Album Review: Panda Bear's 'Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper' Makes an Emotional Statement — billboard.com

The music Noah Lennox makes as Panda Bear exists in a trippy universe unto itself, one that's parallel to his work as part of pioneering alternative band Animal Collective but without its fraternal, organic mysticism. Using samplers and extensively processed instrumentation, the 36-year-old cobbles together arrangements that range from sunny and kaleidoscopic (like the songs on 2007's acclaimed Person Pitch) to melancholic and reverential (2011's Tomboy) and glues them together with singing that's simple and sticky.

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