“Somewhere in Noah Lennox’s ocean-universe of a brain there’s a dolphin that looks like it’s just come out of a toothpaste tube. In the video complementing single one it performs as an approximation of the acrylic-smooth legs that made a kaleidoscopic invasion of the Isle of Man flag in Animal Collective’s ‘FloriDada’, and the slightly brusquer, silkily glib, morph-man in Adult Jazz’s ‘Eggshell’. I”
“Noah Lennox finds solace in solitude on his sixth solo album as Panda Bear, stripping the instrumentation down to just a handful of sounds to create an unusually unified listen.”
“Panda Bear’s latest solo outing sees his psychedelic brand of surreal folk submerged under an ocean of cascading delays and nautical vibes.”
“It’s long been received wisdom that Panda Bear, aka 40-year-old Noah Lennox, was always the most poptastic member of Baltimore experimentalists Animal Collective. That narrative prophesied that it was he that sprinkled magic dust on the band’s psychedelic musings, inviting a more mainstream audience into their multi-coloured world. And, sure enough, the collective’s latest album, last year’s ‘Tang”
