New Music Friday: Panda Bear – Buoys

Panda Bear has put out his latest solo record Buoys today on New Music Friday, check it out below via Spotify.

It’s Noah Lennox’s, one of the founding members of Animal Collective, full-length follow up to 2015’s Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper, and the later vinyl-only EP A Day With The Homies. On it, Live4ever said he has ‘opened another insight into his soul. He’s left us no clearer, but emotionally fulfilled‘:

“The gentle, spindly acoustic guitar sound is the only permanent setting across the nine songs, so tonally it’s more of a piece than an album. Indeed, Lennox himself admits he was looking to find a single vocal take and then add Auto-Tune effects afterwards. It’s melodically straight-forward, although every now and again something stands out, the highlight being the gorgeous chorus on Token.”

“Thematically and lyrically, in his own obtuse way Lennox is addressing the present-day climate and the problems younger generations will inherit. The title is a metaphor for human emotion, being both the definition of humanity but also ever so slightly repressed, floating primarily beneath the surface.”