★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare Handling the Pressure For indie-rock fans, especially those with a fondness for polyrhythms, Panda Bear is the boss and 2007's Person Pitch is practically the Bible. Despite a mountain of anticipation Noah Lennox, founding member of fellow polyrhythmatists Animal Collective, managed to knock it out of the park on Tomboy...
- www.mxdwn.com
2011-07-11
★★★★★
Tomboy's an ambitious work that finds its power and grandiosity in the slightest moments - an album that demands headphones, yet equally compels to crank the stereo. Like the intricate raves that have come to characterize Animal Collective's jams, Noah Lennox's fourth solo album thrives on nuances...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2011-05-23
★★★★★
The fourth solo album from Animal Collective's Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear) is a densely produced, intricately textured set of droning ambient-pop with a heavily reverbed sound combining woozy synth and heavily treated guitar sounds with Lennox's soaring tenor and heavenly layered harmonies.
- kexp.org
2011-05-11
★★★★★
Panda Bear Tomboy (Mistletone/Inertia) Love him or hate him, it's likely Noah Lennox won't bat a lash either way. Raising a family in Portugal while issuing musical sermons like some blissful mystic, the man best known as Panda Bear delves ever deeply into his own experimentation, even as his regular band -- Animal Collective -- seeps further into the collective consciousness...
- www.thevine.com.au
2011-05-06
★★★★★
Available on: Paw Tracks CD/LP/digital Panda Bear's career, both as a solo artist and a member of Animal Collective, has always been something of a balancing act - one that involves combining a penchant for obtuse, electronic experimentation with an obvious love of lush, '60s-tinged pop. It's a difficult trick that, in both guises, when executed well, has produced some genuinely brilliant work, but has resulted in a fair few misfires over the years too...
- www.factmag.com
2011-05-05
★★★★★
While at Boston University, Noah Lennox decided to study religion because he was interested in "the concept of God." The second Panda Bear record, Young Prayer, was a deeply personal collection of bare acoustic songs, made as a gift to Lennox's terminal father. Exploring the immediacy of death and the strength of familial bond, Prayer was full of big questions and bigger wishes; the birth of a key transition that continued with Panda Bear's breakthrough, Person Pitch...
- filtermagazine.com
2011-05-05
★★★★★
The fourth solo album as Panda Bear by Animal Collective's Noah Lennox is an amazingly immersive listen. You just have to get your head around all the contradictions. The disc manages to be densely layered and lush and still nakedly minimal. It's packed with sweet, memorable melodies, but rarely allows any of them to emerge as a traditional hook or chorus. It sounds very electronic and is lushly produced, but still feels intimate and homemade...
- nowtoronto.com
2011-05-02
★★★★★
Calling Tomboy a much-anticipated release would be like describing Charlie Sheen as a fellow in need of a warm camomile and a good night's sleep. Rabid speculation has surrounded Noah Lennox's third solo album ever since its announcement way back in May last year. But it wasn't just the Animal Collective hardcore trying to hunt down illicit promos and bootlegs ahead of time. (One of the nutters tried to get in touch with me the other day; I mean, who the fuck am I? How do they know?...
- thequietus.com
2011-05-02
★★★★★
Animal Collective's Noah Lennox is a rare breed of artist who makes music inspired by his record collection, and isn't afraid to show it. Paying homage to what presumably must have been years locked away in his bedroom listening to quality albums, Tomboy is a record, which, not only pays tribute to these influences, but betters them...
- www.state.ie
2011-04-28
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