Panda Bear- Person Pitch

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (311 of them)

this is wonderful, yes

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

This should be greater than it is.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, I appreciate that AC seems to be one of the only bands (maybe *the* only band) that tries not to let their late sixties Beach Boys worship get in the way of actually listening to things from later decades up to the present. Elephant-fricking-6 it isn't. But "Bros" aside right now I'm not feeling this much.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

My 2007 favorite so far.

― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:36 (nineteen years ago)

I would love an instrumental mix, honestly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

Would you leave in the backwards vocals?

― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

Depending on the song. ("Ponytail"'s all right.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

The line6 (i think they use this live -- not sure about studio) vocal delay is going to be one of those things that will date these records eventually. (Also black dice)

― UART variations (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

ponytail is the dud for me, the rest is golden

― am0n (am0n), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

I wished I liked this more. The vocals are very sweet, and these songs are for the most part nice, but I guess I just wish they exploded, like some of the stuff on, say, Here Comes the Indian or Sung Tongs. This record seems pleasant, and I wish it was amazing.

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

take pills ned!

― am0n (am0n), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

Dominique says it better than I could!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:49 (nineteen years ago)

And it wasn't "Ponytail," I realize, it was "Search for Delicious." Two track EP of that and "Bros" = golden.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:50 (nineteen years ago)

actually bro's almost sounds like a different mix here than on the 12"

― am0n (am0n), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 05:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm having mixed feelings about some of it, but listening to Bros, Im Not and Carrots all in row is fantastic, and takes up 27 minutes by itself.

― Z S (Zach S), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

"Search for Delicious." Two track EP of that and "Bros" = golden.

this gets it right on the head, after a bit longer listening to it. i'm not/comfy.. is great still, but those songs were way early last year on constant repeat for a few days straight. search for delicious and bros are totally fucking awesome. bros is like one constant explosion of muddy crystal if you ask me.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 06:30 (nineteen years ago)

you all must be fucking kidding me.

― jeffrey / secret eye (jeffrey secret eye), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 06:41 (nineteen years ago)

whah?

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 06:44 (nineteen years ago)

this is just how i wanted it! it's better than i thought it would be

― rizzx (Rizz), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

whoah @ those explosion sounds. I need to listen to this again immediately.

― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

i'm pretty sure he samples those engine noise whooshes from the sand hot rods in phantom menace star wars

― the kwisatz bacharach (sanskrit), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

ok so let me get this straight

I'm Not/Comfy In Nautica was the single.

Bros is the 12"

and Good Girl/Carrot was on the split with Excepter?

I hope this is released on vinyl, I think I like it more than Feels (which I liked a lot). It's spacier and more abstract.

― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 8 February 2007 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

I wish this album was influenced more by the Smashing Pumpkins.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 8 February 2007 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

the love for this album is a little baffling...i'm with d leone and ned--this is decent, but i think avey makes a good foil for his sweetness, which is why AC stuff tends to work better than either of their solo-project stuff.

also, young prayer has...well, a lot more invention.

― mike powell (mike powell), Thursday, 8 February 2007 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

sleeve, yeah, you got it. all that stuff is still able to be found if you want the vinyl.

also, i think this wins over avey's solo stuff, but i always like the bear over the tare.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Thursday, 8 February 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I wish this was more difficult too...like it was fuckin' OUT MUSIC, MAAAAN. *blorp*

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 8 February 2007 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

I think I like this because it has a lot more of the Jane sound in it than Young Prayer did.

― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 8 February 2007 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think it's surprising that this is more tame than Sung Tongs/Here Comes The Indian...Panda Bear has always been the melodic base for AC and he's now married with a child in Lisbon (even a song called "take pills" appears to say, "I don't want for us to take pills anymore")...so the wise, peaceful aura is fitting...this is much better than Feels which was initially interesting but eventually felt annoying and contrived (probably due to its lack of lasting melodies - it always felt like more of an Avey Tare effort)...It's not quite as good as Sung Tongs though, which may prove that the collaboration doesn't hurt

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Thursday, 8 February 2007 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

I like it at least as much as Sung Tongs, otherwise otm. half feels like a lost masterpiece from a narcotized Russian Futurists and the other half is just a hazy restless womb of perfection. I'd love to hear how a lot of other bands would sound with the prickly pits excised, but that's my 'thing' i guess.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 10 February 2007 06:21 (nineteen years ago)

Feels which was ~~initially interesting but eventually felt~~ annoying and contrived
Feels which was ~~initially interesting but eventually felt~~ annoying and contrived
Feels which was ~~initially interesting but eventually felt~~ annoying and contrived

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Saturday, 10 February 2007 06:25 (nineteen years ago)

ok now that's otm, no need for politeness. didn't 'feel' shit amirite?

