Noah Lennox (a.k.a Panda Bear)Secondary Research

Noah Benjamin Lennox

July 17 1978

Baltimore, Maryland US

Psychedelic pop, experimental, electronic, ambient

Vocals, drums, sampler, synthesizer, guitar, piano

Paw Tracks, FatCat Records, Domino Records, Catsup Plate, St. Ives, UAAR, Soccer Star

Animal Collective, Jane, John Maus, Pantha du Prince, Daft Punk

(Bowery Ballroom, New York, 2007)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_Bear_(musician)

Tags: Early Life Maryland School Choir Short Films Fish Sticks Fecal Matters Appy Halloween Drawing Pandas

Tags: Animal Collective Teenager Electronic Music House Techno Aphex Twin Josh Dibb Deakin Avey Tare Dave David PortnerGeologist Brian Weits Person Pitch Strawberry Jam Samplers Black Dice First Tour Stewart Copeland Drumming

"Black Dice took us on our first tour and I feel like the wisest things I’ve learned about being in a band I learned by watching them."[7] and that he looks to Black Dice "as a model for a band. [...] I feel like as a band, I can't speak for the other guys [of Animal Collective], but certainly for myself, like I modelled the way I approach to everything with the band watching the way Black Dice did it.”

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"I get impatient writing songs, I can't spend more than a couple of hours before I get frustrated. So I got to kind of spit it out real fast. My favorite songs are the ones where I worked really really fast on, when it comes all out in like two hours or something.”

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"Since I got off the airplane here [for the first time] I had a good feeling about this place."

"connected to the European way of life"

"slow moving kind of person"

"slow moving kind of place"

Tags: Musical Equipment Sampler Synthesizer

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Tags: Albums EPs Singles Remixes Appearances Solo

Tags: Jane Discography Paradise COcOnuts Berserker

1998

Electronic, Indie Pop

53:37

Soccer Star

Pitchfork Rating 6.5/10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_Bear_(album)

Tags: First Solo 20 Soccer Star Records Deakin Panda Bear 1998

Quote: “I kind of feel like I didn’t even have a concept of what an album was back then, for the first one, when I was 15, 16, 17, 18 or so. I just put songs together that I liked at the time.”

Young Prayer (2004)

Paw Tracks

Pitchfork Rating 8.5/10 Best New Music

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/6141-young-prayer/

Tags: Father Death Sung Tongs Campfire Songs

Tags: Song Titles Young Prayer Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2

Tags: Song Structure Young Prayer Gregorian Chant Reich Stereolab’s Blue Milk

Summery: In this Pitchfork article Mark Richardson gives a review and discusses the second album by Panda Bear called Young Prayer. He discusses the influences, the song structure and sound and compares the album with two Animal Collective albums Sung Tongs and Campfire songs.

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Person Pitch (2007)

Paw Tracks

Pitchfork rating 9.4/10 Best New Music

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/10025-person-pitch/

Tags: Person Pitch Artists Basic Channel Luomo Dettinger Wolfgang Voigt

Tags: Dance Music Structure Repetition

Tags: Beach Boys Brian Wilson

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Summery- Mark Richardson talks about 2007 album Person Pitch. He talks a lot about Noah’s influences, which are also stated in a booklet with his album. He talks about the sound of the album, comparing it to Brain Wilson and The Beach Boys music, some songs of which he samples in the album.

Tomboy (2011)

Paw Tracks

Pitchfork rating 8.5/10 Best New Music

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15299-tomboy/

Tags: Arthur Russell Brian Wilson

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Summery- Jess Harvell discusses influences of the album Tomboy. She talks about Noah working with Peter Kember a.k.a Sonic Boom. She also talks about the sound of the album.

Anthony Fantano on the Mr Noah EP –

“It’s a pretty great start. The song features a driving beat, its kinda lo-fi in its recording, its layered, its trippy, its colourful, if I’m not mistaken Panda Bear incorporates a sample of dogs whimpering. Throughout this track its very apparent that guys like Brian Wilson still inform Panda Bears vocal style heavily, and I love that descending vocal line he keeps using on his track (Anthony sings it). However Panda Bears vocal performances are just about as off point as my vocal performance just then. He just doesn’t seem to be as in tune as on some parts of this song as he typically does in an Animal Collective track. I don’t know if he’s writing himself out of his range, maybe he’s straining a little bit. There’s some points where he’s a little over register or he just sounds slightly goofy, but instrumentally and melodically I still like this tune. I think it has a lot of personality to it. Unlike Centipede Hz I feel like this track is an onion and I guess I’m sort of enjoying peeling those layers back. But sometimes this cacophony can feel a little unnecessary, sort of like on the next track. The song Faces In The Crowd which has these swirling, cycling synthesizers that a lot of the time I feel like are distracting away from what is just an alright song. However with the very reverbed, icey melodies all over this track I do care a lot for the very blissful tone of this track. Then we get the song Untying The Knot which I think instrumentally is one of the most interesting tracks on the entire record. We kick this song off with like some weird samples if I am correct which are incorporated throughout the track and sound very wonderful. Then we get the layered very repetitive vocals throughout this track which read a lot like a chant to me, and with the primal beat backing on all of it it feels very hypnotic and meditative. And a lot like this track I find the closer to be pretty pleasant too.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7xmVw419fs

