Panda Bear- Person Pitch

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

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

not to be a hypocrite -- I've downloaded tons, even if it hasn't impacted my spending -- but sometimes it seems like liner notes are the one remaining perk left of throwing your money down

― Milton Parker, Monday, 26 March 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

"omg Ned, u r such a namedropper"

not as Panda Bear himself: whats the deal with this list?
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/iyiiki/panda_bears_person_pitch_list/

― Zeno, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

it's a good list

apologies to rio m for my shitfit yesterday, that other ILM thread had really gotten me down

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha! I heard some Police in the vocals, and now I see that list.

― zeus, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

hey no worries man, i kinda forgot that you can still buy cds tbh. yr shitfit inspired me to buy it anyway. i guess the list is kinda like a less obscure nurse list for 07 or something

― rio natsume, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

sample source list?

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

wow, this record is a treat.

maybe it helps though that i don't listen to music like this very much (techno having consumed my life ala trees)

― jergïns, Monday, 2 April 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

ha ha I came to post the same thing exactly as jergins.

but it really is a thing of wondrous beauty.

― Tim F, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I got over this pretty fast to be honest :-/

I found the melodies & harmonies very addictive, but otherwise it's sort of unengaging. The songs don't add up to a great deal, though they are very nice. The loops and sonic backing kind of bug me. First few plays I thought it was really inventive but after not too long before it just sounded like one long ever-rolling tickertape of bitty-ness.

A lot of reviews have been making comparisons to dance music in the way it's created.. but frankly, I don't hear much that's on the same level of interest (to me) or commitment here.

It's ok though, definitely better than a lot of other things!

― fandango, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

i hate to make a typical cynical anti-pitchfork comment but i feel like hardly anyone would care about this album without that glowing pitchfork review. i had just looked at it the day before the review on amazon and it was something like #930 in overall sales, and the day of the pitchfork review it shot up to around #250.

― Reatards Unite, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

"Bros" is fantastic. The rest is only ok for me. It's certainly not terrible, but like a lot of the animal collective stuff just strikes me as ok.

Also, I get so confused everytime I click on this thread and see that picture in the first post. What the hell is that? What is happening there? Jesus it's distracting.

― mcddcm, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

It an okay CD. After the first couple of cuts it falls off a bit. I was going to post something silly about ghosts of Beach Boys past but then thought better of it. I didn't want to come off like Simon Reynolds and the Junior Hauntology crew. Mostly it just makes me want to play Pet Sounds.

― leavethecapital, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

"hardly anyone would care about this album without that glowing pitchfork review"

yeah animal collective barely has any fans. good thing pitchfork is around to boost PB into the top 300 of web sales.

― dmr, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Agree with the disagree about interest in this being some kind of Pitchfork artifact. Pitchfork may focus attention, boost sales for a week, but writing all interest in this record off to PF's supposedly massive commercial influence is just lazy. Buzz was there before the review appeared. Songs seem to be selling folks on their own.

― Pye Poudre, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Compare dates of early comments on this thread with date Pitchfork review appeared.

― M.V., Wednesday, 4 April 2007 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

ilx certainly hasn't had animal collective threads for almost five years now

― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link

The only Pitchfork reviews which get charged with influencing ILM are reviews written by ILXors anyway (not mine - Mark's, Jess's, Dominique's, Philip's etc.)

― Tim F, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm surprised nobody has drawn the obvious di comparisons yet

― rio natsume, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

DI?
http://www.midi-classics.com/i/p30660.jpg

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

DI?
http://myspace-374.vo.llnwd.net/00806/47/38/806988374_thumb1.jpg

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

i mean much of it sounds alot like "a night on the tiles" (is that the one i mean? the swing jazz loop one (art of actual forgetfulness)) but with beach boys vocals, and the whole samples as narrative vehicle thing that ian crause used to talk about is kind of implicit (though i haven't listened/cranked it hard enough yet to notice). xp.

― rio natsume, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

nice

― blueski, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm surprised nobody has drawn the obvious di comparisons yet

I've been thinking more that this was the type of album that an indie type would create because the Avalanches hadn't released a second album.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

the beach boys vibe/aura puts me in mind of wild honey or friends more than the stone cold Brian classics like Pet Sounds; for me, it's the first BB-flavoured modern alb that comes anywhere near to matching the vocals/songwriting/vibe of the post-Smile recs, and the mantras and repetitions and samples evoke devotional sunshine bliss w/out being explicitly 'religious' - v clever and beautiful

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 5 April 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

The cover. Really. My fave album cover of 2007.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Thursday, 12 April 2007 10:15 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

I like this live download thing more than Person Pitch. More beats!

― mizzell, Thursday, 7 June 2007 01:37 (sixteen years ago) link

what live download thing? (this is my album of the year so far btw)

― braveclub, Thursday, 7 June 2007 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link

Paw Tracks is selling a live show from 2004 on itunes. it's got a couple of the songs from PP and two other ones. It's shorter than the album.

― mizzell, Thursday, 7 June 2007 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

I had a spell of loving this...then not listening to ages. I waited to get the vinyl and finally scored it last week...it's blowing me away more than it ever did.

I suffer from sleep difficulties, I average 4ish hours per night...when I go into work at 9am with the first three tracks off Person Pitch on my headphones, I feel like I could wrestle an elephant and win.

― Mister Craig, Thursday, 5 July 2007 00:42 (sixteen years ago) link

does the vinyl sound as trebly/tinny as the cd? or is that his "aesthetic?" the Jane <i>Berserker</i> cd sounds the same way. i was thinking of buying the vinyl...

― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 5 July 2007 02:43 (sixteen years ago) link

er, i mean Berserker

― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 5 July 2007 02:44 (sixteen years ago) link

where can one find the vinyl?

― Preview of the Matrix 12, Sunday, 8 July 2007 01:13 (sixteen years ago) link

here

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 8 July 2007 01:24 (sixteen years ago) link

oh.

― Preview of the Matrix 12, Sunday, 8 July 2007 01:44 (sixteen years ago) link

i find track 3 on the "people ep" to be weirdly melancholy, even if it does sound like a chorus of deaf horses.

― the next grozart, Sunday, 8 July 2007 02:40 (sixteen years ago) link

five months pass...

album of the year?

― Moka, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 05:22 (sixteen years ago) link

If you wish it, it is no dream.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 09:08 (sixteen years ago) link

I agree with everything Ned says on this thread.

― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 09:15 (sixteen years ago) link

thrilling revive.

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 18 December 2007 09:18 (sixteen years ago) link

I agree with Ned aussi.

― W4LTER, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 09:26 (sixteen years ago) link

but I can't shake the notion that in the end, it's little more than the musical equivalent of a magic-eye picture

Fandango otm here.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 09:41 (sixteen years ago) link

No. 1? Hm.

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 18 December 2007 10:14 (sixteen years ago) link

This is an ambient record. Or, that's how I treat it.

― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 10:16 (sixteen years ago) link

Mainly because of the sonics.

― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 10:20 (sixteen years ago) link

^i try to do this but then he sings. this is why "i'm not" kills every other song on the record.

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 18 December 2007 10:25 (sixteen years ago) link

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