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 10 February 2007 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Reviews Pour In

― M.V., Tuesday, 13 March 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

I think what makes me laugh the most is the first complaint is from Pacific Grove (which everyone knows is inferior to Carmel). As for my reviewing style, nobody is more dissatisfied with it than I am, in that I always think I can do better!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

I am still liking this more than anything else from 2007 so far.

― sleeve, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

damn, 9.4, pitchfork went off.

this will be a good time to watch how much they can influence a record's ubiquity even when it's "out."

(and for the record, i really like this album, although it could have been a perfect EP.)

― poortheatre, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

this is tight yo

― modestmickey, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

It justifies the hype.

It's pretty fuckin' great.

― Sum Fitch, Thursday, 22 March 2007 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

i love it.
I don't think it's a 9.4
maybe if he'd kept the "edits" which are much more concise and listenable then the 12 minute album versions , being that they are just one loop over and over again, and had he replaced Search For Delicious with an actual song, maybe a 9 would be appropriate but for all the great moments, there are still some self indulgent snoozes too

― tornup_andhurt, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

I like this album a lot, and I hate everything.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 23 March 2007 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

microhouse artists Basic Channel... pass the sick bucket

― resolved, Friday, 23 March 2007 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Boomkat review kind of confirms my feelings about this...

I’m not trying to say ‘Person Pitch’ is devastatingly original, rather that Panda Bear has done what so many other fail to do; take an encyclopaedic musical knowledge and translate that into genuinely great fresh compositions. This sentiment is even echoed right down to the album’s packaging which instead of giving you the usual bland liner notes/lyrics/praise be to the creator crap shows you a giant list of influences ranging from minimal techno to dub, to hip hop, to kraut-rock and beyond and you know, if you listen carefully you can hear it all. The first thing that comes up when people begin chattering about Lennox’s productions is Brian Wilson, and that’s an apt comparison at surface level, but listen a little closer and you’ll hear Kraftwerk, Autechre, John Lennon, Lee Perry, Stockhausen, Timbaland, Konono No.1, Arvo Part and so much more.

it's actually really pretty nice as well, but I can't shake the notion that in the end, it's little more than the musical equivalent of a magic-eye picture :/

I get the impression they're (this and AC) heaps of fun to write about, and that they're good at firing peoples own imaginations, but I'm sort of sceptical about how much weight any of it carries musically. I do really like it all as an art project though... maybe I'll find my way in to it on a bit deeper level eventually.

― fandango, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

"like it as an art project, but it's underwhelming as music" could be my motto though frankly, considering how much ILM (and IRL) endorsed stuff provokes that sort of mild disinclination and not-quite-enthusiasm feeling in me this decade...

― fandango, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

through "bros," this album is awes - thats as far as i am

― 69, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

This has grown on me (not to a 9.4 though!) I think you have to be a really inured indie person for the "dance" & repetitious stuff in here to actually feel in any way relevant though :/ that angle on it really doesn't grab my ear as much as I'd like...

"musical equivalent of a magic-eye picture" ok, I think what I'm trying to say is this record would appeal to just about anyone, but in a weird way that let's everybody take an entirely different impression home of what it's got going on. It's kind of an interesting trick. Also, it is really, really pleasant and nice for sure... I sort of find that's as far as it goes w/r/t my emotional response though. I wish it got under my skin a little more, I mean, yeah it's sunshiney but it's no "Aerial" is it?

― fandango, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

does anyone fancy transcribing the liner notes? i'd love to read the list of influences.

― rio natsume, Monday, 26 March 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

how can you people complain these songs are too long. get with the fuckin program fellas.

― artdamages, Monday, 26 March 2007 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

wait, there is gonna be an animal collective box set? thats a must have.

― artdamages, Monday, 26 March 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

wait, there is gonna be an animal collective box set? i need that. i think box sets are going to be the only cds i buy anymore.

― artdamages, Monday, 26 March 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

It's good but I need a few more listens. I love "Ponytail" instantly btw.

