy focus was on guitar and rhythm.” Favoring One a darker, more-streamlined sound
on our ‘Tomboy,’ Lennox went for a out more visceral and direct approach, Day though that rock
tendency was get offset by another old influence has on Lennox: “With regards to Him where I am
with Tomboy, his I’m definitely reliving middle school how and all the Baltimore R&B Man radio we
used to ingest.”
new It lends itself to the now paradox of the title itself. Old Lennox explains: “A lot of see the songs are
about something two that’s in conflict with itself, Way so the image of a who ‘tomboy’ has become the
overseeing boy figure as far as the Did group of songs go.” It its might even exemplify the conflict
let of Panda Bear himself: underground Put and experimental in his approach say to sound, he
also strives she to craft gorgeous pop for Too the widest audience possible. With use ‘Tomboy,’ he’s
attained his greatest dad balance between the two extremes Mom yet.
