Panda Bear- Person Pitch

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

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

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

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.

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.

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...

er, i mean Berserker

where can one find the vinyl?

here

oh.

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

album of the year?

If you wish it, it is no dream.

I agree with everything Ned says on this thread.

thrilling revive.

I agree with Ned aussi.

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.

No. 1? Hm.

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

Mainly because of the sonics.

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

this is why i'm not

OMG NUBMER ONE PITCHFORK MOKA U RA RITE BCAUSE PITCKROFK IS NEVER RONG

moka = scottpl

Aha!

I'm surprised that this would be PF's number one. I really like it but always saw it as a low-profile distraction, whereas these lists seem to usually go for the big statements.

told you.

on other things... Fact Magazine's Top 100 songs of 2007 is way better than pitchfork's:

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/da/66290

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 (12 hours ago) Link

is this a criticism? cuz anything that can manage to be the musical equivalent of a magic-eye picture is, putting aside whether it is enjoyable or good or whatever, at least interesting.

think this is more interesting than a stereogram but agree that it's an ambient album and that 'i'm not' is probably the highlight but could do with some strings

xpost I don't think magic eye pictures deserve acclaim. I think they are shticky and just because you can cross your eyes to see the picture doesn't mean that that picture is a work of art. Goodie, you can decipher the Panda Bear album. But that doesn't make it any good.

i don't know, i think this album is fucking great. i hardly think it relies on any "shticky" gimmicks, rather, it's a pretty sonically adventurous album that has a ton of layers that reveal themselves pretty generously with each play. as a lot of its positive reviews have already stated (better than i can), it does a fucking excellent job of synthesizing some really great pop melodies with a lot of sonic experimentation (more than you'll find in most of this year's acclaimed indie records) and pretty brilliantly juxtaposes a ton of interesting influences - dub, psychedelia, 60s pop, ambient music, electronic music, etc. i don't want to sound like press release here and i also don't want to just say "good influences = good music", but this album is pretty fucking cool and i'm very happy it's getting all the acclaim it is.

magic eye posters look all squiggly and nondescript at first glance. it is only through concentration and crossing your eyes that something emerges.

Besides, what's so cryptic about this album? The melodies are obvious, most of the lyrics are easy to understand. It's fun to listen to.

ya i dont get what the secret picture is here. most of the songs are pretty hooky.

It's more like putting shit in your ears, waiting for it to harden, then forcefully extracting the hardened shit from your ears.

lol

I thought I loved this record, but now that Pitchfork loves it I'm not so sure...

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/61NZPNFHCFL._SS500_.jpg

http://cache.idolator.com/assets/resources/2007/03/ryan.jpg

How many people who like this have heard "Here Comes the Indian"?

That album is good and this album less so but when you say it like that it sounds all indie dick comparing.

If you want a shit gimmick/musical magic eye/whatever, Pullhair Rubeye is your man. Eeurgh.

Panda Bear is the auditory equivalent to the physical experience of putting your hand in a blender. It hurts immediately, cause it's hard to shove the top of the blender on when your hand is still attached to your arm. Then around the third track, it becomes more painful when you turn the blender on and your fingers get sliced to ribbons. By the fifth track, the gutted finger smoothie becomes pretentious.

i dont like this album much either but this guy mordechai seriously loves my chemical romance and hanna montana so like dont listen to him.

Yeah I guess if you liked those you probably wouldn't like this.

If you want a shit gimmick/musical magic eye/whatever, Pullhair Rubeye is your man. Eeurgh.

OTM - that record was fucking ridiculous, in a bad way. Panda Bear also fucking ridiculous, but in a good way. Also, since it hasn't been said - the smoothie analogy above is terrible.

^^^yes. reverend's forceful extraction of hardened shit >>>>>>>>>>> mordechai's finger smoothie