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Release: 28-02-2025
Two decades since debuting as the masked-and-nicknamed drummer and vocalist of Animal Collective, Noah Lennox has led so many creative lives, navigated so manydifferent styles, and been part of so many beloved recordings, that it can be easy tooverlook just how consistent his creative vision has remained. From landmarks soloalbums like 2007’s Person Pitch and 2015’s Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper, tobreakthroughs with Animal Collective like 2004’s Sung Tongs and 2009’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, to his boundary-pushing collaborations with Daft Punk and Solange, Dean Blunt and Paramore, all of his work followed an instantly identifiable emotional throughlinewhile influencing multiple generations and genres of artists.On Sinister Grift, Lennox’s first solo album in five years, he has returned with anotherstatement that feels equally cumulative and unprecedented in his catalog. While his solorecords have ranged from starkly intimate expressions of grief to colorful, electronicopuses, his music has never before sounded so warm and immediate. Working in hisLisbon, Portugal home studio with Animal Collective bandmate Josh “Deakin” Dibb,Lennox transforms Panda Bear into something resembling an old-school rock ensemble,playing nearly all the instruments himself and inviting kindred spirits into the process suchas Cindy Lee, Spirit of the Beehive’s Rivka Ravede, and—for the first time on a Panda Bearsolo album—each of his Animal Collective bandmates.
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