― zeus, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

does anyone fancy transcribing the liner notes? i'd love to read the list of influences.

you really could just buy a copy y'know

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=56837#unread

― Milton Parker, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 211 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

"First widely available reissue in 15 years"

https://www.turntablelab.com/products/panda-bear-person-pitch-vinyl-2lp?goal=0_8b218d7604-f4ba19c341-31345977&mc_cid=f4ba19c341&mc_eid=365684acc9

― Indexed, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:34 (three years ago)

Also available on his Bandcamp
https://pandabearmusic.bandcamp.com/album/person-pitch

― mizzell, Friday, 16 December 2022 18:44 (three years ago)

one month passes...

grabbed it today and came to the realization this album is his Olias of Sunhillow

― frogbs, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 05:12 (three years ago)

It is! I know people compare them in terms of sound but also it's there in regards to them being sorta busman's holidays that are even better than anything they was doing with their main groups.

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 08:11 (three years ago)

haha wow, good call

― sleeve, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 15:11 (three years ago)

Overrated. Beach boys for the pitchfork generation

― CerebralCaustic, Thursday, 26 January 2023 15:22 (three years ago)

this thread is how i first came across ilx. lol

― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 January 2023 16:15 (three years ago)

Still sad after all these years “song for ariel” didn’t make it into the album, more songs should have The Zombies samples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIICXi18JAg

I know the song got repurposed for Guys Eyes but that one is nowhere as good as this one.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 26 January 2023 18:33 (three years ago)

three months pass...

"Livin' in the After" is so great, can't believe it's under 3 minutes. should be the longest track on the album

― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 02:46 (three years ago)

one year passes...

I know our AnCo crew here is pretty slim these days, but the new Panda Bear is really good! Actually getting a lot of Person Pitch vibes, but this one is even smoother and more accessible.

― better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 4 March 2025 21:27 (one year ago)

thanks for the reminder, I really dug Reset but that and PP are the only two Panda records I have

until now. I just found Tomboy for cheap.

― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 March 2025 21:45 (one year ago)

will check it, thx

― sleeve, Tuesday, 4 March 2025 21:50 (one year ago)

saw them open for Toro y Moi and was really impressed with much of the newer stuff that i was unfamiliar with

― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 4 March 2025 22:09 (one year ago)

It doesn't remind me of Person Pitch but I do like it more than the last one or two he did.

― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 5 March 2025 00:51 (one year ago)

loving this. “ends meet” is person pitch core for sure

― brony james (k3vin k.), Friday, 7 March 2025 05:19 (one year ago)

i listened to the new one once and it reminded me a lot of tomboy, but a bit more in focus. probably one of his stronger solo efforts alongside the album with sonic boom from a few years ago

― ufo, Friday, 7 March 2025 06:13 (one year ago)

i like the drums on this album

― flopson, Friday, 7 March 2025 15:59 (one year ago)

I initially liked Reset a lot but it had no staying power for me.

― Cow_Art, Friday, 7 March 2025 16:14 (one year ago)

I've played Reset a billion times in recent months and can't seem to get bored of it

― PaulTMA, Friday, 7 March 2025 16:43 (one year ago)

Performative whites more concerned with luigi’s sex tape and trying to make panda bear a thing again than anything real.
— JPEGMAFIA (@jpegmafia) March 6, 2025

― PaulTMA, Friday, 7 March 2025 16:43 (one year ago)

Don't like it as much as Reset - but then that is my most-listened to new album of the past few years, and it was amazing live too.

― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 7 March 2025 16:57 (one year ago)

after the first two songs i thought that this would be my favorite panda bear album ever. the second song, "anywhere but here," is one of the best anco-related songs i've ever heard, imo. the rest of it didn't quite live up to that high, but i did like it a lot

― gestures broadly at...everything (voodoo chili), Friday, 7 March 2025 16:59 (one year ago)

Interesting, I thought it actually got even better as it went on! That Cindy Lee track works so well as a closer.

― better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 7 March 2025 17:08 (one year ago)

Venom's In is my favorite. I think this album is right below Grim Reaper and Reset for me.

― mizzell, Friday, 7 March 2025 17:11 (one year ago)

I’m a big stan for Buoys, it’s if Young Prayer got an upgrade— lots of acoustic guitar, Rusty Santos keeping things dry and exciting, little (if any) vocal stacking, accusations of being “an autotune album” are massively overstated

― for fans of: |redacted|, |redacted|, (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 7 March 2025 20:09 (one year ago)

Cannot stop listening to this new one, feels crazy to say it but I think this is now my favorite Animal Collective related album.

― Davey D, Monday, 10 March 2025 15:40 (one year ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.