Tags: Person Pitch Tomboy Pressure

http://altmusic.about.com/od/interviews/a/Noah-Lennox-Of-Panda-Bear_2.htm

Tags: Person Pitch Depressive Take Pills Tomboy Young Prayer Lyrics

Tags: Daughter Son Rhythm

Tags: ChillwavePerson Pitch Ariel Pink

Tags: Strange Animal Collective Ariel Pink Digital Era

Summery: In this interview with Noah Lennox, they discuss his album Tomboy, compared with Person Pitch and Young Prayer. They talk about his children, and what they thing of his music and the new album. They also talk about how Noah feels about Ariel Pink and his music. The final question they talk about how the digital era has perhaps made people more adventurous with music.

http://www.electronicbeats.net/en/features/interviews/wheres-your-lord-glenn-obrien-talks-to-panda-bear/

Tags: Milan Tour Electronic Acoustic Piano Guitar Cello Synthesizers Pre-Digital Analog

Tags: Live Unreleased

Tags: Improvising John HassellTrumpet Jazz Electronic World Music The Beach Boys

Tags: David Byrne Brian Eno Pete Kember Kids Collective Intellectual

Tags: Monty Python The Holy Grail Instincts Knowledge Emotion Nature Music Chocolate

Summery: Panda bear is interviewed for Electronic Beats. They cover a number of topics, such as live shows, collaborations outside of Animal Collective, influences and how technology has affected his work.

Tags: New Tracks Person Pitch Tomboy Samples Break-Centric Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion

http://www.undertheradarmag.com/interviews/in_the_studio_panda_bear_on_his_next_album_grim_reaper/

Tags: Tomboy Pete Kember Sonic Boom Spacemen 3 Collaboration Lyrics Growth Children Creative Process 2014

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http://pitchfork.com/features/guest-lists/6544-panda-bear/

Tags: Favorite Older Songs FnacWham! Everything She Wants George Michael Patience Amazing The Zombies Leave Me Be The Police Wrapped Around Your Finger Voices Inside My Head

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Tags: Favorite Venue The Mercury Lounge New York Animal Collective Herbert The Strokes VoxHall Aarhus Newtown Sydney

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Summery: Pitchfork asks Noah Lennox about his different favorites. Such as favorite current/ past songs, venues and music equipment.

Tags: Coup De Main Animal Collective ODDSAC Film Sundance Film Festival African Music White Audience Drinking Culture Drug-taking Drugs Higher Experience

http://www.coupdemainmagazine.com/interviews/animal-collectives-panda-bear-personal-pitch

Tags: Young Prayer 2004 Father Cancer Songs New Meaning Panda Bear Animal Collective Bedroom Recording Cello Piano Tenor Choir Boston University Major Religion

Tags: Drums Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion Strawberry Jam Feels Tour

Summery: Coup De Main talks with Noah, covering many different things to do with Animal Collective and himself. The talk about Animal Collectives film ODDSAC, drugs, the theme of the album Young Prayer and how Noah feels about sharing such personal thoughts, and having his audience change the song meanings. They also discuss his time at University studying Religion, and what’s next for Animal Collective.

01 – Animal Collective live & ITW @ L’AlhambraAn interview with Panda Bear and Geologist from Animal Collective

Panda Bear-“Solo music is people trying to do something that came from their soul and music that really expresses the feeling that they were having. I feel like we’re trying to do the same thing , its just that we’re very different people I guess. I think its fair to say we live in very different environments.”

Panda Bear- “I always thought that music had no power or no meaning, it didn’t translate some kind of feeling. I don’t feel like “I really want this song to make someone feel this way”. It would be great if they would understand something about what I was thinking when I wrote the song, performed the song or whatever. But I don’t want to demand people to feel a certain way.”

Panda Bear- “Its actually pretty easy for us to play the songs on stage, just because we usually write the songs and perform them live before we record them in a studio so there’s no studio version that we’re having to match or to sound like. The song can sound like whatever it is at the time, so that makes it a lot easier for us.”

Panda Bear- “The speakers are kind of our way of trying to keep things in our control as far as the way it sounds on stage, we’re kind of mixing ourselves together on stage, the sound guy does that too but it’s a way of us not having to deal with monitors and having to tell people “we want more of this!” and “we need less of that!” That sort of thing, we’re kind of in total control there, most of the time.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTLk7Rx4L_M

Panda Bear- Mr Noah (Official Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmXIIL2tmR8