{"id":699,"date":"2019-03-07T16:17:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T21:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/?p=699"},"modified":"2019-04-17T23:44:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T03:44:17","slug":"panda-bear-buoys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/2019\/03\/07\/panda-bear-buoys\/","title":{"rendered":"PANDA BEAR \u2013 BUOYS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Panda Bear makes big waves with his latest album, \u201cBuoys\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Noah Lennox, otherwise known as Panda Bear, <\/span>returns <\/span>with <\/span>his 5<\/span>th<\/span> full length LP, <\/span>Buoys<\/span>. This<\/span> just a year after the release of his \u201cA Day with The Homies\u201d EP, which only had a vinyl release. Once again Panda Bear is joined with producer Rusty Santos, who helped him with one of my favorites of his releases, Person Pitch. Most notably, Panda Bear is a member of experimental music group, Animal Collective, but once again he\u2019s proven why he\u2019s not just another drop in the pond.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

Buoys shows Noah Lennox taking a left turn in terms of his approach, which now displays a more aquatic and wavy sound when it comes to production.\u00a0 On the title track, \u201cBuoys\u201d, we see him open with what can only be described as the crashing of waves and then disperses into sprays of water which come down on the listener like a waterfall. The best stretch is from the opening track to \u201cInner Monologue\u201d which caps off the run of this album with a very personal and introspective sound that seems fitting in the context of Panda\u2019s discography. A quiet guitar strum plays over a woman crying and then Noah\u2019s vocals enter the room, both very subtly while also with a certain air of panic, and it creates<\/span>\u00a0a quite personal atmosphere<\/span>. <\/span>The<\/span> atmosphere is something <\/span>I can\u2019t ascribe to m<\/span>uch<\/span> music that I\u2019ve heard. Sadly, this album doesn\u2019t have the most fitting ending, the final two tracks fail to keep up the energy and <\/span>sometimes quiet self-contemplation<\/span> that gives this album its character<\/span>. Though, <\/span>individually<\/span>,<\/span> both \u201cCrescendo\u201d and \u201cHome Free\u201d are quite enjoyable. Overall, I\u2019m glad Panda is taking a new direction and I highly recommend checking out his previous solo albums,<\/span> to get a taste of what has come before. <\/span>\u201cPerson Pitch\u201d<\/span>,<\/span> for example, <\/span>is <\/span>the<\/span> album <\/span>that stands out the most. Noah Lennox <\/span>has <\/span>once again proved himself as a<\/span>n experimental<\/span> artist who can adapt to a new sound and make the best out of it, even if it’s like nothing else he\u2019s done before<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

Standout Tracks: Inner Monologue, Buoys, Token<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

Token —\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g3pvD2eeews<\/a><\/h4>\n

Dolphin —\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Eo6Sf80Uco8<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Panda Bear makes big waves with his latest album, \u201cBuoys\u201d Noah Lennox, otherwise known as Panda Bear, returns with his 5th full length LP, Buoys. This just a year after the release of his \u201cA Day with The Homies\u201d EP, which only had a vinyl release. Once again Panda Bear is joined with producer Rusty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/the-dale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}